ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Issf 10 Meter Air Rifle, Taphonomy, Fluorine
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Locate archaeological sites (areas of human habitation/fossil: geological science + physics remains are found, archeology techniques. Provenience: the location of an artifact or feature within a site: archeology = study of material culture (material culture = direct reflection of (where the artifact was buried in relation to all other remains) human culture/behavior, we can"t observe ancient behavior, only the contemporary material remains of behavior, not all behavior would leave material traces, archaeologists must avoid the pompeii premise , because of intervening cultural and natural processes, the archaeological record is not usually a direct reflection of past behavior, material culture = direct reflection of past culture but archaeological record is not always a direct reflection of material culture (factors affect where remains are found + pattern of deposition, artifact: any object made or modified by people, lithics: technical name for tools made from stone (most common artifact)
