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Anthropology
Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Antiquaries | Collectors whose interest lie within the object itself, and the people who produced them. |
| Research Design | A proposal in which the objectives of a project are set out and strategy for recovering the relevant data is outlined |
| Ecology | A proposal in which the objectives of a project are set out and strategy for recovering the relevant data. |
| Fossil Localities | Study of living organisms |
| Taphonomy | the study of the variety of natural and behavioral processes that led me to the formation of a fossil locality. This may include traces of activity of early ancestors, as well as natural agencies such as erosion, decay and animal activities. |
| Context | the specific location in the ground of an artifact or fossil and associated acts |
| Culture | a shared way includes material products + non material products (values, beliefs, norms) that are transmitted within a particular society from generation to generation |
| Material Culture | tangible products of human society |
| Archaeological Sites | places of past human activity |
| Features | non movable artifacts or traces of past human activities |
| Ecofacts | Archaeological finds that have cultural significance |
| Survey | an examination of a particular area, region, or country to locate archaeological sites or fossil locations |
| Proton Magenetoism | A sensor that can deflect differences in soil's magnetic field caused by buried features and artifacts |
| Resistivity | measurement of varation in the electrical current |
| Aerial Photography | photographs taken in the air of archaeology sites + landscapes. Helpful to archaeologists in mapping and locating sights. |
| Datum Point | a reference point in an archaeological excavation, often some permanent feature or marker, from which all measurements come from contour level, and location are taken |
| Relative Dating | a variety of dating methods that can be used to establish the age of fossils, artifacts, or geological features relative to another |
| Law of Supraposition | states that any succession of rock layers, the lowest rocks were deposited first + upper rocks have been placed for progressively short period of time. This assumption forms the basis of stenographic dating |
| Favnal Succession | dating of fossils through the comparison of similar fossils from better dated sequences. |
| Palynology | the study of pollen grains reconstructing past environments. |
| Seriation | Relative dating method based on assumption that any particular artifact, attribute or style will appear gradually, increasing in popularity until it reaches a peak. |
| Radiocarbon dating | numerical dating technique based on the decay of the unstable isotope carbon 14. Can be used to date organic materials. |
| Potassium Argon Dating | a numerical dating method on the decay of an unstable isotope of potassium. |
| Fission-Track Dating | a numerical dating method based on decay of an unstable isotope of uranium. Used to date rocks. |
| Paleoanthropology | study of human evolution through fossils, evolution of human species. |
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