CLAS 2P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grahame Clark, Star Carr, Ian Hodder
5 Jul 2016
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Archeologists rely on scientist to explain material. Excavations at star carr in england: botanists and zoologists join the team, invited people on excavations- such as scientists to help understand. Plant and animal material, what can they tell about this site: allowed new insights- to what people ate, such as plants and animals. The way in which archeologists ask questions and attempt to answer those questions. Looked at archeology as a science (humanistic discipline) Cultural process: process that led to the changes. Pluralistic- what questions you were going to ask instead of the answers you receive is better. Material culture doesn"t have an agenda: make sense, interpret, by using scientific method. Based on those you formulate a hypothesis (guess) If nothing over time disproves hypotheses, it creates a theory. This was done by the sites developing over time. The artifacts can be dated through each layer (each time period)
