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ASB 222 Exam 1(47 questions
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2024)
In an ideal world archeology... - answer reflects
the past perfectly
Pompeii - answer -Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour
and made buildings collapse; Covered buildings
and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving
the forms of the perished people.
- Pyroclastic surge: pieces of volcanic debris that
rolled down the mountain at extremely high
speeds; what really killed people
○ Erupted August 25th
Archeological Record - answer study of past
behavior and formation processes (how
archeological records are formed)
, Dynamic and Archeological Context - answer -
Dynamic: actively being used in time period
- Archeological: things we are looking at now from
the past
Formation Processes - answer - When dynamic
context switches to archeological context
- Transform the material remnants of past behavior
- They can:
- Modify objects
- Move objects around
- Dissociate objects that were used together
- Can create spurious association between
unrelated objects
Decrease/increase quantities of objects
Depositional Processes - answer Transforms
material remnants from dynamic to archeological
context
Cultural Disturbance processes - answer Change
the materials within the archeological record itself
- EX: looting
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