ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorothy Garrod, Great Zimbabwe, Ian Hodder
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Representations of a thing, an idea, or a characteristic. 2 boys (10-12 years old) buried with 10,500 ivory beads, 30 fox teeth and mammoth bone spears. They were well-respected members of their social group. Well looked after by the people they lived with. Sense of self, each handprint differs from individual to individual, each is unique, this is how they differed from each other. Carved mammoth bone from hohls fel cave has been interpreted as flute, dating 42,000 years ago. Ways of organizing our assumptions/evidence about the human past. Like most scholarship, archaeology has lots of intellectual baggage. Ethnography considered a useful starting point got archaeologists hoping to understand ways of life and material cultures of prehistoric peoples. 19th century ethnographer lewis henry morgan assumed that there was only one path for human evolution and all societies had gone through similar stages.
