23012018

Question 1

See archaeology as a system

Answer 1

• e.g. the so-called “cave people” and “river people” might be the same group of people

Question 2

Seasonality

Answer 2

• Identify season by distinctive corps, animal behaviors that can only be found during certain seasons

Question 3

*Human agency

Answer 3

• *Individuals vs society

Question 4

Bias

Answer 4

• Dominated by male, great people
  > Study in particular process
  > Should identify the bias
  > (?) Female, commoners

Question 5

Binford

Answer 5

• Bring scientific approach to archaeological studies
• Use hypotheses and test:
• e.g. Find partially burned woods within a specific site
  > Possibilities: dangers approach, cooking style
  > Cooking style: smoking > Find out what natives people doing

Question 6

Sediment archaeology

Developed in 1960s

Answer 6

• Key questions:
  1) How did people organize on landscape?
  > Mountains, river; living apart, close to each other
  2) How did they make living?
  > Fishing, hunting
  3) Political — social systems
  4) Economic interaction with the environment
• Possible smallest single unit the archaeologists look at = a single building (sometimes burial of individual)
  > Social unit in a household: family
  > A group of household: community
  > A lot of sites organizes ard each other: community spaced each other, community with neighbors
  > Several cities in a valley: kingdom or nation

Question 7

Sediment hierarchy

Answer 7

• A mind map:
  > Core in the center: city
  > 1st branch (secondary center): hamlets
  > 2nd branch from hamlets: house
• How did people interact with each other?
  > Core:
  1) governing body > collecting taxes, food
  2) trade market for economical activities
  3) some direct controls on the hamlets
  > Branches:
  1) Bring resources that the city did NOT have

Question 8

Padersdrian Survey in a jungle site

Answer 8

• Only give a small portion of lands
• Pros: work with limited resources, funding, man power, etc.
• Cons: miss some important info, even big city

Question 9

New technology (1st step: NOT cut down trees in the jungles)

Answer 9

• Small plane: laser
  > Bounce back
  > On computer: peel away buildings / things on the ground surface
  > Reveal things exist underground

Question 10

Speaker’s research focus

Answer 10

Maya cultural context in Burlee