ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Elgin Marbles, Theodore Roosevelt, Temporal Bone
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Culture: learned behavior transferred from one generation to the next. Not rational, but rationalizing: how people make sense of the world they live in. Archeology: learning about past human culture through the study of the material remains left behind in a spatial and temporal context, categories. Historic: study cultures with writing: vocabulary. Artifacts: object that is created or modi ed by human interaction. Site: the accumulation of artifacts representing a place where people lived and carried out activities. Ecofacts: unmodi ed natural items brought to the site by its occupants and useful for the study of human activity: animal bones, plant remains, hints at diet, and potentially early medicine. Fieldwork: the search for archaeological sites in the landscape through survey and excavation: what to do. 1) get as much information about the area: find relevant written material on the period, interview locals. 2) survey: create a systematic search of the landscape for artifacts and sites.
