ANT200H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Shovel Test Pit, Taphonomy, Deductive Reasoning
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Modern archaeology: systematic study of the past, asks how and why things were done. Archaeometry: the application of scientific techniques to analyze archaeological materials. Antiquarianism: interest in and collection of ancient objects (art or science), main focus on the objects themselves; interpretation of objects was speculative and not scientific, this is the root of archaeology. Because of the age of enlightenment and the. Renaissance, ideas from people like charles lyell (uniformitarianism) and charles darwin (evolution by natural selection) got people thinking that artifacts could be more than just objects, they could be ways of understanding people in the past. Cultural evolutionism: the idea that all cultures progress through a series of evolutionary stages. U(cid:374)ili(cid:374)eal: lewis he(cid:374)ry morga(cid:374) ca(cid:373)e up with the idea of the (cid:862)(cid:374)atural progressio(cid:374)(cid:863) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) societies based on technological development; stages are savagery, barbarianism, & civilisation. Multilinear: each culture progresses differently based on natural settings, interacting societies, and own traditions.
