ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Processual Archaeology, Dual Inheritance Theory, Unilineality
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Talks about: cultural historical perspective this is not a paradigm or approach. Contextual dimensions formal, spatial, temporal {otherwise known as culture history} Cultural material (processual), social (societial archaeology and social agency) and ideational (post processual paradigm) Answers what, when (temporal dimension), where (regards all provenience) Not a paradigm or an approach so to speak. This must be undertaken by all archaeologists. Mechanisms of cultural change include: internal mechanisms, external mechanisms. Internal mechanisms refer to: inevitable variation, which is that nothing ever, stays the same in simple terms. All cultures change over time (page 211 of the text) Cultural invention: new ideas will originate within a culture and is by accident or purposeful design. Cultural selection (darwinist selection): change occurs because of the darwinist approach to evolution. Natural selection: certain organisms that can reproduce successfully will survive and thrive as opposed to those who cant where this is applied to culture.
