ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lara Croft, Paleobotany, Urban Design

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Archaeology is interdisciplinary: roots in americanist anthropology, connections to many of the sciences and humanities, modern archaeology is truly interdisciplinary. Archaeology as anthropology: core research questions surrounding human behaviour, the long-term past of all human societies, the study of culture. Archaeology vs. history: historians study the past of societies with written texts, archaeologists study the material past, tangible remains. Tangible remains of all sizes: study of the past though material remains at various scales. Landscape: site based, architecture, features, artifacts, microscopic remains. Other peoples garbage: can study large scale, human-land relations in past, can study architecture and ancient urban design, but most archaeologists spend much of their time digging up and analyzing old garbage. Physical objects: dating when things happened (chronology) Isotopic decay (physics: tree rings (botany/climatology, finding where things came from (sourcing, trace elements (physics, stylistic analysis (anthropology, art history)

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