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AnthroTest1:Ch2

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What is ethnography and what method is most associated with it? • The process of researching a single culture in depth. • The written description and analysis of a single culture or society// participant observation- fieldwork, firsthand experience
What are some other methods that might be used? within culture comparisons, regional controlled comparisons, cross cultural research, historical research
How is participant observation done? firsthand experience with the people being studied
What kinds of comparative research might an anthropologist do and why? within culture, regional controlled, cross-cultural, historical--compare different people to tell you about a subject
What are the four types of evidence archaeologists and paleoanthropologists can excavate? artifacts, ecofacts, fossils, features
Why are lithics and ceramics common artifacts from the past? lithics-stone tools. ceramics- [bc they last and they are made and modified by humans]
Why is the evidence of the past fragmentary? the level of preservation/evidence is incomplete because there aren't fossil remains or complete remains of everything
How are sites found? happenstance; pedestrian survey[walking around looking for sites] and remote sensing[electric currents or pulse of energy directed into ground]
How is evidence recovered from an archaeological site? What are the goals? excavation-find every scrap of evidence in given area, recording all the points in area you found it
What is “context” and how is it important in archaeology? context-how and why the artifacts and other materials are related/record context (measurement of time and space)
How can the evidence be dated? relative dating, absolute dating(chronometric dating)
relative dating vs absolute dating r.d. -stratigraphy-study of the accumulation of different soils & sediments through time -law of superposition-younger strata will be deposited on top of older strata. -cross dating-way of using diff stratigraphic profiles to compare diff parts of a s
relative dating vs absolute dating a.d. -artifacts of known age-knowing when something was made or used to help place time period -dendrochronology-growth rings of trees -radio-carbon dating-cycle of 14C -potassium-argon dating-measures the decay of potassium isotopes into argon isotop
What are the goals of archaeological research? to provide stories about past
Created by: dixxfranks
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