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What is Archaeology? |
The study of the unwritten record of the human past. |
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Why is it anthropology? |
Because anthropology is the study of humans. |
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What is anthropology? |
The study of humans |
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What are the 4 sub-disciplines of anthropology? |
-Cultural Anthropology -Biological Anthropology -Linguistic Anthropology -Archaeology |
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What are the goals of Archaeology? |
- Preserve evidence of the human past. - Discover & record evidence of the human past. - Describe what human life was like in the past. - Explain temporal & geographic variation in past human life. |
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What is culture? |
Non-Instictive or learned behaviors upon which humans have become dependent. |
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What's an artifact? |
An object made or shaped by human hand |
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What is a feature? |
Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. |
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What does archaeofaunal mean? |
Animal remains at an archaeological site. |
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Good conditions for preservation; |
Cold and dry |
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3 methods of Archaeological surveying |
1. Surface survey 2. Systematic Interval Testing 3. Deep testing |
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How does relative dating work? |
This is older than that. No dates. |
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How does stratigraphic testing work? |
Telling the age by looking at it's location in the layers of the ground. Gives you a relative age. |
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What does denchronology date? |
Trees |
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What does denchronology require? |
Good wood and a database |
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Does fluoride dating give you specific dates? |
Heck no |
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Does typology & fossil correlation give a date? |
Nope |
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Does carbon-14 dating give a date? |
YES |
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Does argon dating give a date? |
Yes! |
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How far back can Carbon-14 dating go? |
50,000 years |
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What does Carbon-14 dating require? |
Organic matter |
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What is an analogy in archaeology? |
Knowing something is similar because of known similarities. |
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Ethnography |
The documentation of the cultural aspects of living human societies. |
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Ethnohistory |
Historical documentation of the cultural aspects of living human societies. |
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Ethnoarchaeology |
Study of the formation of the archaeological records of living human societies. |
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Ethnographic analogy |
Inferring that a pattern in the archaeological record that resembles a pattern produced by witnessed humans must have been created by some process. (Uniformitarianism) |
