ANTH 2015 Lecture : Anthropology Notes
Document Summary
Goals of archaeology (1) culture history (2) past lifeways (3) culture change. John evans- wanted to make a report for the society of aniquarians: met in abbecille, france at the society of antiquarians in 1859 that proved catastrophism wrong. Single pathway that all cultures passed through and things got better (1) henry morgan, edward tyler, frederick engle: says every culture started with savagery, barbarism, civilization. Culture history- describing what happened when and where (1) tree-ring dating- dendrochronology-1929-a. e. Douglass (2) radiocarbon dating-willard libby- provided a way to date organic material-1949. The postprocessual critique- or is there a reality out there? (1) postprocessual archaeology, 1980s to present: interpret the past- everyone sees something different, past is a construct of the observer (the archaeologist) Goals of archaeology (1) culture history (2) past lifeways (3) culture change (4) interpret the past. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust maybe not.
