Exam 1 Notes on Archaeology PDF
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These notes cover a review for Exam 1 on basic introductory Archaeology, outlining key topics, and methods. The content touches upon different aspects of archaeology, including cultural anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and the impact of colonialism. The document also discusses various approaches to archaeology, including pseudoarchaeology and the concept of treasure hunting.
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[Review for Exam 1 covering basic intro to Archaeology] =================================================================== [Content 1 and 2] Around 50 questions 2 false From Archaeology to Pseudology Key topics for the use of exam ### Fields of anthro and how it applied - - - - - -...
[Review for Exam 1 covering basic intro to Archaeology] =================================================================== [Content 1 and 2] Around 50 questions 2 false From Archaeology to Pseudology Key topics for the use of exam ### Fields of anthro and how it applied - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sex Age Stature Appearance Diet Health Death Relatedness Status --------------------------------------------- ---------------- ----------------- ------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Easily identify by the pelvis of the gender Based on teeth Length of bones Just the skeleton and muscles bones or fossils, look at someone\'s teeth and see what kind of things they eat, chewed death, how many teeth, how many disease, how many cavities cause of death, fractured head or did it heal, injuries that cause them to die DNA how people were buried, position in life, how they treated in death extract different chemicals such is asymptote from the bones Arthritis errors in the chest - - - - - ### How anthro started/ lingering effects of colonialism - - ### Anthro def-humans, holism, and cultural relativism - - - - - - - participant observation - - - ### ethnography vs ethnology - - - - - - ### egalitarian vs hierarchical cultures - - - - ### Snead is one of the two articles - - - - - ### Trigger 2 alternative archaeologies - - - - - - - - - - ### Pseudoarchaeology - - - - - - - - Treasure Lectures ================= Content 3 ### Lost treasures treasure hunting we all collect - - - - - - ### capitalism = everything's for sale? - ### looting - objects, ownership, is it looting if it's your own stuff? - ### contradictions in our democratic capitalistic, "freedom" oriented country - ### key aspects of an ethical collecting strategy - Field/Lab methods ================= content 4 **Focus has long been on big sites** ### 3 ways we find sites that aren't obvious - - - - - - - ### my prison example of geophysics - - Why do we dig? - why we screen and dig in levels - - - vertical vs horizontal excavations - - artifact vs ecofact - - - - - - ### relative vs absolute dating methods: using stratigraphy and radiometric dating [Relative dating] - Stratigraphy - - - - - [Absolute dating] - Radioactive decay - - - - -
