CLA 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Disaster, Lascaux, Radiocarbon Dating
13 Mar 2016
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Things that were let behind didn"t/couldn"t be brought with them. Artefacts: portable objects that were modiied or made by people: tools, potery, metal weapons, jewellery etc. Can give inside to daing through carbon daing but also in structure (cruder vs detailed) Ecofacts: organic and environmental remains or ecofacts" that are not objects: texiles, animal bones, skeletons, plant remains, soils, sediments (material deposited in the earth"s surface) Features: non-portable objects, so humanly modiied parts of a site that are non-portable: hearths, postholes, storage pits, ditches, soils, sediments ect. Archaeological site: place where all these characterisics are found or where signiicant traces of human acivity can be found. Primary context: original context: matrix- soil or sediment surrounding your ind, provenience horizontal (space) and verical (ime) placement in your trench, other inds- relaion to everything in that area, other artefacts and remains. Secondary context: context distributed by humans/nature recently or in the past looing, war, disasters, weather and erosion, current use.
