ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes -Paleobotany, Zooarchaeology, Animal Testing

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

After the fieldwork (finding artifacts) a detailed analysis occurs, which could take weeks. Archaeological fieldwork produces several categories of finds and information: artifacts portable objects altered by human activity, ecofacts any of the remains of plants, animals, sediments, or other unmodified materials that result from human activity. They reconstruct the site"s environment and the resources people used. Classification: inorganic (sediments & stone); organic (plants & animals: features the immovable structures, layers, pits, and posts in the ground. Useful for understanding the distribution and organization of human activities at a site: sites and settlements set of artifacts, ecofacts and features that defines places in the landscape where activity and residence were focused. Study of how and why prehistoric remains are distributed across the landscape. Three levels of locational information: a room, structure or some kind of surface, a site or settlement, a series of sites within a larger region. Settlement includes a habitation area with 1+ houses and fireplaces.