AR246- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 72 pages long!)

• School: WLU
• Department: Archaeology and Heritage Studies
• Course: AR246
• Professor: Jonathan Haxell

Document Summary

I. e. systems in constant states of change: ever changing with time. It can only be approximated by a series of snapshots: they are deterministic. January 5, 2016: since minor variations produce different outcomes, all variables may influence all others. Volcanism produces obsidian: reconstructs past landscapes, contributes to climate reconstruction identifies human impact on landscape. January 5, 2016: ex salmon, live in river and then spend most of time in ocean and then returns to river. Understanding environmental archaeology: the environmental archaeology approach, contrast with traditional archaeology, goal of traditional archaeology was: January 5, 2016: search reconstructed behaviour for pattern, use this pattern to reconstruct rules governing, traditional view of archaeological record behaviour (culture) I. e. the sum total of evidence for human behaviour. January 5, 2016 that all biological populations must accommodate for humans, culture is the reaction to environment: not difference in morphology, difference in behaviour, we do not change structure, we change culture, most species adapt to environment.