U69 Anthro 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Machu Picchu, Soil Ph, Kent V. Flannery
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Portable objects that owe their form to humans: features, non-portable human-made remains that cannot be removed without destroying their original form. Influenced by humans, but not necessarily made by humans. Portable objects that have cultural significance, but do not own their form to humans: corn can only be grown by human influence but still it"s form is a biological process so tech still ecofacts. That well like thing with the wall that is a feature. Bone needles and spindle whirls, - this is an artifact: rocks with the cuts - ecofact. Function: geographic location, cultural affiliation, chronological affiliation, preservation. Taphonomy: study of decay, or how organisms became part of the fossil record. In archaeology, how natural processes produce patterning in archaeological data (how cultural objects got to where they are how they would up in that specific spot) Depending on the environment types of soil, humidity: machu picchu, cahokia,
