ARTH 227 Lecture 2: Class 2 ARTH 227
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Archaeology; the scientific study of our human past based on the surviving material remains. Facts about the past: how we know what we think we know about the past. Not an objective, unbiased reporting of facts about the past, but reflecting on/ interpreting the past, but always with the historian"s culture-bound perspectives/biases. Historiography- studies how the past is written, decontrstructing historical narratives, what is left in and out. This contextualizes historians in his own world. About reflecting, interpreting the past through the eyes of. Selective, results from equally fragmented source material. Story of the past assembled from preserved material culture (the stuff) It allows us to focus on all people. Longue dur e- the natural enviroment of the mediterranian. The sea untites, the land divides- connectivity, over land travel very difficult. African plates create major subduction zone, which italy and greece. Aegean volcanic arc rest upon: mt. Lots of little bays, harbors, easy to bring boats easily in.
