C11

Question 1

geomorphology

Answer 1

landforms and landscapes influence ancient behavior

Question 2

Catastrophes

Answer 2

-feature important with dating
-basaltic lava flow
-ozette(covered by mud slide 1560)-preserved

Question 3

Glaciation

Answer 3

Wisconsin Glaciation
24,000-14,000 years ago

Question 4

What are concepts with geomorphology

Answer 4

Concepts such as uniformitarianism and the law of superpositions to the the formation of natural landscapes in which past human groups lived

Question 5

Glacial kame

Answer 5

glacial gravel hill
-used for native American burials
-its in Hampton hills
-Archaic 8000BC-1000BC

Question 6

Sediment sorting

Answer 6

-gravel sand, silt, clay- defines sediment size and percentage
-Parts of geomorphology
-indicates depositional environment
mix deposits-seasonal flood plane
-loam soil-farm soil

Question 7

Geomorphological processes

Answer 7

-natural forces that results in changing formation of landscape
-geological principles predicts landforms

-over use, erosion, overgrazing ,cutting trees for fuels-for human needs
-redepositions

-invasive plant, runoff water,less tree=more erosion)

Question 8

environmental archeologists

Answer 8

study human impacts on environment-building ,agriculture, management, mining,

Question 9

What is good soils

Answer 9

-soil formation is slows
-soil is formed by weathering
-Study site formation using-stratigraphy
-strata important form dating

Soil layers
top-Organic Material(O)
Top soil(A)
subsoil(B)-Cultrual material ends
weathered or decomposed rock(C)-dug way too far
bottom -solid rock(R)

dig 10cm under soil line

Question 10

Soil describes

Answer 10

color, texture, organic contents

-deposited by forces of water, wind and gravity

Question 11

Staritagraphy

Answer 11

temporal and depositional meaning of observed strata

Question 12

Law of superposition

Answer 12

top-younger
bottom-older

Question 13

reverse stratigraphy

Answer 13

-Dug out and redeposited older material on top
-structure, can collapse into layers
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Question 14

harris matrix

Answer 14

how thing relate to each other with a complicated stratigraphy based on features and time periods

Question 15

micromorphology

Answer 15

study anthropogenic sediment and how sediment are formed, under what conditions, and over what time period
-interested in living surfaces
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Question 16

Sources of evidence

Answer 16

macrobotanical
-seeds
-charred wood

microbotabical
-phytoliths
-pollen
-diatons

Archeological
-chemical residues
-tool use dint he process plants
-artistic representations

Question 17

macrobotanicals

Answer 17

cereals
-size
-resistance to drought
-resistance to pests
-easy to reproduce
-easy to process
-storable
-morphology

Question 18

Domestications

Answer 18

wild to domesticated

-break/loose seed easily to not

Question 19

phalilphs

Answer 19

particles of silica derived from he wall of cells

Question 20

ditaoms

Answer 20

unicellular algae
-fossilized algae
-have cell walls of silica rather than cellulose which survive after deaths for the algae
-solunity, nutients

Question 21

diatom frequency

Question 22

palynology

Answer 22

study of pollen
-trace environmental fluctuations over time
-hexine outer shell
-lake and peat bogs

Question 23

Archeological evidence

Answer 23

-residue anaylsis

Question 24

residue analysis

Answer 24

-done on artifacts and features
-chemical compunds in plants
-residue: protein, fatty lipids, and DNA
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Question 25

Paleobontony

Answer 25

-subsistence
-environmental conditions
diet-
trade/settlement patterns
domestication
-ideology-
status-food eaten by elites

Question 26

zoo archelogy

Answer 26

study of animal remains
faunal remain

Question 27

sources

Answer 27

-bone
-teeth
blood
-tools to hunt
-artistic representation

Question 28

subsistence and diet

Answer 28

subsistecce- the activities and materials that people use to feed themselves
diet-the food that is consumed

Question 29

mega and micro fauna

Answer 29

mega fauna
-big animals(mammoth and mastodons affected by enviormental change

microfauna
-small bone animals affects by seaonslilty an dlcimate change

-indicato species are assumption that acient animals reponds the same way as modern animals

Question 30

recoding fauna remains

Answer 30

-age
-sex
-seasonalilty
-count)bone at site(NISP(number rof individuals species)
-MNI(minumum number of individual)(how mnay animals in bone pile
-weight of bones
-meat yeild
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