ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: 26Th Century Bc, Nabonidus, Sonny Jurgensen
14 Oct 2016
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The study of past ways of life through material remains. Not triumphantly grasping a trophy, but rather reaching conclusions that open an entirely new vista of questions michael chazan, p. 5 is interesting, but probably nothing that gets you famous or brings you to hollywood To explain how and why cultures change or evolve in general and specific ways. Cultures tend to evolve (but not always) from simple to more complex organization. Archaeology as: a sub discipline of anthropology, history, scientific aspects. Consists of four different fields: cultural anthropology= the study of extant cultures, physical anthropology= study of human biology and their evolution including primate relatives, linguistics: the study of the origin and development of human language, archaeology. 5. 5 thousand bc, first evidence of writing or script. Archaeology as long-term history if history only dates to times with written records, it goes back to 3500 bc in some areas. Arch deals with 3 million years or so.
