ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Proton Magnetometer, Infrared Photography
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The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior (haviland et al. , 2009:11) 3 types of material remains: environmental, remains of human activity, human remains themselves. 4. interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. 1. you must recognize things as items used by humans; items that functioned within a cultural system. 2. you must interpret how the items were used or how they functioned in a cultural system. 3. you must integrate each symbol in its proper system and environment. Artifact: any object modified by human beings, express a facet of human culture, context is important relationship both temperaly and spatial between artifacts, primary or secondary. Typology (type) a categorization of artifacts to answer specific questions about a culture. Items that become associated with a site through natural processes (give environmental information) Things that cannot be taken back to a lab for analysis they are part of the earth: moving will alter or destroy them.
