ANT 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Androcentrism, Lewis Binford, Processual Archaeology
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Geology and fossil records helped us understand earth was older than. Anthropology gives ethnographic work and tyler/morgan - 3 stages of societal development. Cj thomsen - gives 3 age system - bronze, stone and iron. Jefferson and pitt-rivers - rivers methods still used today. Gordon childe - traits of a city. Cultural history - description of artifacts, not explanatory. Lewis binford - father of processual archaeology. 1949 - radiocarbon dating method - science and explanatory. State and agriculture - don"t mention individual. Integration of marginalized groups - ethnic, feminist, and queer. Artifact - any portable object, used, modified or made by ancient people - pottery, decorative objects, tools and clothes. We can infer where people are in class. Tell us about religion, shapes of vessels, culture, subsistence. Feature - immovable things that were used, made or modified by humans - walls, stairs, wells, monuments. Structure - buildings composed of many features. Ecofacts - non artifactual organic and environmental remains.
