AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes, Discovery Of Human Antiquity, James Hutton
Document Summary
History & personalities of archeology (note # 3) september 17, 2015. Age of reason (17th -18th century: europe sees growth in scientific exploration; particularly natural history, 1738, charles of bourbon, hires antiquarian marcello venuti to excavate. Herculaneum: venuti supervises the excavations, translates inscriptions, proves that the site is herculaneum, american thomas jefferson (1743-1825, 1784, first systematic excavation, dug a trench through a burial mound, recognized strata and deduced that the mound was used repeatedly. Ingredients for a formal archaeology-the geologist, biologist and museum. Director: an understanding of geological processes, the concept of evolution, evidence for great human antiquity. ***geological processes are evident at the grand canyon*** At the beginning of the 18th century the prevailing belief was that the earth was formed after the great flood of noah. Key concept=uniformitarianism: scotsman james hutton (1726-1797, did not accept that the layers of the earth were laid down by the great flood, argued for processes still active today:
