If you are analyzing a collection of artifacts of one or several classes of materials (stone tools, ceramics, bones) that comes from a defined context such as a site, feature, or stratum, you are analyzing a(n)
a. component.
b. assemblage.
c. phase.
d. period.
e. scatter
Question 2
Which of the following is not true of archaeological phases?
a. They are defined by temporal types.
b. They are blocks of time characterized by one or more distinctive artifact types.
c. They further divide and refine archaeological periods.
d. They are not practicable units of archaeological study.
e. They are defined by temporal types that show patterned changes over time.
Kara Walker, Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On).
Midstream collection kit.
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