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36 Cards in this Set
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Amah mutsun tribal band
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collaboration with ohlone/costanoan Indians from ano Nuevo state preserve, analysis of fire-scar dendochronology, archaeobotany, flotation, phytoliths
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Ano Nuevo state preserve
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quiroste valley cultural practices, used multiple lines of evidence including fire scar dendochronology on redwoods, sediment cores from marshlands, all suggests fires, tobacco found
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Attributes
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observable characteristics that can be isolated or defined in 2 or more states (form = 3d shape and metrics, technological = raw materials and methods employed in manufacture, include how it was made and material used, stylistic = descriptive features
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Catal hoyuk
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turkey, reed villages, mud mounds, hodder re-excavated and used it as amodel for good post-processual archaeology, reflexive methodology
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Coprolite
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fossilized feces
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Differential deposition
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ex. Sea otter bones not found at Alaskan camp even though they were decimated
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Debitage
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lithic scatters, waste made during production of tools
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Roger Echo-Hawk
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long-term view about past represented in oral tradition and myths, shouldn’t be dismissed b/c they tell about past (ex. Blamed floods on monsters
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Ellis Landing
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nels nelson excavation, old collections not written up, were they cemeteries or mounded villages? Challenges of using old collections when you had no hand in the original research
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Ethnographic analogy
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specific = how material culture was used by a specific group, then apply to another group, general = pick analogy based on similar environment and think about similar needs of people in similar environments
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Experimental archaeology
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lithic manufacture, lithic use-wear analysis, residue analysis → archaeologist does manufacturing/using of a tool to help with interpretation
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Glenn Farris
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used oral tradition at fort ross and Hudson’s bay company
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Flaked stone technology
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produced by chipping off core
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Groundstone technology
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making tools by grinding rather than percussion force
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Interface
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between two strata on feature in strata
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Ishi
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last wild Indian, style of making tools was from many groups, not just his own
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Makah cultural research center
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ozette site, presents the tribe’s own view of the past, grey whale controversy = hunted whales and wanted to do so again to revive their culture
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Market street Chinatown
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San Jose, burned in 1887 and creating good preservation, primary context, not enough funding for analysis, collections never written up (Rebecca Allen/Barbara Voss)
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Gina Michaels
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worked with ceramics from Chinatown, studied distribution and significance
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Robert Oswalt
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linguistic anthropoligist at UCB, worked with Kashaya elders and transcribed oral tradtions
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Amador county farmstead
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rural example, small population of Chinese exerting influence of chinese identity
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Angel island
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immigration station, looking at multi-ethnic groups of CA
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Palynology
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study of pollen
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Percussion
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force leaves characteristic attributes, direct = hard/soft hammer, indirect = more delicate, using a chisel
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Plan drawing
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what we did in ARF
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Pressure flaking
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having good control, detail work of lithic production, direct/indirect percussion
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Pyrodiversity practices
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Ano Nuevo state reserve
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Residue analysis
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analyze residue left in ceramics and on tools to find out what they were eating
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Albert Spaulding
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used statistics to find discovered types
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Steve Shackley
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analyzed artifacts produced by Ishi, looked at hunter-gatherer identity and their production of stone tool tenchnology
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Taphonomy
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study of transformational processes affecting organic ecofacts after death of original organisms, natural/human agents
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Types
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discovered or arbitrary
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Thad Van Buren
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Chinese overseas arch: farmstead = example of rural Chinese arch. In CA of Chinese laborers’ inter-ethnic flavor
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Elliot Blair
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survey work in Mongolia (stone monument structures), east coast, Alaska, Georgia Spanish mission (all Christian burials, shell middens, orientation of site, beads, palimpsest)
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Dave David
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Klamath reservation, OR, didn’t like CRM, hidden Klamath basin rock art with restricted access
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Interpretation at “trowel’s edge”
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Catal Hoyuk site in turkey, breaking down barrier b/w lab and field
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