ANTH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paleoethnobotany, Sewing Needle, Elman Service
31 Oct 2013
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First excavations: pompeii (1743, troy (1872-1873, valley of the kings (1922) Must put aside personal opinions: look at the facts. Artifacts only make sense in their context. This is the ultimate responsibility of archaeologists. Archaeology is not about buildings or artifacts. A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place. Transformation to something more organized, more standardized: diversity, complexity. Being able to do finer and finer work: sewing needles. Going beyond the strictly functional aspect: symbolic. It is harder and harder to distinguish between functional and symbolic. What"s important is the people behind it. Need to understand the purpose of things: understand how each artifact was used in everyday life. There are many artifacts, and each was made for a specific purpose. It"s not how, but why people did something: scythian culture. Setting can be also be important: example: *things are preserved when they are frozen in the ground*
