CAS AR 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mount Vesuvius, Abo Blood Group System, Mound Builders

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Provide material evidence to help express / expose contemporary issue (moment: what is archaeology, systematic study of human past, based on the investigation of material culture & context, together forming archaeological records. In order to reconstruct past human activity at a site. Study of an individual, community, society, civilization by analyzing its waste: waste disposal is to u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)da(cid:455)"s life, e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)da(cid:455)"s life: at the (cid:272)o(cid:396)e of ou(cid:396) e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)(cid:272)e, ou(cid:396)sel(cid:448)es, so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) Garbology: garbage: gives us insight to, taste of all kinds, economy, belief/ritual/religion. Fundamental unit of social analysis in archaeology. Overtime growth of households (now shrinking), economic diversification, status elaboration. House as a metaphor/microcosm of society: storage, material accumulation, domesticating nature: public vs. private. Portable object whose form is modified or created by human activity. Data (ex: vessels (b nh ch a ch t l ng, artifact, ecofact, feature, site, region, depositional processes, matrix, transformation, preservation factors, bog people (n europe, ozette (nw coast us0, pompeii, italy.