ANT314H5 Lecture Notes - Archaeological Theory
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Clarke breaks up the article into 3 different parts: archaeology in denmark: consciousness ~ he refers to the invention of scientific, self-consciousness ~ 1900, critical self-consciousness ~ 1960 . Consciousness achieved when the discipline is named (in simple terms) Self-consciousness the discipline emerges and comes about as a. Critical self-consciousness the explanation, interpretation, concepts and theory becomes the central part of debate. Archaeology ~ a systematic study of evidence ~ material. ~ empirical evidence of human activity ~ analytic. ~ archaeology is done and conducted for the purpose of explanation and reason! Ontology ~ the branch of philiosphy that deals with the nature of being, existence or reality and their basic categories. In simple terms it is how the world works. It really just comes to validation and how we can make claims knowing that it is knowledge in order to convince others. Bottom layers are always older than the top layers.
