ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Popol Vuh, Carbon-14, Atomic Number
Document Summary
Mapping (edm) lasers measure how long and high something is. Stratigraphy digging in squares using metric system, the study of deposition and the relationships of these squares (strata), what is lower is older and what is higher is newer. Law of superposition the strata at the bottom of a stratigraphic profile are older than the strata located at the top. Artifacts portable objects created or modified by human behavior. Ecofacts non-artifactual evidence that has not been technologically altered and has cultural relevance. Provenience the three dimensional location of an artifact, how artifacts are associated within one another. Archaeological context burying things underground, like a time machine with ancient and sacred things. Chronological context the earliest time the event may have happened taking the lateset artifact and dating it like that. Use context asks the question "what was it used for?" Spatial context asks the question "how does this item relate to other items just like it, everywhere?"
