ARKY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grafton Elliot Smith, Lewis H. Morgan, Stone Age
31 Oct 2018
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Herbert spencer (1820-1903) (cid:862)progress is not an a(cid:272)(cid:272)ident, (cid:271)ut a ne(cid:272)essity. It is a fa(cid:272)t of nature. (cid:863) (cid:894)1855(cid:895) Sir edward b. tylor (1832-1917) and lewis henry morgan (1818-1881: established stages through which all human societies progressed, savage, barbarians, civilization. Europe the three-age system: christian thomsen (1788-1865) Curator of national museum of copenhagen, denmark: three age system. Iron age: sequence extrapolated to all of europe and southwestern asia. Revolutions: v. gordon childe (1892-1957, heavily influenced by the marxist idea that society progresses through revolutions source of innovation and change. (technological change, neolithic revolution. Culture history: culture history, the description and chronological and spatial ordering of archaeological data, became the sole objective of archaeological research and it remained so until 1950s. Interpretation consisted primarily of description of the diet, technology, migration, and life ways of the past societies. Invention : a new idea either modifies an old idea or replaces it. May occur by accident or research: 2.
