ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Paso De La Amada, Mesoamerican Ballgame, Pseudoscience
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Too expensive, impossible, ethical components with humans and animals. Ex: excavate a mesoamerican ballgame from 1600bc. Earliest found so far, so hypothesize that originated here. Hypothesis: the ballgame originated at paso de la amada. If the ballgame originated at pasco de la amada, then we expect it to be the earliest ball court. What kind of data would you seek out to support of falsify this hypothesis: no matter how much evidence you find to support this it can never be proven just supported. Can always find evidence of an older example: example. Hypothesis 1 : if aztalan was a mississippian colony, then mississippian- style houses will be abundant like at other miss. Hypothesis 2: if mississippians at aztalan attempted to blend in, then mississippian style houses will be scares. Falsifies hypothesis 1: modern archaeology is done to obtain specific data necessary to answer specific questions. Gone are days of excavating just to excavate: pseudoscience.
