Archaeology midterm3 part2
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- 4 units of analysis in settlement archaeology
- activity areas, households, settlements/communities, regional settlement patterns
- activity areas give info about...
- ...subsistence activities, seasonality, craft specialization
- households give info about...
- degree of sedentism, family social structure, division of labor, religion
- settlements/communities give info about...
- degree of sedentism, socio-political-economic organization, religion, social conflict
- regional settlement patterns give info about...
- population movements, socio-political-economic organization, religion, social conflict
- 2 types of trade systems
- direct acquisition, down-the-line trade
- what method is used to trace obsidian?
- energy dispersive x-ray flourescence
- what 2 methods are used to trace ceramics?
- instrumental neutron activation analysis, petrographic analysis
- 4 rules for production and use of symbols cover:
- form, placement, when it can be used, meaning
- hopewell interaction sphere
- the common set of symbols in midwestern US between 200 BC and AD 400
- 3 types of rock art
- pictographs, lichenographs, petroglyphs
- polysemous
- having multiple meanings
- things that emerged in the upper paleolithic
- wall art, art objects, decorted tools
- when was the magdalenian culture in existence?
- upper paleolithic
- structuralism
- culture is the expression of unconscious thought and reasoning
- totem
- a natural object from which a group believes itself to be descended
- shaman
- one who can contact spirit world
- bridging argumnets
- make if...then statements about hypotheses and expectations
- middle-range theory links ____ to ____
- human behavior, observable data
- middle-range theory is based on
- causal linkages
- heat-treatment
- making tool more hardy by subjecting it to heat
- core
- piece of stone that is worked
- working a stone tool
- knapping
- flutes were found on ___ and ____ projectile points
- folsom, clovis
- channel flake
- flake removed to create flute
- social status was ____ in moundville
- ascribed
- 2 axes of social patterning in moundville
- superordinate (hereditary), subordinate (age/sex)
- moundville was a...
- ...chiefdom
- at moundville, used ___ and ___ to determine how well elite ate
- faunal remains, bone chemistry
- taphonomy
- how organisms become part of archaeological record
- codices
- mayan texts on long strips of paper