What counts as archaeological evidence?

What counts as archaeological evidence?

Components of the archaeological record include: artifacts, built structures, human impact on the environment, garbage, stratigraphy, mortuary practices, plant remains, or animal remains.

Where is archaeological evidence found?

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

What is the difference between archaeological data and archaeological record?

Archaeological data consists of any material remains or evidence of material remains of human activity. Archaeological record: general term used to refer to the total data from a site or and excavation.

Why is the archaeological record rarely a direct reflection of past human behavior?

Archaeologists cannot directly observe the behavior of the ancient people, and often don’t have direct access to ancient thoughts. Instead: Archaeologists must infer (?) human behavior and ideas from the material remains that have been left behind.

Which is not an archaeological evidence?

Literature is not a part of archaeology.

Why is archaeological evidence important?

Archaeology provides us with the opportunity to learn about past cultures through the study of artifacts, animal bones and sometimes human bones. Studying these artifacts helps to provide us with some insight about what life was like for people who left behind no written record.

What is meant by archaeological?

1 : the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities. 2 : remains of the culture of a people : antiquities the archaeology of the Incas.

Why is Indiana Jones a bad archaeologist?

When Indiana Jones goes after the Ark of the Covenant, he steals the item away from a real archaeological site that experts are in the process of excavating. “True, the Nazis were trying to find the Ark of the Covenant so they could destroy the world,” archaeologist Marcello Canuto says.