AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gordon Willey, Flinders Petrie, Viru Valley
3 Mar 2015
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The ordering of artifacts over time and space. Using this to say what culture produced it and when it was produced. Primary goal to understand the unique history of the culture studied: gordon childe. Two key concepts: the neolithic revolution, the urban. Europe got its culture traditions from farming, tried to track this by trying to track artifacts with culture. The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural word through observation and experiment . It means you need to look at the natural world and observe, then you need to experiment with it. Stresses interaction between presuppositions and independent empirical reality. The more you look, the better questions you ask. History of archaelegoy incorporates many different ways of looking at the past. Humans always interested in the past,, but scientific approach to the past relatively recent . Any portable object used, modified or made by humans.
