ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bamyan, Taphonomy, Mudbrick

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Link between lecture and readings- textbook is the basics and guideline. understan d the history and people in archaeology. - understand how archaeologists frame archaeological concepts differently. Translate texts in your own language, pay attention to names and themes. Remember name and approximetly when he lived and his school of thought and important things he said. (different theoretical schools) Keep the terms for different schools of thought- post processtual (example) Think of themes when you read certain readings. Link things from beginning of the semester to the end. (selective reading) Broader understanding, be able to frame things and how other people frame things. Came out of processtualist archaeology and things that were not working in it. Hypothetical deductive methodology and approach: very systematic and scientific, reconstructing things of ancient life. Problem: always remained the gap between the archaeological record and the hypotheses. Never possible to prove or account for every hypothesis. Binford tried to address this with middle range theory.

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