ANT 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: X-Ray Fluorescence
Document Summary
Trade an exchange of property involving interpersonal interaction between two or more parties. Direct access: resource procured by the user at the natural primary source. Indirect access: trade and exchange; resource procured at the source by one group and then transferred via trade/exchange to other groups. Distance decay the further an archaeological site is from the source of a particular raw material the less of that material will be found in the site. Studies are used to fingerprint artifacts and determine their place of origin or provenance: xrf x-ray fluorescence, naa neutron activation analysis. La-icp-ms laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Settlement patterns how people used the landscape prehistorically. Archaeologically we can look at differential use of the land or environment. Settlement pattern studies try to focus on inter- and intra-site distribution, or where sites are located and where activities or artifact use was taking place within the sites.
