Posted: September 10th, 2021

The Garbage Project The fabled Garbage Project has extended its study to Southern Illinois and is interested in employing archaeological methods to reconstruct consumption patterns for residents in the Carbondale area

The Garbage Project
The fabled Garbage Project has extended its study to Southern Illinois and is
interested in employing archaeological methods to reconstruct consumption patterns for
residents in the Carbondale area. Phil Juncman, the director of the project, has selected you
to fill one of his coveted research assistantships. You are responsible for analyzing a
portion of the recently produced material record, or, in other words, the contents of two
trash cans. You will produce a report with your conclusions for Juncman. The trash cans,
that archeologists call “features,” are located next to the anthropology department. The
anthropology department is located on the Third Floor of Faner Hall, above the Museum.
The trash cans are in a display case beside Room 3438, in front of anthropology students’
lounge room. You are to conduct a detailed analysis of the features and support your
interpretations on the basis of these observations. Assume that the trash was accumulated
at a normal rate over a couple of weeks. Your report needs to fully answer the following
questions:
1. Construct a complete inventory of the artifacts visible in the profiles in features A & B.
2. Based on your inventories, discuss the range of activities represented in the two
features.
3. In each of the features, list two cases in which you are able to reconstruct which objects
were deposited first. In each of the features list two cases in which such a
reconstruction is not obvious.
4. Prepare a description of the individuals who might have produced this trash and the
location and conditions under which it may have been deposited. Your answer should
include a discussion on age, sex, and number of individuals represented. You should
also assess (when appropriate) diet, personal habits, socioeconomic status, and time of
year the trash was deposited.
5. Would you be able to make the same description you produced in number 4 if you only
had the smaller feature to examine? If not, what information would be lacking if you
could only analyze the smaller feature?
Your first paragraph should be an introduction to the project. Then you should
cover all of the above points for the assignment in a logical order. Feel free to expand
beyond these points but you must answer everything included here. End the project with a
conclusion, summarizing the results and the reasons behind them.
This project report is to be at least three pages long, typed, double-spaced, 12~point
font, and in compositional form. The margins should be no larger than one inch. You must
answer all of the above questions.

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