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Archaeology:

Principle of Actualism: We observe actions and their effects in the present and match what we find preserved from the past to these present-day observations, inferring that the effects preserved from the past proceeded from the same causes as similar effects today. (Kehoe, pg. 83)

Artifacts: Anything that has been made, anything that is not a natural item.

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The practice of archaeology involves:

1. discovering sites of human activity in the past.
2. mapping the contour of a site 
3. laboratory examination of all the excavated material, the features, and the records 
4. comparing information from the site with anthropological and historical information, to interpret the fragmentary evidence by means of similarities to the known effects of human activities

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  Dept. of Anthropology
  Davidson College
  Box 6969
  Davidson, NC 28035 USA

  office: Chambers B12
  tel. 704-894-2035
  fax. 704-894-2842
  erlozada@davidson.edu

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