ANTHROP 2PA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Main Source, Iron Age, Grave Goods
8 Mar 2019
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Some relics were deliberate constructions built to last (pyramids: others were not meant to impress the viewer but still command respect today (irrigation systems) Most arc remains are modest discarded garbage from daily activities (food, broken pottery, stone tools, etc: debris that is formed just from every day life. Extreme temps and of humidity have preserved much: so have natural disasters, volcano eruption pompeii, we are reliant on natural process to tell us about human past activity. Ecofacts study of organic and environmental remains not made by humans: study of both and how they effect one another, human bones, seeds, soils, shed light on past human activity. Indicate what inds ate or the environmental conditions they lived in. Some extend the term of artifact to include all humanly modified components of a site or landscape hearths, postholes: better described as features (non-portable objects)
