Acheulian Lower Paleolithic stones, used as the blunt end of a hand axe.

Alternatives to Burial Cremation, New Era forms such as cryogenics, etc.

Archaeoastronomy The investigation of the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric
cultures (Maya, Inca, Egyptians, etc.)
Archeobotany The study of remains of plants cultivated or used by man in ancient
times
Archaeology The study of human history and prehistoric through the excavation of
sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
Artifacts something made or given shape by man. (Tool, art, etc.) CAN BE MOVED
Atlatis, Harpoons, Woomeras weapons that can be thrown or used to thrown
objects
Behistun Inscription a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in Iran
(6th Century carving)
Blombos Cave includes some of the earliest evidence of modern behaviors, bone
tools bifacial stone points, ochre pieces, and engraved bone fragments
Boc Mo A form of secondary burial originating from Asia (China)
Burial Orientation The orientation in which someone is buried Prone, Upright,
Flexed, Extended. The prone position is typically referred to an insult.
Circumscription Theory Robert Carneiro the role of warfare in state formation in
political anthropology.
Consequences of Food production Causes social classes, dependency on crops and
agriculture.
Context
Coprolite fossilized shit
Core vs. Flake core: harder stones that didnt break easily. Flake: Stones such as
obsidian that flaked away to make objects such as projectile points.
Cro Magnon a cave where skeletal remains were found. Located in France.
Dendrochronology- the science or technique of dating events, environmental
changes, and archaeological artifacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual
growth rings in timber and tree trunks.
Direct percussion a technique used to chip stone
Domestication the adaption of an animal or plant through breeding in captivity.
Early civilization cities that emerge from pre-urban culture.
Ecofacts organic material found at an archaeological site that carries significance.
Natural objects found with artifacts or features such as big horn sheep bones,
charcoal, plants, and pollen.

Features a collection of one or more contexts representing some human nonportable activity that generally has a vertical characteristic to it in relation to site
stratigraphy.
Flotation involves using water to process soil to recover artifacts.
Fossils the remains or impression of prehistoric organisms preserved in petrified
form or as a mold or cast in rock
Ground stone tools a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coursegrained tool stone, either on purpose or incidentally.
Half-life - The decay of radioactive materials
Hieratic writing of abridged hieroglyphics used by priests.
Historical Archaeology a form of archaeology dealing with places, things, and
issues from the past or present when written records and oral traditions can inform
and contextualize cultural material.
Hollywoods Archaeology
Horizontal excavation technique used for excavation
Hydraulic theory the theory that explains civilizations emergence as the result of
construction of elaborate irrigation systems, the functioning of which required fulltime managers whose control blossomed into the first governing body and elite
social class.
Indirect percussion - Uses a punch between the core and the hammer.
Irrigation the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture.
Jared Diamond an archaeologist that
Landfill composition
Long Distance Trading Theory
Material culture the physical evidence of culture in the objects and architecture
they make, or have made.
Megafauna large mammals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Neolithic the later part of the Stone Age
Oldowan the Lower Paleolithic culture of Africa, about 2-1.5 million years ago.
Homo habilis.
Otzi the iceman
Paleolithic Earliest period of the Stone Age
Phytolith a fossilized particle of plant tissue.
Piltdown Fraud the only viable technique for dating very old archaeological
material

Pseudoarcheology pseudoscience focused on the study or promotion of

archaeology in ways which do not meet the basic standards of the scientific
method.
Radiocarbon dating carbon dating
Raised fields artificial platforms of soil created to protect crops from flooding.
Relative dating the science of determining the relative order of past events
Absolute dating the process of determining an age on a specific time scale
Remote sensing the scanning of the earth by satellite or highflying aircraft in order
to obtain information about it.
Rosetta Stone found in 1799 with inscriptions of hieroglyphics, demotic characters
and Greek.
Screening the passing of excavating mixed through a metal mesh to recover
artifacts and larger ecofacts.
Seriation also called artifact sequencing, is an early scientific method of relative
dating, invented by the Egyptologist in the late 19 th century.
Silver Fox Domestication, Russian,
Sites a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved and which has been,
or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of
archaeological record.
State
Stratigraphy geological and archaeological layers that make up an archaeological
deposit.
Systematic Survey the technique of detailed examination of an area for the
purpose of recording the location and significance of archaeological resources.
Terraced Fields a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of
successively receding plat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the
purposes of more effective farming.
Transition to states
Use wear analysis method to identify the functions of artefact tools by closely
examining their working surfaces and edges.