archaeology
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- environmental archaeology
- reconstruction of human use of plants and animals and how societies adapted to changing environments
- isostatic uplift
- land moves up when ice melts and weighs less
- tectonic movements
- movement of the plates on earth
- geomorphology
- study of form and development of landscape
- soil micromorphology
- use of microscopic technique to study nature and organization of the components of soil
- primary cultural deposits
- direct result of human presence
- secondary cultural deposits
- undergone modification, must be done by humans
- tertiary cultural deposits
- placed in primary, moved completely to a diff. place
- pollen zones
- different plant communities
- microfauna
- the remains of small animals
- macrofauna
- the remains of larger animals
- coprolites
- fossilized feces
- SET analysis
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site exploitation territory;
figuring out the maximum amount of area humans have exploited - pollen analysis
- used to understand deforestation
- subsistence
- means of survival
- meal
- what a person ate at a specific point in time
- diet
- pattern of consumption over a long period of time
- external evidence
- anything that is not an artifact