Final Exam Flashcards
Goal: Survive
CCC Camp
What’s the history of the CCC Camp in Pertle Springs?
Civilian Conservation Camp
Authorized in Spring of 1933 as one of the first federal relief programs during the Great Depression
Administrated through the departments of Labor, Agriculture, Interior, and War.
Served in soil conservation, forestry, and construction of parks.
Unemployed men from ages 18 to 25 were organized into companies to help preserve natural resources.
CCC Camp
When were veterans allowed to be part of the CCC? And how many joined?
May 11, 1933 opportunity extended to veterans, 225,000 of whom joined.
Chapter 1
Pedestrian Survey
A walkover of the area that you are working in. Looking for above-ground evidence of historical uses of the area.
Basically, being observant of what’s on the surface.
Chapter 1
Topographic Map
A detailed map made by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that includes scale, contour lines, and latitude and longitude measurements, among many other features.
Chapter 1
Spatial Context
The relationship between a person or sensor’s location, activity, and other contextual information, such as time of day and proximity to other people or objects.
Chapter 1
How is our work like the excavations in figure 1.15 and 1.14?
It’s very similar in the procedure that it occuring. In figure 1.14, they have the test site set up, buckets to fill with dirt, and people sifting through using dirt screens.
In figure 1.15, they are measuring a quartz knife with measuring tape, exactly how we measured objects within our own test sites.
Chapter 1
Why does Feder say that “finding stuff” is not the goal of archaeology?
The message he wants to get across is about understanding the past, not finding stuff that is from said past. The true goal of archaeology is about understanding the human past, and this can be done even without finding anything. In the end, it’s about what we gain, not what we find.
Chapter 2
What is archaeology?
The study of the human past, where we do research and excavate sites of the past to better understand ourselves and where we have come from.
Chapter 2
How does Feder explain archaeology as science?
He explains it is us seeing what evidence we have, see patterns or corralations, and make unbiased obsvervations of what we have found.
Chapter 2
Why is ownership of the past an issue?
Because people today could be decendents of people who used to live there or used it. They could make claims of ownership, then others could make other claims for other reasons. Quickly, it can become a messy issue of who actually owns it.
Chapter 3
Culture History
How a culture evolves through time. Involves the aggregate of past cultural activity, such as ceremony, class in practices, and the interaction with locales.
Chapter 3
Cultural Ecology
The study of the adaptation of human societies or populations to their environments.
Chapter 3
How and why can someone analyze modern garbage?
With the person’s consent, there is a comprehensible relationship betwene human behavior and the objects they made, used, and discarded. What they threw away could say a lot about them.
Chapter 4
What is an Environmental Impact Statement?
Provides a detailed analysis of the possible negative impacts of a project on historical resources within or adjacent to the project area.
Chapter 4
What are cultural resources?
Physical evidence of past human activity.
Chapter 4
What are the difficulties of fieldwork that Feder discusses that you also have faced?
I have only had to face the risk of poison ivy, the heat and sunburns, and the occassional tick bite, but nothing life threatening.
Chapter 5
What is an archaeolgoical site?
A place where people once lived or worked or where they carried out specific tasks.
Chapter 5
What’s the difference between behavioral and archaeological contexts?
Behavioral context: Reflects how ancient peoples perceived and used places.
Arachaeological context: Represents the behavioral context of a group of people.
