ANTH 102- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 69 pages long!)
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Lecture outline: course introduction and principles of archaeology: howard carter/discovery of the tomb of tutankhamun, william l. rathje/the garbage project, archaeology: images of the past, present, and future august 30, 2017. Adaptation: definition of archaeological site a place where people lived and where they left. A stratified site has multiple layers: formation of archaeological sites, catastrophic destruction and burial (pompeii) Relic hunting: analysis by trained specialists, maps and profiles, the concept of context. Lecture 01 outline: arrowhead example look at historic records to see if these tools were used. Lecture 01 outline: pleistocene a series of climate change, holocene, periods of stasis, periods of rapid change in human adaptations. The study of the human past, combining the themes of time and change. (also: the study of the material remains of human behavior. ) The human past, specifically, the time before the appearance of written records. The holistic study of humanity, of how human beings behave and how that behavior has evolved.
