ANT314H5 Lecture Notes - Edward Burnett Tylor, Relative Dating
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Scandinavian archaeology /: was invented by c. j thomsen, created a relative dating technique known as seriation , thomse used the term forthistorie . Seriation ~ a relative dating method based on patterned. Changes: culture history, which dates between 1850 to 1960, during this period archarologists were focused on answering 3 questions: Where: cultural areas, its association and its 3 dimensional space. One of the earliest people to provide a definition of culture was. Edward tylor, considered to be one of the founders of social-cultural anthropology. He constructed in 1971 the definition of culture that it is: A whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and other capabilities and habits which are acquired by man. This definition is very ideational because more or less he is asserting that culture exists in the human mind and this was completely rejected by binford and the processulaists. It was sri daniel wilson who took the idea of history from.
