Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Heinrich Schliemann, Flinders Petrie, Franz Boas
16 Apr 2014
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The refinement of excavation techniques: august pitt-rivers: Implement a method of recording the sites (??) by using a grid. Constructed scaled models of his sites: flinders petrie: Worked out the chronology of civilization of ancient egypt. Unilinear evolution: two founding fathers of anthropology who formulated these views: et and lhm, both created a scheme called unilinear evolution. Stages included: savagery, barbarism, civilization: unilinear evo is grossly incorrect. Don"t really go through these stages but this was believed at the time: led to racist remarks. Early 20th century archaeology: here, unilinear evo began to be challenged, franz boaz had a major impact in archaeology at the time. Wasn"t right to compare cultures from another and judge their standards etc. Seen as a founding father of american anthropolgogy. Early 20th century arch: gustof kossina, naturalistic, german patriot, like schliemann, he caused damage, his contribution was a very negative one.
