Class Slides Set 10A Special Skills Used to Study Early Humans or how to make sense out of Ch 8 of the text University of Minnesota Duluth Tim Roufs http www d umn edu cla faculty troufs anth1602 2010 2013 Other Methods of Analysis other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology microwear analysis is the study of the polishes striations and other diagnostic microscopic changes on the edges of stone teeth and other materials microwear analysis is the study of the polishes striations and other diagnostic microscopic changes on the edges of stone teeth and other materials striations scratches or grooves on the surface of a tool tooth or bone Marks on Olduvai fossil bones left experimentally cut stone tools right Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 278 National Geographic November 1985 National Geographic November 1985 Experimental archaeology Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 279 http people ku edu wbanks experimental html http www texasbeyondhistory net gault clovis html http exn ca Stories 1999 10 04 54 asp http exn ca Stories 1999 10 04 54 asp Incised stone from Tata Hungary Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 443 Antler Tool from La Marche France Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 443 Antler Tool from La Marche France People of the Earth 10th Ed p 141 other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology living floor analysis analysis of places where early human bands camped leaving behind evidence of their habitation Bed I Olduvai Gorge Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 282 The Emergence of Humankind 4th Ed Harper Row 1985 p 79 Humankind Emerging 7th Ed p 283 other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology phylogenetic analysis set of criteria for selecting traits and a methodology for using them to assess evolutionary relationships People of the Earth 10th ed Prentice Hall 2001 p 44 other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology Constructing Classifications and Interpreting Relationships Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 9th Ed p 99 Ember Ember and Peregrine Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Prentice Hall 2004 p 101 other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology relative dating methods Paleoanthropology is Heavily Interdisciplinary Understanding Humans 11th Ed p 184 relative dating methods Paleoanthropology is Heavily Interdisciplinary Understanding Humans 11th Ed p 184 seriation a relative dating method based on the assumption that any artifact or style will appear gradually increase in popularity until it reaches a peak and then progressively decrease seriation a relative dating method based on the assumption that any artifact or style will appear gradually increase in popularity until it reaches a peak and then progressively decrease relative dating tells us that something is older or younger than something else but not by how much tells us what came first and with seriation what comes next relative dating tells us that something is older or younger than something else but not by how much tells us what came first and with seriation what comes next relative dating tells us that something is older or younger than something else but not by how much tells us what came first and with seriation what comes next seriation a relative dating method based on the assumption that any artifact or style will appear gradually increase in popularity until it reaches a peak and then progressively decrease REM relative methods tell you whether something is relative dating methods older younger the same age Paleoanthropology is Heavily Interdisciplinary Understanding Humans 11th Ed p 184 Gradually being replaced in archaeological research by a quantitative method called correspondence analysis which dating achieves the same end relative methods Paleoanthropology is Heavily Interdisciplinary Understanding Humans 11th Ed p 184 seriation Relative dating method that orders artiacts into a temporal series based on their similar attributes or the frequency of these attributes 10th Ed p 190 188 Pottery types from Deh Luran Iran Source Hole Flannery and Neely Prehistory and Human Ecology Of the Deh Luran Plain An Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan Iran Ann Arbor 1969 fig 69 tombstones from Stoneham Massachusetts James Deetz Invitation to Archaeology The Natural History Press 1967 tombstones from Stoneham Massachusetts James Deetz Invitation to Archaeology The Natural History Press 1967 tombstones from Stoneham Massachusetts James Deetz Invitation to Archaeology The Natural History Press 1967 Cherub Death s Head Urn and Willow 100 Mesa Community College Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 9th Ed p 378 Pottery types from Deh Luran Iran Source Hole Flannery and Neely Prehistory and Human Ecology Of the Deh Luran Plain An Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan Iran Ann Arbor 1969 fig 69 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 9th Ed p 342 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 9th Ed p 343 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th Ed p 417 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Wild corn Teosinte Tripsacum wild pod pop variety Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 A D 0 1 000 B C 3 000 B C 5 000 B C 4 000 B C Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 100 seriation Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 Richard S Mac Neish Scientific American 1964 In the Field and Lab other methods of analysis microwear analysis living floor analysis phylogenetic analysis cladistics seriation ethnoarchaeology Multidisciplinary Study Understanding Humans 10th Ed p 178 Ethnoarcheological Studies of Kung Lifeways Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th Ed p 347 Continue on to Slide Set 11B Other Important Concepts