Kinship/Power
A descent system in which lineage relations are traced through a line of related females. Children belong to their mother's corporate group.
Matrilineal
Working together to care for and protect archaeological sites and artifacts for everyone’s benefit. Archaeologists should promote this SAA principal by doing research and teaching others about archaeological finds, helping to preserve history and make it accessible.
Stewardship
Animals weighing over 100 pounds
Megafauna
Founder of the field of modern underwater archaeology
George Bass
The figures are left on the natural red color of the clay, while the background is painted black. This method allowed artists to create much more detailed and realistic human figures with fine lines.
Red figure painting
A descent system in which lineage relations are traced through a line of related males. Children belong to their father's corporate group.
Patrilineal
Archaeologists should not sell or authenticate artifacts for profit. Instead, they should work with communities to prevent looting and the illegal sale of artifacts by showing that the archaeological record is a valuable and limited resource that tells our shared history.
A wave of extinctions of large animals that occurred during the last part of the Quaternary period, particularly over the last 50,000 years. This extinction event mainly affected mammals over 100 pounds and happened around the world, but especially in the Americas, Australia, and parts of Eurasia.
Late Quarternary Extinction
The temporary or semi-permanent structures built to support divers and equipment during excavation or conservation work on submerged archaeological sites.
Scaffolding
Ancient Greek drinking cup
One of Max Weber's types of authority that is rooted in long-standing beliefs and practices of a society. It exists and is assigned to particular individuals because of that society’s customs (inheritance or religious reasons).
Traditional Authority
Archaeologists should share their findings as soon as possible and make them freely available when they can. They should also give credit to Indigenous and descendant communities and others who contribute to their work.
Public Reporting
What is one theory about the cause of the extinction of the megafauna?
Humans are responsible!
The method of taking hundreds or thousands of overlapping photos of a site or object from multiple angles, and then using software to reconstruct a digital model
Photogrammetry
Early phase of Greek pottery design is characterized by simple, bold shapes like concentric circles, semicircles, and horizontal bands, painted with a compass and brush.
Proto-Geometric Period
A model for understanding the development of political organization in human societies developed by archaeologist Elman Service. This theory identifies four stages of socio-cultural integration.
Band-Tribe-Chiefdom-State theory
Archaeologists must be honest and open when working with others, including colleagues, lawmakers, descendant communities, and the public. They should follow all laws and work with those affected by their research to make sure the work benefits everyone involved.
Responsibility
What is one theory about the cause of the extinction of the megafauna?
Climate change is responsible! Loss of glacial ice
A Danish warship from the late 15th century, most famously associated with King Hans of Denmark. It's considered one of the best-preserved shipwrecks of the period and offers critical insights into naval architecture and maritime life at the end of the Middle Ages.
Gribshunden
Greek jug used for pouring wine
Oinochoe
This theory type of authority is based on a belief in the legitimacy of a society’s laws and rules and in the right of leaders to act under these rules to make decisions and set policy. It is a hallmark of modern democracies, where power is given to people elected by voters.
Rational-legal authority
A prosecutor and former U.S. Marine who led the investigation into the looting of the Iraq National Museum in 2003, helping to recover thousands of stolen artifacts. He later founded and heads the Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which focuses on stopping the illegal trade of cultural heritage items.
Mathew Bogdanos
This period marks a time when Greek artists moved away from the abstract shapes of the earlier Dark Ages and began to reintroduce narrative scenes, including funerals and battles, often rendered in highly stylized, geometric forms.
Geometric Period