ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kootenay River, Surface 2, Cryoturbation
24 Oct 2017
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Lecture #13, october 16, 2014 -- middle-range archaeology, part b: Post holes are often all that remain some types of anciet houses, as illustrated by ethnoarchaeological research among the mikea of madagascar. Middle-level theory and realted research seeks to explain archaeological patterns and , in doing so, depends on the principle of uniformitarianism. Archaeologists rely to one degree or another on theories answers to why questions-- at various levels. Low-level theory involves the observations that emerge from archaeological fieldwork; it is how archeologists get their data/facts; standardized, replicable, comparable measurements and identifiactions. Cumulative knowledge from anthropology and archaeology, history, other sources. Middle-range research: a reliable means by which archaeologists relate the archaeological record to human behavior via middle-range theory hypotheses that link (ie explain how/why) archaeological observations with human behavior or natural processes that produced thee. Grounded in the principal of uniformitarianism, a la.
