Anthropology 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes, Processual Archaeology, Lewis Binford
16 Apr 2014
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Putting the picture together: diderot and d"alembert: Wanted to write an encyclopedia that would collect all human knowledge into a series of massive tomes. Consists of the ideas archaeologists have developed about the past and about the ways we come to know it. 2. 1 origins of archaeology: earliest evidence of ancient objects comes from early mesopotamia, egypt, and. China: the first clear evidence for the use of excavation to recover and explore the past was in renaissance europe. In the 19th century, antiquarians had problems distinguishing between human manufactured objects and objects made by natural processes. For example: ground stone axes were believed to be thunderstones. : thunderstones objects that formed in spots where lightning struck the earth. Arrowheads were identified as fossilized serpent tongues: there was still now method of determining the age of artifacts. 19th century was when archaeology emerged as a clearly defined discipline: two major achievements of 19th century archaeologists:
