ANTH 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Time Capsule, The Blind, Deductive Reasoning
20 Jan 2017
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No direct written record of the revolt, only archeological evidence. Leader of the bar kokhba rovelt was bar kokhba. Rome tried to remove everything about jews. Jews had become a minority in their own lands. When romans were beating israel forces, people began hiding in caves in angetti. Found documents in the caves, written record of a woman who kept her paperwork: marriage documents, land ownership documents. Very limited view of the event to only one person, rather than the whole group. Those who study the past must realize that they are like the blind men. We do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) e(cid:454)a(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)hat the past is, (cid:373)ust look at (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) differe(cid:374)t for(cid:373)s of e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e. We can touch the past but cannot see it. History and archaeology = 2 views of the past. Co(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374): to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the past (cid:449)e (cid:373)ust (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)t the (cid:862)dots(cid:863) Put them in logical order: to understand what is found and the significance of the item.
