ANTH 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Five Ws, Geoarchaeology, Petrography
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How to pass the class with flying colors: read syllabus, lectures-iclicker, read lecture outlines--huskyct for exam and quizzes, discussion sections for quizzes and explorations of ideas. Address concerns early, don"t wait until the last minutethen it"s too late. Think about the 5 ws: where (geography, when (chronology, who (culture/identity, what (define objects, why (importance) Archaeology: the study of past humans, human society through: *systematic, scientific study of the human past based on the investigation of material culture and context. *it"s imperative to know the information about an artifact, otherwise it is useless for the museum and will not benefit people. Anthropology divided into four subdisciplines: culture-society shared and socially transmitted ideas, values and perceptions, linguistics, biology, archaeology. Resistivity; finding specific material with the flow of electric current. Magnetometry; worked with magnetometers, survey landscapes searching for metals. Underground features often easier to see from air. Use fly vehicle, many sites mapped using drones.
