AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tropical Climate, Permafrost, Experimental Archaeology
23 Jan 2018
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Archaeological record: any evidence of past human activity preserved in the crust of the earth through cultural and natural processes. Artifacts: are objects made, used, modified, discarded by people, composition of clay (date), shape (identity), decoration (beliefs) Features: human modified aspects of the site or landscape. Ecofacts: organic and environmental remains, hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) skeleto(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374) tell us a(cid:271)out a perso(cid:374)"s ide(cid:374)tity i(cid:374) life, life history, how they died and their culture. Sites: are places where artifacts, features, structures, organic and environmental remains are found together, places showing traces of past human activity. Broader regional surveys can tell us even more about the past. Archaeological context: 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, and in what site. Immediate matrix: whatever soils contact that object immediately surrounding. Provenience: vertical and horizontal location of what you found. Associations: what"s fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) the sa(cid:373)e layer or together.
