ANTHROP 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uniformitarianism, James Ussher, Gibraltar 1
27 Jan 2017
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Recall : it was only 400 years ago that most well-read folk believed the world was created in 4004 bc (james ussher) Rasmus nyerup: danish historian, director of national museum of denmark, hired christian thomsen to help them order the collections, it is because of them that the three-age system was born. Classifying nature: linnaeus systema naturae = system classifying living beeings (that reflects divine plan, zoologist, botanist. Colonialism and exploration: europeans exposed to a much larger world than they had known in the middle. Schmerling and gibraltar 1: did not look like us, found with tools, early archaeology, william stuckeley: stonehenge, first try to date stonehenge arguing it was not built by giants or devils, but by people off some antiquity. American vs. european early archaeology: europeans view archaeology as history (study their own ancestors, in america, we study someone else"s history for the most part (native.
