ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harris Matrix, Uniformitarianism, Dendrochronology
11 Mar 2019
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Examples of features are pits, walls, and ditches. the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. An artifact"s location relative to a system of spatial data collection. a group of people who have gathered based on similar goals or beliefs. The soil or physical material in which an excavation is conducted, or within which artifacts or fossils are embedded or supported. The term also refers to the surrounding deposit in which archaeological finds are situated. Originally the term described the grains in sediments or rocks that are finer than the coarsest material in the sediment or rock. Matrix is the material within which cultural debris is contained. The top rock layer and its fossils is the youngest and the bottom is the oldest. Charles lyell"s idea that geologic processes have not changed throughout.
