Archaeology ARC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pseudoscience, World-Systems Theory, Walmart
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Colonial history is nuanced and complicated: monument in zimbabwe europeans claimed it was the work of a biblical queen tied to the. Europeans and not the work of native african people: zimbabwe established as an african country when people started to push back against this idea of european heritage, the crusades=a series of military campaigns headed by the. Iraq: looting and destruction of government buildings, museums, national monuments after the collapse of saddam hussein"s regime: stuff happens freedom is untidy donald rumsfeld, syria: civil war, 2011-present, satellite imagery shows widespread destruction, temple destroyed, etc. Isis trying to wipe out history of culture to make room for their own: timbuktu, conflicts ongoing, but also peaceful resistance. Idea that holding stuff from past makes you cultured, etc. , but really just depriving cultures of their heritage: the british museum"s looting problem, attempts to repatriate looted items giving back artifacts from.
