ANTH 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Diminishing Returns, Competitive Exclusion Principle, Intelligent Design
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Prescelly mountains in wales. likely raised with significant application of leverage. Now we"re pretty sure stonehenge was created by british neolithic people using systems. Generally concluded that laws of history do not exist, comparative or similar. Herbert spencer, edward taylor, and lewis henry morgan developed the law of progressive cultural evolution (unilineal evolution) in the nineteenth century. to. basically intelligent design. Posit that cultures become more complex over time because they were supposed. Proposed three stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. Morgan viewed human progress as dependent on changes in material culture which emerged as germs of thought in the right contexts. essentially depended on vitalism with germ of thought being something intrinsic. Changes in material culture" part more right than especially the germs of thought part. (nations). Four(or five) cultural stages are now recognized: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states, Historical context is key, the most important thing to how a culture becomes that culture.
