Archaeology Test #2

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.

Reflects how ancient peoples perceived and used these places, which can be cemeteries, hunting camps, battlefields, and so on.

When the site represents the behavioral context of the same group of people

The things people made and used and that have by various processes become part of the archaeological record.

The things people made and used and that have by various processes become part of the archaeological record. Portable evidence of human activities.

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.

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.

A nodule of stone from which a tool detaches flakes by the application of a force

Method of stone tool making in which a nucleus of stone is struck in order to remove stone flakes

Waste. Could be stone waste chips from tools.

Tool used in the production of stone tools

When relatively small flakes are removed from larger flakes byt he application of pressure

An area where people conducted an activity, whose archaeological manifestation is a feature

The processes by which archaeological sites come into existence

1.) loss, 2.) discard, 3.) caching 4.) abandonmentdiscard is the most significant.