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A particular way of seeing and learning about past human cultures through the analysis of material remains in their temporal and spatial contexts.
What is Archaeology? (Sunseri, 1/28)
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Protects Native American remains on federal and tribal lands.
What is NAGPRA? (Sunseri, 1/28)
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The two classifications of artifact dating methodologies, one uses techniques such as seriation, while the other uses techniques such as radiocarbon dating.
What are relative and absolute dating? Sunseri, Jun. Unit 3 Lecture 1-3. 9, February 2016 - 16, February 2016.
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This excavation technique uses coring and other methods to attain strata to reveal the history of a site.
What is vertical excavation? (Excavation, David Carmichael, pg. 56)
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The study of fossilization and bone analysis.
What is taphonomy? (Sunseri, 3/1)
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Archaeology shares with this field the discipline of history and an interest in human past with a comparative analysis of human culture.
What is Anthropology? (Sunseri, 1/28)
200
The discovery of this specimen, whose tribal or ethnic origin is contested, highlights the complicated relationship between archaeologists and Native Americans.
Who is the Kennewick Man? (Sunseri, 2/2)
200
Very inaccurate for very small and very old samples, destructive method of dating, and inaccurate due to the fluctuations of C14 in the atmosphere.
What are the problems with radiocarbon dating? Michaels, George H., and Brian M. Fagan. "Exercise 1-2: Chronological Methods."Chronological Methods 8 - Radiocarbon Dating. The Regents of The University of California, 22 July 2013. Web. 9 Mar. 2016.
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The point on an archaeological site from which all measurements of level and contour are taken and is a reference point used for vertical and horizontal measurement.
What is a datum point? (Site Mapping and Interpretation, Section Activity, pg.1)
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The two ways to count animals in a site.
What are NISP and MNI? (Sunseri, 3/1)
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Humans are part of this and subject to its laws and conditions.
What is Nature? (Sunseri, 1/28)
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Name of the site where the discovery of stone spear points in 1927 demonstrated that humans had been in North America for over 10,000 years.
What is Folsom? (Sunseri, 2/4)
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Concept in geology in which younger depositions of strata lie on top of older depositions of strata.
What is the law of superposition? Michaels, George H., and Brian M. Fagan. "Exercise 1-2: Chronological Methods."Chronological Methods 3 - Superposition. The Regents of The University of California, 22 July 2013. Web. 9 Mar. 2016.
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This excavation technique uses small shovels and tools to expose objects near the surface of a site to reveal how it was used.
What is horizontal excavation? (Excavation, David Carmichael, pg. 55)
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These are the three most common items found in a site.
What are bones, ceramics, and stone tools? (Sunseri, 3/1)
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Archaeology is a way of learning about the past through the analysis of these three things.
What are artifacts, ecofacts, and features? (Sunseri, 1/28)
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A site in New York that raised the question of who owns the past, especially in relation to human remains.
What is the African Burial Ground? (Meltzer 433)
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Methodology in which a specific array of characters of an object are compared on a large time scale to show how the object differs throughout time
What is seriation? Ewen. Ewen2003_RelativeDatingCh10archsToolkit. Bcourses, 18 Jan. 2016. PDF.
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This theory uses archaeological data to explain specific issues or aspects of society instead of trying to explain how all of society operates.
What is Middle Level Theory? (Sunseri, 2/9)
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The study of animal remains in relation to anthropological questions.
What is zooarchaeology? (Sunseri, 3/1)
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This British geologist was NOT among the first to speculate that stratigraphy of his finds indicated the existence of humans with Ice-Age animals.
Who is Charles Lyell? (Sunseri, 1/28, Quiz 2)
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This policy allowed Native Americans to have input into determine the significance of archaeological sites on Federal Lands.
What is ARPA? (Quiz #2)
500
A method of absolute dating that uses subsections of trees by observing their varying ring thickness and creating a chronological timelines.
What is dendrochronology? Ewen. Ewen2003_AbsoluteDatingCh11archsToolkit. Bcourses, 18 Jan. 2016. PDF.
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This archaeologist bridged the interpretive gap between the static archaeological record and the dynamics of human behavior in the past.
Who is Lawrence Keeley? (The Functions of Paleolithic Flint Tools, Lawrence Keeley, pg. 148)
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While in New Mexico, Professor Sunseri was chasing this animal when he ran into a pole and knocked himself out.
What is a goat? (Sunseri, 3/1)