Mapping Your Living Space

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------------------------------------------------- exercise 2 Map your Living Space By Marisa Alexandra Bejarano ANT 104 Lost Tribes and Ancient Cities Professor Crissina Burke September 18, 2013 Northern Arizona university September 18, 2013 Northern Arizona university In archaeology one can only infer to what was thought to have happened in certain areas of a site. The context of which things were left is also a very important factor that plays into this inference. If my room or bottom half of my apartment were to be a part of an archaeological site say 1,000 years from now many things would be degraded, eroded, or even partially intact. Future archaeologist would have to infer on my daily activities and how I lived by the arrangement of my room as well as my artifacts/tools that I use on a day to day basis. I spend as much time as I can in my room when I can because it is just so awesome. Aside from this fact there are many things that I do in my room or “site structure”. I sleep, have laundry, read, eat, do homework at my desk, get dressed, sit on my ottoman when I put my shoes on, drink water and other substances, exercise, get ready, and well live. My site structure reflects my activities because of where my furniture is based because my room was also initially architecturally designed for this purpose of where the furniture should be located. My desk is arranged next to the window across from my bed and across from my bed to the south of the room is my dresser. This is placed this way because there is little where the wall and my bed meet therefore, allowing anything to be in that space. The ottoman is against my bed because there isn’t anywhere else it can really go and is across from my shoes. The infrastructure of how my room was designed with walls, doors, and windows also has influenced the placement of objects in my

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