ANP 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Silt, Stone Tool, Colluvium
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Chapter 5: behavioral context: term given to describe the behavioral meaning of objects in the culture that produced and used them. If an ancient people produced a hunting weapon, for example, a spear point, its behavioral context is that of a tool used in killing an animal in the hunt. Though archaeologists hope to discover the behavioral contexts of the objects found at archaeological sites, it isn"t always obvious or immediately evident. Non portable and spatially bound: activity area: a spatially bounded area within a place inhabited or used by people where a particular tasks or tasks were carried out. Stuff may accumulate where activities were carried out as people lose or simple dispose of material they no longer need or that is of no further use. The discarded objects become artifacts and ecofacts; together they constitute an archaeological feature: the site formation process, loss, discard, caching, abandonment, debitage: the wastage produced in stone tool making.
