ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mound Builders, Cyrus Thomas, Patty Jo Watson
8 May 2020
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Archaeology out of an antiquarian studies of 1500"s 1800s. Breakthroughs in the 1800s: progressive view of culture, antiquity of man. By 1900 archaeology as a discipline: in europe-independent or with history, in us with anthropology. Early period (1800s to 1960) of professional archaeology focused on time-space systematics: when and where. Explanatory period post 1960: how and why. Anthropology began as an academic discipline in late 1800s in us. Archaeology used to study history of american indian societies in new world: total study of human culture, studying past through archaeology, biology, language, economics, Work directly back from archaeological site occupied in the historic record to understand link to prehistoric period. Associated with bureau of american ethnology founded 1879. Generally assume that they weren"t talking about that much time. New excavation methods in the us in 1910"s: stratigraphy and seriation. Kidder and nels nelson: make rough estimates, first place to put a calendar date in archaeology sites.
