RELIGST 2AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jodi Magness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2AB3
• Professor: Dan Machiela

Document Summary

Etymology: the study of words and their origin and meanings. Archeology comes from greek word archaos-meaning ancient-very old and logia- meaning things. Archeology means ancient things, the logical study of ancient things. Oxford english dictionary de nition of archeology: the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. For purposes of this class-replace human history with bible. Jodi magness de nition: the study of the past as evidenced by human material culture-that is, built features and artifacts such as architecture, works of art, tools, and vessels that were manufactured and used by people. Sources of artifacts: scienti cally controlled archeological digs (smart people go to site and use best scienti c way to excavate site and nd/record what is there), William flinders petrie-came up with very important observation he made the archeological layer idea. Archeology sites are in layers or in stratum (plural strata)