Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnoarchaeology, Taphonomy, Uniformitarianism

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2229F/G
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Anthro 2229 lecture 12 notes lecture after midterm. Commencing lecture 6 - will continue over half after reading week. Middle level theory in archaeology: taphonomy, experimental archaeology, Middle level theory one of most important topics we will cover in this course. Everything from now on will involve different aspects from middle level theory. Paul mackkendrick"s book an unfortunate name because not true. We make inferences from artifacts and attribute meaning to them. Archaeologists must be students of human behaviours and the natural world. Most archaeological interpretations involve making a correlation between the archaeological data and some aspect of human behaviour or some natural process that could have produced the observed remains. Kelly & thomas: observation of the contemporary world provides the information necessary to infer past human behaviour and natural processes from observations on archaeological objects. We have to have some kind of understanding of human behaviour of the past and present.