ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Cardiff Giant, Gypsum
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Standard hypothesis who these ppl were- racism, these ppl are caucasian. Men are hunters, women are gatherers, traditional. Romanticism about the primitive, japanese looking for ppl one with nature. But which past, and according to whom: political and social. Came up with hypotheses, the ainu had constant interactions with society around them in japan and russia, similar to other cultures at the time other aspects as well. They weren"t isolated hunter gatherers, they were interacting with other ppl, Recovered iron from these sites, also discovered they were smelting iron, they learned metallurgy. Preceding period ppl were also connected to japan, northern japanese pottery being traded to the south, trading pottery, economic relationships- this contradicts the strong thinking of isolation. We see north tohoku period interacting with southwestern japan. Btwn 1100 ad all pottery has been placed with japanese pottery. We found huge data that contradicted who the ainu were. New model of the ainu- look at the slides.