Archaeology Glossary Terms
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Archaeology glossary is a comprehensive guide which provides meanings of popular terminology used in archaeology. It is particularly a valuable source for the people who term themselves as beginners in the field of archaeology.
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Rattus Exulans
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The Taxonomic name of Pacific or Polynesian rat is called a Rattus Exulans. Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) are the smallest of the three rats closely associated with humans. The fur is brown and tail length is only slightly longer or shorter than the combined head and body length. Rattus Exulans is recognized as a predator of native insects, lizards and birds, a browser of native flora and an agricultural pest.
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reaves
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Bronze Age stone boundary walls for instance on Dartmoor England which may designate the territorial extent of individual communities
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reciprocity
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a mode of exchange in which transactions take place between individuals who are symmetrically placed i.e they exchanging as equals neither being dominant position
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reconnaissance survey
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a broad range of techniques involved in the location archaeological sites e.g recording surface artifacts and features sampling natural mineral resources
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Recurvate
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A shape that from the bottom starts wide then thins out becomes and again to distal end fish shaped profile basal edge has two smooth indents with a central excurvate bulge
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redistribution
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a mode of exchange which implies the operation some central organizing authority Goods are received or appropriated by and subsequently them sent that to other locations
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refitting
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sometimes referred to as conjoining this entails attempting put stone tools and flakes back together again provides important information on the processes involved in knapper's craft
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refutationist view
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approach which holds that science consists of theories about the empirical world, that its goal is to develop better theories, which is achieved by finding mistakes in existing theories, so that it is crucial that theories be falsifiable (vulnerable to error and open to testing). The approach, developed by Karl Popper, emphasizes the important of testability as a component of scientific theories.
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Rejects
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Preforms that because of some unsuitable flaking qualities the stone or breakage were discarded without being completed
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relative dating
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the determination of chronological sequence without recourse to a fixed time scale e.g arrangement artifacts in typological or seriation cf absolute Dating based on order
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