ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Processual Archaeology, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Relative Dating
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Ant101 archaeology: methods for studying material culture. For quiz, questions on travis" lecture will be simple do not need to have taken notes. 3/4 questions from chapter 1 and bout 5/6 from everyone other chapter. Focus from 190 and earlier for quiz (nothing on paleoanthropology, focus on archaeological dating methods) Archaeology: study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior. *unique as it is studying the human material remains, but the central paradigm is culture. 1. reconstruct human past across time and space positioning things relative to when they occurred. - aided by nuclear dating by giving absolute times and leads into next goal. 3. explain how and why the past occurred refines the above data acquired. 4. interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. Allowed for repatriation of artifacts to natives (started the nagpra to return human remains to descendants of first nations peoples)
