Ethnographic Study on Household Behavior

Testing on independent data such as soot and other chemical residues

Output components, behavioral-material correlates, behavioral-material-spatial correlates, and c-transforms

Considerable knowledge of extant correlates and site- and region-specific information

<p>They require very broad interests and ample analytical resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By following the ramifications and intersections of behavioral chains</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide additional specific evidence for the inferences made</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To order and extend activity hypotheses from broad categories to more specific activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By using broad categories of basic processes intersected by major classes of cultural elements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sequence of all activities in which an element participates during its 'life' within a cultural system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A chain segment is a specified portion of a given chain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It provides insights into the activities related to a specific element within a cultural system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They do not provide sufficient information or details for the analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The smallest segment of a behavioral chain is a single activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>A behavioral description of the activity, 2. The nature of the constituent human and/or non-human energy source(s), 3. The element(s) conjoined or associated with the one under consideration, 4. The time(s) and frequency of activity performance, 5. The location of activity performance, 6. The pathways created to the archaeological record by the outputs of activity performance, 7. The points at which other chains of elements integrate with or diverge from the element under consideration.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavioral chain analysis consists in part of hypothesizing and using the components of each individual activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An activity is defined as the patterned interaction between at least one energy source (human or non-human) and at least one other cultural element.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavioral chain analysis examines the pathways created to the archaeological record by the outputs of activity performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavioral chain analysis examines the points at which other chains of elements integrate with or diverge from the element under consideration.</p> Signup and view all the answers