ANT 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Processual Archaeology, Underwater Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
26 Sep 2017
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Pompeii supplemental reading: review all reading assignments, and particularly as they relate to blackboard assignments and lecture material. Early archaeology and context (18th century treasure hunters), Charles lyell principles of geology 19th century: uniformitarianism, stratigraphy and superposition. Lecture 3 (sep 1): science and the archaeological record. 19th century archaeology in old and new world. Anthropology and the humanities (what makes it a subject of the humanities?) Anthropology as a science (what makes it a science?: scientific method, hypothesis testing and theory building, what is a scientific theory, difficulties with the scientific approach. New archaeology aka processual archaeology: goals of new archaeology. Where do we get out hypotheses: ethnographic analogy, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology. Archaeological terminology and methods: sites, features, and artifacts, what is involved in systematic survey, what is involved in systematic excavation, spatial control (datum, excavation and destruction, context, datum, spatial control. Lecture 4 (sep 6): archaeological record and time. Material remains as reflections of the past what archaeologists study.
