ANTHRO 112 Study Guide - Lithic Reduction, Radiocarbon Dating, Organic Matter
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Very artifical not everyone sees everything the same own biases will decided how you classify. Manufacture: temper, how they were made, decorations, kiln used (open or closed, sourcing raw material. Know how stone breaks use the right kind of stone. Soft hammer-smaller flakes: indirect percussion-force to specific spot on platform-blades, pressure flaking retouching, finishing very small flakes. Frequency serriation: gradually style changes over time, assume that something is there just how frequently it appears. A lot of problems with this: odd ball out, things removed/ancient leaving things behind, heirlooms being passed on, what is early and what is late, things going out of style and coming back. Horiziontal markers: something is so distinct in time and space if found someplace else gives you clues about the date of things in that layer, understanding special interactions. Radiocarbon dating: organic material, amount of carbon 14 found in it, standards of devation, calibration of radiocarbon dates, sources of error!!!!
