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What is ethnoarchaeology?
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The study of modern peoples to understand behaviors that created the archaeological record.
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Observing Kalinga potterss is an example of what technique?
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Ethnoarchaeology.
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What is experimental archaeology?
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The study of past technologies and activities through experimental reconstruction under controlled scientific conditions.
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What kind of experimental archaeology might one do with ceramics?
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Use different clays, firing methods, etc.
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Who is Sir John Lubbock?
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He authored "Prehistoric Time as Illustrated by Ancient Remains and Manners and Customs of Modern Savages."
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How did Lubbokck use modern peoples?
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As relics or analogs for the Stone Age.
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What kind of distortion might one get from using modern people to make inferences about ancient people?
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The people may have changed. They might not be the same people. Modern life may have influenced them.
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Describe the middle approach to ethnoarchaeology.
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Archaeologists compare societies that are the same in technological complexity, location and subsistence, and use analogy only as the first step. Hypotheses must be tested with the material record.
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Who is WJ Sollas?
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He authored "Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives." He used his interest in the Inuit people to research Paleolithic people, who lived in the same difficult climate.
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Why were aboriginals seen as poorly evolved and why is this wrong?
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They did not have complex technologies, but they did manage to survive.
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Who is Lewis Binford?
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The father of modern ethnoarchaeology.
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What did Binford see as the main approach to ethnoarchaeology?
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He encouraged using bridging arguments.
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What are bridging arguments?
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Arguments that bride observations (artifact patterning) and inference (what that patterning suggests about human behavior.
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The book "Numaniut Archaeology" was written by whom? What did this archaeologist do in his study?
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Lewis Binford. Binford lived with hunters, observed, asked questions, went on hunting trips, and studied the material signature.
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What is the material signature?
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The remains of an activity, often including (from hunting trips): different species and animal parts, gun parts, and "site furniture" (items left for a return trip). This gives an idea of what an ancient hunting camp may have looked like.
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What is the key feature of historical archaeology?
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It is archaeology of the everyday.
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What is historical archaeology in the US concerned with?
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The history of the past 500 years - colonialism.
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Whose lives does US historical archaeology look at?
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The lives of euro-American colonists and people without written recors.
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What can we learn from looking both at written records and archaeological records?
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There may be discrepancies which can reveal biases, often in the written record.
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When the Battle of Little Bighorn occur? Who was it between?
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In the 1870s, as the US pushed into the west, there were arguments over land treaties. General Custer and troops faced Native Americans.
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