ANTH 2122H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cyrus Thomas, Genesis Creation Narrative, Radiocarbon Dating
15 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Anth 2122 lecture 1: introduction and peopling if the americas. They have many names, anishnaabe, salish, inca, etc. Creationist myths, varying between cultural groups, which help to explain where they came from. Indigenous people must fit into biblical creation story. Justification of assumption indigenous peoples were uncivilized and therefore could not have created elaborate earthworks and mounds indigenous groups must have eliminated or forced out existing groups or used to be civilized, but degenerated. Social evolution or social darwinism humans progress along a fixed scale of social development based on misconstrued application of darwin"s biological evolution to human societies promoted by early anthropologists like lewis henry morgan and. Herbert spencer morgan"s stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. Evidence rules the day cyrus thomas went into his survey for the smithsonian. Institute believing mounds were made by and extinct or vanished race of mound builders.
