Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lewis Binford, Cognitive Archaeology, Lithic Technology
22 Mar 2018
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List 4 natural formation processes in archaeological context after its been abandoned. 1. 3 a phase is an archaeological construct within a spatial area and limited to a certain time possible. Jone gerro and genderlithics and her critique of how men archaeologists have appropriated the whole area of lithic technology. They said it was because of male ingenuity that created all these tools. We shouldn"t assume women weren"t making stone tools in the past. Now a days it is mainly men who do it but we can"t make these simplistic relations. Rebecca goodwin, phd student at western doing research on thule sites. Inuit men usually associated with hunting tools like harpoons while women associated with needles, scraping tools etc. She"s looking into and interrogating these concepts about inuit gender and challenging these over simplistic assumptions in archaeological record. Relationship between se and reproduction in the past in context of trying to understand pottery.
