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🦴Intro to Archaeology
Key Terms

344 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Archaeology exam

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çatalhöyük
3D Scanning

A

Abandonment
Adaptive Strategies
Aeolian Deposition
Age determination techniques
Age-at-death estimation
Agricultural centers
Agricultural transition
Alluvial deposition
Amino acid racemization
Andean civilizations
Animal burrowing
Animal domestication
Anthropological Archaeology
Archaeological evidence
Archaeomagnetic dating
Artifact assemblage
Artifact association
Artifact distribution
Assemblage analysis
Assemblage study
Aztec Tribute System

B

Bantu Migrations
Barbara Bender
Behavioral archaeology
Benin Bronzes
Bering Land Bridge Migration
Biogenic strontium
Blombos Cave
Bristlecone pines
Bronze
Bronze Casting
Buffer Analysis
Burial Mounds
Butchery marks

C

Carnivore marks
Ceramic firing techniques
Ceremonial sites
Chaco Canyon
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Chronological dating
Chronological markers
Clovis Culture
Clovis Points
Colin Renfrew
Community-based conservation
Community-based participatory research
Contemporaneous assemblages
Contextual dating
Contextual Seriation
Coprolite Examination
Core sampling
Cultural Affiliations
Cultural Areas
Cultural change
Cultural distinctiveness
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolutionism
Cultural heritage preservation
Cultural layers
Cultural Materialism
Cultural Patrimony
Cultural Periods
Cultural Processes
Cultural Property Export and Import Acts
Cultural Provinces
Cultural Resource Management
Cultural Transmission
Cuneiform
Curation
Cut marks

D

Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Data loggers
Dating Range