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archaeology ANTH 100
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| humanity's imprint on the earth/comprised of stuff that humans have left behind | |
| artifact | objects that are made, modified and/or used by people |
| feature | non portable artifacts |
| ecofact | objects that provide info about the environmental context of human activity. Ecofacts are natural things like pollen, grains, seeds, and soil. |
| structure | complex constructed features |
| site | places where people lived or worked in the past that contain artifacts |
| archaeology | study of the material record of the human past to interpret and explain that past |
| context | allows the meanings of artifacts to be understood. based on 3 types of info: provenience, matrix and association. |
| matrix | material in which the artifact is found. ex: soil |
| provenience | discovery location described from a datum point. x, y, and z coordinates |
| taphonomy | study of the natural processes that act on organisms between the moment of death and the time of their discovery. |
| ethno-archaeology | making observations on behavior |
| expierimental archaeology | preforming expieriments in order to replicate the behavior of a past society |
| restrictions on access to basic resources rank society | society characterized by institutionalized differences in prestige but no important restrictions on access to basic resources |
| nation-state | sovereign, geographically based state that identifies itself as having distinctive national culture & historical experience |
| social complexity | number of groups & their interrelationships in a society |
| state | hierarchical, centralized form of political organization in which central government has legal monopoly over use of force; typical political organization of stratified society |
| stratified society | society characterized by formal, permanent social & economic inequality in which some people are denied access to basic resources |
| complexity | social differentiation is related to social __ |
| How do sedentism and domestication represent a change in worldview? | Land is transformed into owned territories |
| The 9300-year-old skeleton found in Washington state touched off a legal battle over the repatriation of the skeleton known as | Kennewick Man |
| Archaeologists digging at a site in southwest Asia find a series of burials that differ in size, construction, and the quantity of objects found in each. The archaeologists might conclude that the society responsible for the burials was | Stratified |
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