ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ainu People, Apophenia, Pseudoscience
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Archaeology: focuses on people, who we were and are artifacts aren"t important. Pseudoscience: not scientific, but established as such. Fame, $, politics we want to explain the unexplainable. Hypothesis: tested until its considered verified a tentative assumption. Fluorine absorption dating relative age of mandible parts: different, but fairly modern. Early as 1914, some considered it a hoax. Timeline: dawson died in 1916, no new discoveries. Upright posture: neanderthal vs. human vs. chimp, upright posture evolved in early humans, but wasn"t known in 1912. Brain development: enlarged brain long before other human traits. C. dawson: lawyer, amateur, honorary collector, named species after himself, was very lucky. Motivation: prestige, not $, nationalism, was to be elected in royal society. History of european arrival, evidence of trade, living in early na. 10% of minnesotans said it was fake in 1963. Scandinavian community large in us, but small in minnesota (1800"s); prejudice. Viking leagues formed, promoted contributions of swedish people.
