HIST 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Digital Image, Roman Citizenship, Mount Vesuvius
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Early days of development of archaeology to think about famous. Greek/roman finds and how archaeology was developing at that time. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, we started with the idea of people wanting to arrange things in order, developing typologies: stone, bronze, iron age, winckelmann. Urge to find the famous locations mentioned in classic literature: schliemann/troy, pliny the younger/pompeii. Concern with establishing when things happened, what they looked like; method of digging that establishes chronology: stratification. Thinking about how modern/contemporary events was effecting what they were looking for, finding, how they were interpreting it: unification of italy, 1860s, greek independence, crete independence; allowed evans to excavate. This is the situation until the end of the 19th century, but in the early. Incorporation of other theories and disciplines applied to archaeology, looking to anthropology, chemistry, physics to understand archaeology; t(cid:396)(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to (cid:373)ake (cid:373)odels that (cid:373)ight p(cid:396)edi(cid:272)t o(cid:396) e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)g.
