CAS AR 101 Chapter 2: AR101 Arch. Essentials Ch2
25 Jan 2016
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Evidence: artifacts objects used, modified, or made by people, ecofacts the study of organic enviro. remains, not made by humans, can still be very revealing about many aspects of past human activity (archaeology essentials 3rd. Edition: include human skeletons, animal bones, and plant remains, but also soils and sediments (archaeology essentials 3rd. Edition: human destruction of arch. record, burials in earlier graves, rulers often destroyed monuments or erased inscriptions, burning, today: belonging to previous chiefs or monarchs (archaeology. Essentials 3rd edition: may not destroy, in some cases, it improves rate of survival, land drainage, plowing, building work, looting, etc. Natural formation processes how nature affects what survives in the. Record: inorganic materials survive far better than organic ones (archaeology essentials 3rd edition) King tut"s tomb: natural refrigeration can hold the processes of decay in check for thousands of years (archaeology essentials.
