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16 Cards in this Set
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Archaeology
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The study of the human past, combining the themes of time and change.
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Anthropology
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The study of humans, particularly their behaviors.
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Culture
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A uniquely human means of nonbiological adaptation; a repertoire of learned behaviors for coping with the physical and social environments.
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Material culture
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The relationship between artifacts and social relations.
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Artifact
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Any object or item created or modified by human action
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Ecofact
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An object, found at an archaeological site and carrying archaeological significance, but previously unhanded by humans
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Feature
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A collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity.
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Site
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The accumulation of artifacts and/or ecofacts, representing a place where people lived or carried out certain activities.
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Context
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an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record.
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Archaeological Record
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The body of material and information that survives for archaeologists to study.
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Archaeological Research Design
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Research questions and associated field procedures.
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Site Formation Processes
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The events that created and affected an archaeological site after its creation.
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Deposition
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The geological process by which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.
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Disturbance
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The changing or altering of an archaeological context by the effect(s) of an unrelated activity at a later time.
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Primary context (in situ)
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An object found where it was originally located in antiquity, not redeposited.
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Provenience
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The place of origin for archaeological materials, including location, association and context.
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