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From the Greek anthropos (human) and logia(study), the word anthropology itself tells us it is the field that seeks to understand humankind, from the beginnings millions of years ago up to the present day. Anthropology considers how people's behaviors changes over time, and how people and seemingly dissimilar cultures are different and the same.
They study human beings, particularly ancient humans and their ancestors.
A Person Who Studies Human Activity
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∙ 11y agoArcheologists hunt for evidence in the ground and anthropologists study human society. :)
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∙ 11y agohelp determine the age and historic findings like mummies and pyramids in Egypt aim 100% sure
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∙ 14y agoarchaeoligists find artifacts like skulls,bones, teeth,and after they have to brush the dust of.
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∙ 13y agoThey search for things
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How do archaeoligists interact with artifacts?
they rejoyce because of their findings and can sometimes hurt natural objects but most of the time try to preserve the items and such.
How was an artifact created?
Artifacts are created by ancient people they leave things behind before ending their civilizations and all these things are preserved and archaeoligists find them by exploring Egypt, Tikal and other ancient civilizations.
Where do archaeoligists find pottery?
Archeologists find pottery and pottery shards scattered among unearthed human settlements. Pots were used for cooking, storage, and decoration by ancient peoples. The pots and shards last for thousands of years, can be carbon dated, and reveal to the archeologists the approximate time the humans existed.
Why are greek vases valuable sorces of information to archaeologists?
All pottery is important to archaeologists, because it is one of the materials which survives hundreds or even thousands of years to be dug up today, along with stone and some metals, and in contrast to wood and cloth, which decay and only survive in very exceptional cases. Unlike stone and metal, however, pottery can inform archaeologists about daily life. Pottery is used for so much - cooking, storage, transporting goods, eating and drinking, and so much else - that is it widely used by everyone, not just elites of a society. Since it is relatively cheap and easy to create, there's an awful lot of it to be found, and archaeologists have create typologies of certain types of vessel - that is, tracking changes over time in vessel shapes - which allows them to have some idea of the chronology of a site or layer (context) where objects are found. This enables archaeologists to build up a picture of how a site may have changed over time. Painted wares can provide more accurate dating, since we know the rough dates of certain painted styles. Volumes and types of pottery can give us an idea of whether a settlement grows or shrinks over time, or if it becomes wealthier or poorer. If, for example, pottery has been imported (which we can sometimes tell by the style of pottery, or if not sometimes by chemically analysing it or looking at what minerals it contains), then this implies that the settlement has good which it has sold in exchange for these vessels and thus that it is fairly well off.
