When classes resumed the week after spring break, I had more time to work on my service learning project because I have finished my midterms and research papers the week before spring break started. When I arrived at the CSUN archaeology lab I continued to organize and catalog the geology collection into different piles. Most of the items in the collection are textbooks, Department of Water and Power reports, court cases files on L.A. County properties, and other miscellaneous items. I noticed that many of the items in the geology collection do not have any spatial relationship between them. I found old candy bars, empty toothpaste tubes, and old unpaid bills scattered all over the geology collection. Based on the theory of post processual archaeology, I hypothesized that the donor of a geology collection did not care how he organized the items inside the boxes and I believe that the donor might be a …show more content…
Post-processual archaeology is a humanistic approach that focuses on the individual person, artifact, or culture rather than explaining the human past based solely on generalizations and the use of the scientific method. Post-processual allows archaeologists to examine the human past through multiple perspectives and this theory reject processual archaeology because it uses the scientific method to understand the human past. The Ethics of Applied Anthropology section in the ANTH 302 Moodle page, has helped me understand many of the ethical issues anthropologists might face in their professional careers. While I was organizing the geology collection, I was disturbed by several of the items I found in small boxes hidden away inside a bigger box containing DWP reports. These small contained, posters, news articles and other memorabilia from the National