Archaeology
Terms
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- stratified site
- a location of large deposited or arranged rocks in horizontal layers
- archaeology
- the study of the human past through artifacts
- artifact
- any object made, modified, or used by humans
- inorganic
- material that has never been alive
- lithics
- the study of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts
- organic
- material that has once lived or is living
- stratum
- A bed or layer of sedimentary rock
- culture
- language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and other ways of life shared by a group of people
- cultural diffusion
- the process by which cultural traits are transferred from one society to another, through migration, trade, war or other contact
- cultural landscape
- A landscape that includes any change to its environment
- tel
- A large cluster of rocks, soils and ancient building materials which, over many years have formed a mound
- cultural traits
- specific features of a culture such as language, dress, religion, values, and an emphasis on family
- archaeologist
- one who studies the past using artifacts
- decompose
- to breakdown or rot