everything after the midterm up to the final Flashcards
Macchu picchu
religous and political leaders lived there
What is archaeology?
The reconstruction of past cultures from their material remains and environmental data (what behaviors might have been possible in that environment).
*what we make (material aspects of culture)
Archaeological records include?
- Physical remains of human activity
- All associated written documents/maps/photos
- All reports from previous excavations
Subfeilds of archaeology?
Historical
Archaic
What is a type of applied archeology?
Cultural resource management
Doing archaeology in advance of development projects.
*Commercial archaeology
**check an area first to make sure no human remains or artifacts there.
B.C Heritage Conservation Act
1996
What are the 4 types of evidence in archaeology?
1) Artifacts/ Belongings (anything made or modified by humans).
2) Features (artifacts that cannot be easily moved (hearth, midden, house).
3) Ecofact (botanical or animal remains that have cultural relevance. (eg) plant residue inside a pot)?
4) Cultural landscape (distinctive geographic area with cultural significance)
What is a midden?
Discreet accumulation of garbage.
distinct and separated from other sites.
(eg) shells. Indigenous would harvest clams and toss the shells in a pale (a midden)
What is art used for in archaeology?
Its used to reconstruct the beliefs of past cultures.
(eg)
pictographs—religion,
jewelry—beauty,
burials—afterlife.
What is body adornment?
People wearing jewelry because they like to.
(eg) Leo and his pukas
What are venus figurines?
-France to Siberia
-made out of stone, wood, bone
-more than 200 found
-Most are female
*celebration of fertility with the land
-supported by the sculptures being found around farming areas.
What is an archaeological site?
Geographic areas that contain evidence of past human behavior and activity.
-Base camp
-Habitation sites
-Resource processing sites
-Pictographs and petroglyphs
Difference between pictographs and petroglyphs?
Pictographs: Drawing on stone
Petroglyphs: Carving on stone
How are archaeological sites found? (First phase)
First phase:
-Historical information
-Chance
-Anomalies in landscape
-Soil marks
(clam gardens in gulf islands)
How are archaeological sites found? (second phase)
Second phase:
-Ground penetrating radar (using a machine that uses radar signals to see if something is below the soil and if its been disturbed)
-Test pits (layer by layer in a 1 meter pit)
Context?
The relationship that artifacts have to each other and the situation.. something something i missed it
Dating methods?
-Dating by association: Designation of a site/ belonging or fossil association with other ecofacts/ belongings or geological features of a known age.
(eg) stratigraphy: based on the law of super position. (lower the strata = older it is)
Chronometric dating?
Dating artifacts or fossils in units of absolute time
(eg) potassium-argon dating (old sites over 200 000 thousand years old) (volcanic sediment (that is HOT) has potassium but on argon until it is COOLED).
Radio-carbon date (organic material or sites that are less than 50 000 thousand years old) C-14
radio-carbon dating
Turkeyhead artifacts (age)
1500 years ago
Name of the site at Turkeyhead?
Sitchanalth
What did people do at Turkeyhead
Where was Turkeyhead?
Willows beach
What is syntax?
The rules for the formation of phrases and sentences in a language
What is Semantics?
The literal meaning of phrases and sentences
What is Pragmatics?
The way context affects the meanings of words and phrases; language use.
Non-verbal communication
Gestures, body expressions, facial expressions
Kinesics is?
Cultural uses of body movement (includes gestures, emblems and illustrators)
What are emblems?
Hand gestures.
*stand in for words
**wave hand to represent “come here”
What are illustrators?
Requires context
*describing something
Gestures that mimics something.
Proxemics?
Cultural use of space.
Different versions of intimate space, social space, public space through cultures.
(eg) 12inch away is saved for loved ones and family.
Proxemics?
Cultural uses of space.
Haptics?
Cultural use of touch.
What are the categories of touch?
Functional: Assisting someone
Social
Friendship
Love
Sexual
What is paralanguage?
Using sounds.
sounds that accumpany our language but are not language.
Ways of communicating without words but with sounds.
Pitch, tempo, vocalization (mmhmm) gasping
Ethnolinguistics is?
The study of interdependent relationship between language and culture
transmission of cultural knowledge
categorize and makes sense of the world.
Focal vocabulary is?
a set of words describing particular domains (foci) of experiences.
Reveal what’s important to the culture
Potato’s to the Andes people because potato’s are culturally significant
What is a cultural model?
A widely shared understanding about the world that helps to shape our experience in it:
Metaphors
(eg) “time is money”
“argument is war”
Linguistic relativity principle:
Language influences the way we perceive the world.
Languages establish certain classification of reality & this shapes people perceptions of the world.
what is sociolinguistics?
THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
THROUGH EXAMINING HOW SOCIAL CATEGORIES INFLUENCE THE USE AND INTERPRETATION OF DISTINCTIVE STYLES OF SPEECH.
What is Markedness?
The hierarchical structuring of difference? some social categories are marked (gender, sex, age)
Unmarked is the norm from which others diverge, this power is masked or invisible.
Dialects definition?
Mutually intelligible variety of a language
Speech community definition?
A group that shares languages patterns