ANTH 213 Lecture : What is Culture?
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Archaeology study of past human culture through recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data including architecture, artifacts, features, and landscape. Culture learned and shaped behavior in humans that is passed from generation to generation. Diffusion transition of cultural traits from one to another (i. e. migration) Data hypothesis tests more tests models tests theory continued scrutiny. Source of data: material culture, documented record, ethnographic analogy, experimental archeology. Types of archeology: classic, prehistoric, biblical, industrial, historical, maritime, etc.
