ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Uniformitarianism, Cyrus Thomas, Mound Builders
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Methodically dug trench though mound on property. Wanted to investigate how was built and if could have been built by native. Concluded that mounds could have been built by native americans. Skeletons found, and objects that were similar to currently used objects by native. One of first to carefully excavate in order to answer question: cyrus thomas. Tried to put to rest (cid:858)(cid:373)ou(cid:374)dbuilder(cid:859) (cid:373)yth. Wants to address origin of mounds and test if builders were ancient moundbuilding race. Compared things, skeletons inside and compared to current natives. Concluded that ancient native americans had built the mounds in 1894: lead to emergence of modern archaeology, classification and description. Had all of these thi(cid:374)gs, a(cid:374)d did(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)ow what to do with the(cid:373) Documentation of archaeological contexts for all artifacts. Typology- group artifacts into types based on shared attributes. Seriation: ordering groups of related artifacts into chronological sequence: uniformitarianism.
