Evolution And History

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Challenge Issue Given the radical changes taking place in the world today, a scientific understanding of the past has never been ...

99 CHAPTER 5 Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Chapter Preview Are Human Physical and Cultural Remains Always F ...

100 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Paleoanthropology and archaeology are the anthropo- logical s ...

Recovering Cultural and Biological Remains 101 scavengers and bacteria that cause decomposition, they rarely survive long enough ...

102 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Fossilization is most apt to occur among marine ani- mals and ...

Recovering Cultural and Biological Remains 103 forests where they lived. The records are much more com- plete for primates (such ...

104 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Some remembered sliding down the hill as children, before the ...

Searching for Artifacts and Fossils 105 indicates that the earliest forms of material culture were not preserved in the archaeol ...

106 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology More obvious sites, such as the human-made mounds or tells of ...

Searching for Artifacts and Fossils 107 soil mark A stain that shows up on the surface of recently plowed fields that reveals an ...

108 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Anthropology Applied Cultural Resource Management In the Unit ...

Searching for Artifacts and Fossils 109 because a fossil is of little value unless its place in the se- quence of rocks that con ...

110 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology and metal are more resistant to decay than organic ones such ...

Sorting Out the Evidence 111 The preservation of archaeological remains is dependent upon the environment. Even before the inven ...

112 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology structure. The relationships among populations can also be tr ...

Sorting Out the Evidence 113 technology to provide a sufficient amount of material to perform these analyses. However, unless DN ...

114 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology in forensic, bioarchaeological, and paleoanthropological cont ...

Dating the Past 115 and paleoanthropologists utilize as many methods as are appropriate, given the materials available and the f ...

116 CHAPTER 5 | Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Dating Method Time Period Method’s Process Drawbacks Stratigr ...