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Let's do this activity together.
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Based from the activity, what is the significance of human material remains and artifactual evidence in interpreting culture, social, and political processes? artifactual evidence gives us a story or picture of the culture, or cultural, social, and political background from which this evidence originates.
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So we wanted to use six pieces of evidence to tell a story about events leading to the iceman's death.
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So basically, we're given artifacts and there's also the autopsy of the iceman.
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So the autopsy showed there was cerebral trauma to the head, cuts and bruises on the hands, an arrow wound in the shoulder, blood from four people, 57 carbon tattoos, and it's about 5 ,000 years old.
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So we know this was from about 5 ,000 years ago.
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And we know this was during the ice age.
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So the age of this evidence tells us from what time period this is from.
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There's blood from four people, so that tells us that other people were around.
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There is trauma and bruises to the hands and an arrow wound.
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So it sounds like this person was in a fight.
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So there could be fighting or it could have been due to war because of the evidence.
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So some artifacts we found was a copper ax, flint knife, unfinished longbows, flints, mushrooms, and 14 bow -tipped arrows.
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Some were finished, some were not.
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So here he may have been attacked while preparing for war or whatever fight this iceman was involved in because it says that the longbows were unfinished.
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So he was trying to make weapons so that he could defend himself.
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So we did find flints as well.
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So it looks like he was trying to survive on his own.
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So maybe he had been trying to survive in a cave, for example...