ANTHROP 2PC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grave Robbery, Chamber Tomb, Maeshowe
1 Feb 2016
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Early collectors, treasure hunters, looters, and detectives. The study of ancient things/knowledge of the past. All cultures are interested in understanding and explaining the past. Not just an academic or archaeological concern. Often codified, arranged, and/or documented by written text. I. e. the bible or other religious texts. Biblical scholarship and the antiquity of mankind. The church had control of info on the past and what the public got to know. Bishop james uusher calculated the first day of creation began on sunday, october 23rd, Calculated key events within the bible to develop the first known chronology of earth. During 14th 17th century europe, a more secular and scholarly interest in the past had. Expanded interest in the investigation and collecting. Perspectives on history rapidly changing in 17th 17th century. Interests in the past became increasingly secularized from religious dogma. Proliferation of empirical approaches or ideas toward understanding and explaining the past.
