Hist. Arch. Fundamentals
A professional field that conducts activities, including archaeology, related to compliance with legislation aimed at conserving cultural resources.
What is cultural resource management?
An American archaeologist viewed as the founder of processual archaeology.
Who is Lewis Binford?
A purposeful marking that identifies the manufacturer, approximate time range for manufacture, and sometimes the decorative pattern of an artifact.
What is a maker’s mark?
The application of anthropological research and its results to address contemporary human problems.
What is applied anthropology?
The historical archaeologist that wrote the book “In Small Things Forgotten” and had a lengthy career that involved refining various aspects of methods in historical archaeology.
Who is James Deetz?
A relative dating method that orders artifacts based on the assumption that one cultural style slowly replaces an earlier style over time.
What is seriation?
A section of legislation that requires the government to inventory historic structures and archaeological sites and ensure that development projects consider effects on archaeological sites.
What is Section 106 of the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act?
A school of archaeological thought that emphasizes the importance of using archaeology to experience the past.
What is post-processual archaeology?
A term used in historical archaeology for referring to the width of pipe stem holes.
What is pipe stem bore diameter?
Low fired ceramics from antebellum America believed to have been made by enslaved people.
What is colono ware?
Artifacts with a primary function of functioning within the more ideological (i.e., spiritual, religious, and ideological) elements of cultures.
What is an ideotechnic artifact?
A shape on a seriation graph formed by plotted points representing, for instance, the rise in popularity of an artifact, its period of maximum popularity, and its eventual decline.
What is a battleship curve?
The online database that the state of South Dakota uses for information about archaeological sites.
What is South Dakota’s Archaeological Resources Management System (ARMS)?
An architectural style that most typifies American Renaissance buildings in the AD 1700s–1800s, contrasting with earlier medieval worldviews and architectural styles.
What is Georgian architecture?
A pattern of artifacts that involves tracing how they change throughout both space and time.
What is a diachronic artifact pattern?