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Reconstructive Essay: Archaeology As The Science Of Trash

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In many cases Archaeology is seen as the “science of trash” because we are able to reconstruct human behavior based on someone's garbage. For this assignment we were given a list of garbage items that a household had in a span of a week. This list consists of a wide range of varieties, from food garbage to garbage from electronic items. We decided to construct a table in which the list of household items were divided amongst different categories.
One of the categories we had was “ food”, which also happened to be the longest category. In this list we have, 1 lb sirloin package, 2 lb hamburger package, 2 asparagus spears, ½ lb sliced deli turkey, 1 can Planters mixed nuts, 1 bag cape cod potato chips, 1 box snyder sourdough pretzels, 1 eight …show more content…

I am pretty certain that only one person lives in this household because based off the food and household items, there seems to only be enough for one person. This list is based off one full week of someone's garbage and the items presented are not enough for more than one person and the sufficient things they need to get through the week. In this household it seems as if there is only an older female because many of the items can be seen as female oriented. Things that can be seen as females oriented is the “Time magazine”, because females are usually more attracted to magazines than males. Another good reference for why the people is a female is because of the super glue. The super glue can be connected to arts and crafts and females are usually seen to be way more crafty than males. In modern day females tend to be more and more attracted to starbucks. Males are also attracted to this coffee shop but it seems as if females have more attraction towards it. I can assume that only one female lives in the household because there is 1 lb package of starbuck french roast. 1 lb of coffee tend to not be a lot if you drink coffee everyday and by the list we can tell that she does drink coffee

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