ANTH 2050 : Test 1 Notes
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However there were no methods for dating artifacts until the nineteenth century. Thunderstones objects that formed in spots where lightening struck the earth. Arrow heads were identified as fossilized serpent tongues: 19th century was the period when archaeology emerged, two of the major achievements of the 19th century were the creation of the three-age. System (by christian thomsen) and the determination of the depth of human antiquity: archaeology of the 19th century often reflects the ideology and biases of european colonists. In 1857, a neanderthal skull was discovered near dusseldorf providing evidence of a premodern human. A visual memory allowed him to make comparisons and recognize patterning in the archaeological collections across europe. The catalyst in this movement was lewis binford: he was an ideal ringleader for a gang of intellectual revolutionaries, he carried out wide ranging research from the midwestern us to the arctic to south. Chimpanzees show the greatest genetic similarity to humans.
