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Archaeology
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The scientific study of material remains of artifacts based on past human life and activities.
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Prehistory
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Before history, things that occured before human record that we need archaeological data to reconstruct.
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Protohistory
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Early stages of writing dedicated to economic texts.
ie. there are 2 sheep in the field today. we sold 9 eggs. ect. |
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Relative Dating
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Not an exact number year, but gives us more of a chronological order of events.
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3 Age System
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A type of relative dating that uses the 3 ages (stone, copper, iron) to sort artifacts into to give them a general idea which order they come in and how old they are.
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Absolute Dating
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A dating system that needs scientific process, and gives an exact year the artifact comes from
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Evolution is not a straight line but a...
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Complex chain!!!
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How we study early human behaviour
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1.artefact scatters – gen. lifestyle
2. tool production – activities cognition diet 3. food remains – diet, social organization 4.idoptopic analyses – diet – bone chemistry |
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We used to say to USE tools is to be human but we later discovered to _____ tools is to be human.
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MAKE
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Oldewan Industries
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Oldest tools - banged a rock on another rock to make it sharper, used the flakes as razors.
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