ARCL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnocentrism, Statics, Orthogenesis
27 Mar 2018
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Arcl 203: foundational methods, material evidence, techniques of discovery, methods of analysis, evaluation of data e. *context in uences culture, but not just material circumstance: speculative era, 17th century europe: stone tools made by elves, 13th century aztecs: conquered then venerated the toltecs, 19th century usa: myth of the mound builders (the lost race of. By late 1870"s, cyrus thomas and henry schoolcraft discovered and reported that there was no physical difference between the people buried in the mounds and modern native. Scholars then and today recognized that ancestors of modern native americans were responsible for all the prehistoric mound construction in north america. Still, the public were harder to convince: the imaginary reality of race. Not biologically real, but a cultural truth of our times. Tuesday, 9 january 2018: collecting data (the key method, how to, record data and management (provenience: spatial context/ mapping) ii. periodization (major stanzas in history) iii.
