ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnoarchaeology, Carl Linnaeus, Acheulean

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Dennis Sandgathe

Document Summary

Unit 1: history of archeology and world prehistory. Archeology is not paleontology: do not study exinct plants and animals. Study of past cultures through material culture remains: physical/biological anthropology. Study of human biological evoluion and human skeletal remains: cultural anthropology. What do archeologist do: site excavaions, ethnographic research. Studying current groups and their behavior (huning: lab analysis, wriing. Archaeology areas of study: classical arch (greek and roman, assyriology ( mesopotamia, palaeolithic arch (prehistoric arch, palaeoanthropology (archeologist interested in human evoluion) Archaeology specialists: zooarchaeology (fauna/animal remains, lithic analysis (stone tools, ceramic analysis ( poter, geoarcheology (geology of arch sites, palaeoethnobotany/ethnobotany (plant remains, paleoclimatology (reconstrucing past climates) Bernard de monfaucon: 1685, monk who developed ages, iron age, bronze age, stone age (3) 3 important changes in thinking: 1) extreme age of the earth. Law of uniformitarianism: natural processes that are going on today are the same ones that have been always going on.