ANTH 2015 Lecture : 2014 Spring ANTH 2015 For Heather McKillop Lecture Topic 2 History Of Archaeology
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Anthropology 2015: introduction to archaeology, louisiana state university, heather mckillop. Lecture 2: "history of archaeology" word list creation stories popul vuh (maya) Papal edict: new world 16th c antiquarian 17th & 18th c. Archbishop james ussher: 4004 b. c. (6000 yrs human history) catastrophism, george cuvier. Darwin: on the origin of the species 1859. John evans: 1859 society of antiquarians concept of uniformitarianism (geology) concept of biological evolution (darwin) concept of social progress (industrial revolution) Foundations for anthropology in 19th century: (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (1)19th c: unilinear cultural evolution. Frederick engels eg. savagery, barbarism, civilizations layers of the soil. Social progress (2) historical particularism: reaction against unilinear cultural evolution descriptive diffusion. Smith: the ancient egyptians, 1911 direct historical approach (3) culture history tree-ring dating: dendrochronology, 1929.
