CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Blind, Watercolor Painting, Religious Text

• School: Boston University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: CAS AR 100
• Professor: William Saturno

Document Summary

Ruins of pergamon (an ancient greek city on the west coast of turkey) Great wall of china, watercolor by wm. View of angkor temples, cambodia, 1866: artistically recording these areas inspired people around the world to be interested. Be able to understand the relationship between objects found. Culture: the invented, taught, and learned patterns of human behavior. The extra- somatic means of adaptation of a human group. Sir edward bennett tylor culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man form his society. Culture terms: culture history, cultural process. Culture process is going further than cultural history, cultural process of how cultures develop and change: archeological culture. Archeological manifestation of actual culture: cultural area, cultural resources. Things you can see and hold, but also some intangible like literary traditions or song: cultural heritage, material culture. Material remains of the past: popular culture.