ARCA1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Evolutionism, Thomas Kuhn, Archaeological Science
31 Jul 2018
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Lecture 9: identifying and explaining ancient culture change. Culture history and culture change: culture change in archaeological record. Low, middle, high-range theories: middle range theory in more detail, cultural evolutionism, culture history as explanation, processual archaeological thought, post-processual archaeological thought. Identification of research area and site survey: excavation, artefact analysis, synthesis. Requires a precise and carefully described site chronology. More information is added all the time as excavation progresses. Culture change- how do we do this: archaeological record. Week 9 lecture: order the ar into a hierarchy of archaeological units/entities, components. Artefacts, assemblages, buildings and site features that define the material culture of a place: phases. Groups of cultural components found in particular times of a site"s occupation and are often shared between sites: regions. Regions in which things happened, usually defines by geography: culture areas. Large areas taking in several regions in which there may be similarities/connections: horizons.
