ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Electrical Resistance And Conductance, Fission Track Dating, Ethnoarchaeology
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Archaeology subfield of anthro that explains human behaviors through material remains, this sets it from other subfields. The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior (haviland et al. , 2009:11) 3 types of material remains used or modified by humans, this becomes a symbol of behavior. Environmental, natural, remains made by humans, and humans remain themselves. One naturally occurring in environment that have been modified, material remains made by humans, and human remains themselves. Everything we touch is a material remain or artifact. Four goals of archaeology: reconstruct human past across time and space down through the past, reconstruct human lifeways. Where & when: explain how and why the past occurred, interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. Widening archaeological applications: new dating techniques archaeologists (ar) were consumed on what and why it happened. In the past ar used relative dating, basic analysis of artifacts.
