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Archeology

Archeology. Can also be spelled: Archaeology. What is archeology?. Sub field of cultural anthropology Sometimes kept separate from culture & physical Search for artifacts Any object fashioned or altered by humans. Finding A Site. Aerial Photography Vegetation Patterns Soil Marks

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Archeology

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  1. Archeology Can also be spelled: Archaeology

  2. What is archeology? • Sub field of cultural anthropology • Sometimes kept separate from culture & physical • Search for artifacts • Any object fashioned or altered by humans

  3. Finding A Site • Aerial Photography • Vegetation Patterns • Soil Marks • Ethnohistorical data • Natural processes • Erosion, drought, hurricanes • Construction • Accident

  4. Aerial photography Pueblo site

  5. Aerial Photography & Vegetation Wooden walled structure

  6. What next? • Set up a grid system • Establish Datum point • CAREFULLY, excavate

  7. Stratigraphy • Items near the surface are newer than stuff further away from the surface • The deeper you go, the further back in time you go.

  8. Stratigraphy

  9. Excavation • This is a very slow process • Carefully excavate a level area about 10 centimeters at a time • Tools: Trowels – sifters – large shovel (rarely) • If you find an artifact, carefully excavate • Sometimes with a paintbrush • Watch for soil marks

  10. Soil Stains

  11. Cultural Resource Management • Government required activities • They want to do a project (highway, building), they have to see if it will impact any sites • If a site is identified, they will excavate or protect

  12. Kennewick Man • 9300 year old remains found in Washington found in 1996 • Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 • Who owns this find • Research? • Returned to tribes?

  13. Kennewick Man

  14. Embedded stone tool

  15. Wisconsin Archeology • Found along water ways • Longest running archeology publication in North America • Mammoth butchery sites • Many mounds sites • High Cliff • Aztalan (between Milwaukee and Madison)

  16. High Cliff State Park • Effigy mounds • Means they are in the shape of animals or people • Man mounds are very rare • High Cliff has: • Bear • Panther • Conical/linear

  17. Aztalan • Large settlement site 1000-1250 • Obvious social stratification • Wealthy elite/peasants • Farming: corn, beans, squash • Large platform mounds • Stockade surrounding village area • Trade ties with Cahokia (St. Louis)

  18. Our Past Digs NORTH

  19. TAKE ANTHROPOLOGYYOU GET TO DIG HOLES!

  20. The Big DIG

  21. Our Past Digs WEST

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