AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Horizontal And Vertical, Bipedalism, Mary Leakey
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Definition artifacts are objects made, used, modified, discarded by people. Composition of objects: date, vessel, source, range, contacts. Definition features are human modified aspects of the site or landscape (ex. Definition ecofacts are organic and environmental remains (ex. human remains like skeletons) The human skeleton can tell us about a person"s identity in life, their life history, how they died, their culture. Definition sites are places where artifacts, features, structures, organic and environment remains are found together. Broader regional surveys can tell us even about the past! *at catakhoyuk, a later mound was found just to the west. Archaeologists believe the eat mound was abandoned for the west mound after 8,000 bp and are working to determine why this happened. In what site: the place where an artifact/ecofact/feature is found, the material surrounding it, the layer it came from, what else, was found in the layer with it.
