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Do archaeologists study ecofacts or natural features found near a site?
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Archaeologists often do study ecofacts and natural features they find near an archaeological site. These lines of evidence can provide vital clues to what the climate may have been like in the past, what Natural Resources were available to the people how once inhabited the site and how they may have interacted with the landscape around them. One thing that is important though is to establish that this evidence is relevant to the human occupation. It is of no particular interest that there may have been a forest near a site if it held no significance to the people who lived near it. Archaeologists are not interested in the environment in a general sense, but rather the human interaction with it.
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