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Mammoth Cave National Park. Archaeology This PowerPoint was created by Amy McCray, a trained Anthropologist. You can download and use this PowerPoint for personal or classroom use. Please enjoy it, I hope it is informative and helpful in learning the basics of archaeology and what archaeologists do. Photo from my work at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Archaeologists DO NOT: Study dinosaurs. Just look for pretty or valuable objects. Just pick up artifacts. Spend all their time just digging. Buy, sell, or put a price on artifacts. Many people have the wrong idea about what archeologists do. But before we learn what they do, lets learn what they don’t do. Archeologists do not study dinosaurs, that is paleontology. We do not just look for pretty or valuable objects. Every day, seemingly boring items can tell a lot about a person or group. We don’t just pick up the artifacts we find. Archaeologists must take notes, take photographs, and make maps so that we can recreate how objects are associated or in relation to one another. The placement of items can tell us what an item may have been used for, not just what the item is. We do not spend all our time digging, that’s actually a minor part of the process—we spend most of our time analyzing artifacts. We do not buy, sell or put a price on artifacts; professional archaeologists consider this unethical. If you ask an archaeologist they will tell you what something is if they can, but they will not tell you what it’s worth.

What Is Archaeology? Archaeology is one of four sub-disciplines of Anthropology. Anthropology is the study of people and their biology and culture across space and time. Anthropology Subdisciplines: Archaeology Cultural Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology Biological or Physical Anthropology Archaeology Culture Speech & Language So what do we do? What is archeology? Well first Archeology is a sub-discipline of Anthropology. Anthropology is the study of people any place and any time. There are four sub-disciplines or branches of Anthropology: Archeology, Cultural anthropology or the study of living people, linguistic anthropology or the study of language and how it’s changed over time, and biological or physical anthropology is the study of the evolution of man. Biology of Man

What Is Archaeology? Archaeology is the systematic, scientific recovery and analysis of artifacts in order to answer questions about past human culture and behavior. Archeology is the systematic, scientific recovery and analysis of artifacts in order to answer questions about past human culture and behavior. But what do these words mean?

Archaeology Terms Systematic: A consistent way of studying anything. Science: Methods and knowledge of studying anything. Recovery/ Analysis: To collect and study artifacts. Artifact: Any item resulting from human activity. Systematic: a consistent way of studying anything. Or doing it the same way every time. Science is the methods and knowledge of studying anything. Archeologist, like any science use the scientific method. Recovery/ Analysis is to collect and study artifacts. Archeologists use several methods borrowed from other scientific fields to do this. An artifact is any item resulting from human activity whether they picked something up to use or made something. Fossils are not artifacts, they were not made by humans.

Archaeology Terms Question-based: Archaeologists study artifacts in order to answer questions about how humans lived. Archeology begins with a question. Archeology is a question-based science. Archeologists always develop a question they want answered before they do anything else. The past can be 50 years ago or 4.5 million years ago. Archeologists study artifacts of people no longer living in order to learn about how they may have lived. Culture is any learned behavior shared with others. This could be writing, making a pot, or how you relate to family.

Archaeology Specialties Prehistoric Archaeology Before writing. Historical Archaeology Document/writing assisted Classical Archaeology Greek and Roman Biblical Archaeology Underwater Archaeology Shipwrecks or anything else under water. Industrial Archaeology Industrial Revolution and other modern structures Egyptologists, Mayanists, Assyriologists Study of specific civilizations or time periods. Cultural Resource Management Management and assesment of significant cultural resources. Many archeologists go on in their training to specialize in specific times, places, or environments. The ones listed above are the few of many special interests. PowerPoint created by Amy J McCray, 2005, updated 2007.

Finding A Site Aerial Photography Vegetation Patterns Soil Marks Stories that are passed down Natural processes Erosion, drought, hurricanes Construction Accident

Aerial photography Pueblo site

Aerial Photography & Vegetation Wooden wall

What next? Set up a grid system Establish Datum point (Start Point) CAREFULLY, excavate

Stratigraphy Items near the surface are newer than stuff further away from the surface The deeper you go, the further back in time you go.

Stratigraphy

Excavation This is a very slow process Carefully excavate a level area about 10 centimeters at a time Tools: Trowels – sifters – large shovel (rarely) If you find an artifact, carefully excavate Sometimes with a paintbrush Watch for soil marks

Soil Stains

Cultural Resource Management Government required activities They want to do a project (highway, building), they have to see if it will impact any sites If a site is identified, they will excavate or protect Who owns the find? Researchers? Government? Ancestors?

Let’s Practice

References Applegate, Darlene. “Anth 130” In-class notes. Western Kentucky University, Spring 2004. Fagan, Brian M. Archaeology: A Brief Introduction. New Jersey: Lindbriar Corp., 2003. Society for American Archaeology. 19 September 2005. <http://www.saa.org/>.

History of Archaeology The first archaeologists Antiquarians or wealthy collectors of artifacts Early Archaeology It was a combination of several other sciences concerned with the evolution of man. 1817 Danish archaeologist Christian Jurgensen Thomsen opened the National Museum of Antiquities in Copenhagen to the public. 1859 Origin of Species. Darwin publishes his book. 1920’s Archaeology became a fully fledged scientific discipline. Christian Jurgensen Thomsen The first archeologists were Antiquarians or wealthy people who collected artifacts The earliest form of archeology was a combination of several other sciences wanting to know about where man came from. In 1817 Danish archeologist Christian Jurgenson Thomsen opened the National Museum Of Antiquities in Copenhagen to the public. In 1859 Charles Darwin publishes his book, Origin of Species. By the 1920’s Archeology became a fully fledged science in its own right. Charles Darwin

Academic Goals of Archeology Culture History Sequence of events How artifacts change over time Explain why events happened. Lifeways Reconstruction Technology, subsistence, exchange, settlement, social organization, ideology, etc. Culture Process Theoretical models on lifeways. The academic goals of archeology are the reasons archeologists do what they do. This is the information that they are trying to learn. One of them is cultural history, or how, why, and when things changed over time. The second is lifeways reconstruction or what people did in the past. This could be anything from the tools they made and how they used them, how and where they decided to live, how they organized themselves socially, and what their beliefs were. The third is culture process. Over time archeologists have developed theories on how people lives by the evidence left behind. They then created models or plans, these models are applied to new discoveries. Photo from my work at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Applied Goals of Archaeology Conveying the past as it’s known through archaeology. The proper way to do archaeology. Archaeology is a profession. Public Education Museum exhibits Television shows Documentary films Public lectures, digs, or workshops. Archeologists are trying to show that we can learn about our past through archeology and that there is a proper way to do it. They also want to stress that archeology is a profession, it takes years of training and that no one should dig up or take artifacts without proper training. The other thing archeologists are trying to do is educate the public, to help teach people why our culture is important and interesting and worth saving to teach everyone. This can be done in many ways, some of which are listed.