Archaeology Test #2

Archaeology test #2

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Site
The archaeological manifestationin the present, of people performing tasks and living out their lives at some point in the past. A site is a place where the material remnants of activities and behavrios can be found.
Behavioral contexts
Reflects how ancient peoples perceived and used these places, which can be cemeteries, hunting camps, battlefields, and so on.
Archaeological context
When the site represents the behavioral context of the same group of people
Site constituents
The things people made and used and that have by various processes become part of the archaeological record.
Artifacts
The things people made and used and that have by various processes become part of the archaeological record. Portable evidence of human activities.
Ecofact
Not an artifact, but rather they were used and deposited by people in the conduct of their activities without being made into anything. Non-artifical evidence of environment/ecology.
Feature
An accumulation of material at a particular place and therefore, represents a different level of analysis than an artifact or ecofact. non-portable evidence of human activity.
Core
A nodule of stone from which a tool detaches flakes by the application of a force
Percussion flaking
Method of stone tool making in which a nucleus of stone is struck in order to remove stone flakes
Debitage
Waste. Could be stone waste chips from tools.
Hammerstone
Tool used in the production of stone tools
Pressure flaking
When relatively small flakes are removed from larger flakes byt he application of pressure
Activity area
An area where people conducted an activity, whose archaeological manifestation is a feature
Archaeological site formation
The processes by which archaeological sites come into existence
Site formation processes
1.) loss, 2.) discard, 3.) caching 4.) abandonmentdiscard is the most significant.