ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Franz Boas
8 May 2020
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Types of famous early archaeologists: treasure hunters, giovanni battista belzoni (1778-1822) strongman-come-treasure hunter. Mummy collector: explorers, stephens and catherwood (mid-19th century) traveled around the maya world, taking images and writing best-selling descriptions, scientists: Jacques boucher de perthes (1840"s) stone axes and elephant bones in n. France: schliemann (1871) discovered that the iliad was actually likely based in reality, found what might have been troy, pitt-rivers (1900) detailed notes of roman ruins in s. england. 2 distinct types of archaeology: classical filling in gaps in text, anthropological study of human past and culture change. This is what he calls an archaeological culture. He"s a bit vague in what counts we find certain types of remains pots, implements, ornaments, burial rites, and house forms constantly recurring together. Such a complex of associated traits we shall term a cultural group" or just a culture. ". They are used by people in multiple ways and multiple reasons.
