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Eco-fact
Eco-fact
naturally occurring artifact (ex: rock that wasn't transformed, just used as is.)
Lithic
Lithic
Stone or made of stone
Midden
Midden
An area used for trash disposal, archaeologists love this because it can tell you a lot about a society or individual
Law of superposition
Law of superposition
A physical law asserting that deeper levels of sediment or archaeological strata will naturally be older than the layers above them, lower layers will be older than higher ones.
Context
Context
The relationship that artifacts have to each other and the situation in which they are found
How do we track context?
How do we track context?
The exact spot where an artifact is found is recorded before it is removed from the location, then using that exact location we can use this method to decide how old something is when carbon dating would not work
Why is lack of biodiversity a bad thing?
Why is lack of biodiversity a bad thing?
Lacks variety, can lead to diseases that can wipe out a whole species as in the Irish Potato Famine
Ur
Ur
written history begins here about 5000 years ago, language was cuneiform. They had temples with secular kings and queens (meaning ziggurats and ruling elite were separate entities)
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