AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew Of Kaimsthorn, Lewis Binford, Historical Archaeology
1 Feb 2018
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Social diversity within nations a concern (relate to historical archaeology) Social inequality as it related to i. e. gender, ethnicity, status, class, age. Shift from description to explanation of cultural change. Recognition of patterns reflecting past social dynamics. A product of both innate human nature and of individual experience and environment. People play an active part in creating experience = agency (chart) individual family community/culture society global: personal decision-making tools, environmental cues, cultural influences. A way of conceptualizing the complex, systemic and dynamic behavior of a group: society, subsistence, technology, contact & exchange, belief & thought. An approach to bridging the gap between archaeological remains and the societies they represent. Relation between statics and dynamics in a modern setting (if understood could translate the static material stone tools to who it belonged to) Use of information derived in one context (the present) to explain data from another context (the past)
