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Artifact |
Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans |
Stone, bone, metal tools, beads, pottery |
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Classical Archeology |
The brand of archeology that studies the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean such as Greece, and Rome |
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Antiquarians |
Originally someone who studied antiquities largely for the sake of the objects themselves, not to understand the people or culture that produces |
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Midden |
Refuse deposit resulting from human activities, generally consisting of sediment |
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Potsherd |
Fragment of pottery |
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Stratigraphy |
A sites physical structure by the deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers, or strate |
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Culture History |
Practiced in the early to mid twentieth century, explains difference or changes over time in artifact frequencies by posting the diffusion of ideas between neighboring culture or the migration of a people who had different mental templates for artifact styles |
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New Archeology |
An approach to archeology that arose in the 1960s emphasizing the understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method |
Procedural Archeology |
