ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudoarchaeology, Human Events
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Looters who search the ground for objects with high value and they sell them. The slack farm was one of the largest known sites that has not been looted, until it was sold out of the family. The role of an archaeologist is to preserve and learn. To understand ourselves we must understand where we came from. The motivation of archaeologists us to recover information that will increase our understanding of the past. Pseudoarchaeology wrong explanations and adding baffling explanations towards archaeological records. They do not build their accounts using evidence. Germans used it in the nazi regime to show racial superiority. Archeology is the study of human past through its material remains. Archaeological record archaeologist developed a series methods by which archeologist discover, recover, preserve, describe and analyze the remains that are found. Science concerned with gaining knowledge about the natural world by observation. Never concerned with things that cannot be observed or examined.
