ANTH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radiocarbon Dating, Nunamiut, Ian Hodder

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 240
• Professor: Cook Katherine

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Archaeology research process: background research & research design, logistics & ethics, consultation, excavation gathering data. Recording: lab/artifact processing, interpretation and further research, publish communicate findings to public, curation of collections preservation. Lecture iii: a history of archaeology in 10 sites. Thomas jefferson and the moundbuilders (1780s virginia: monticello mound, often called the first archaeological study. Although greeks and romans dabbled (excavated graves of past peoples: european settlers are intrigued by the large mounds in the landscape. Didn"t think they could have been built by native americans made up a race of very advanced moundbuilders who were killed off by the savages who remained: jefferson excavates one of the mounds layer by layer. Bones in upper layers are better preserved than those in lower realizes that lower layers were older: part of the speculative phase of archeology very biased. National museum of denmark christian jurgensen thomsen and the three age. System: collection of antiquities, concepts of evolution and progress.