[ANTH 1100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (30 pages long!)
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Archaeology: the scientific study of our human past based on the surviving material remains. Ownership of the past- ethics and trade antiquities. Learn to what evidence we use to figure out answers. European dilettanti went on the grand tour and brought back antiquities: only rich people were able to do this. How: used detailed knowledge of bible, history, biblical languages, counted back using biblical family trees. Anthropological ides of the time: idea of common humanity. Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans: portable. Before archaeology could develop, needed concept of deep time for humans (>6000) First hint: stone tools found with bones of extinct animals. Layers (strata) are formed by the same geological processes that we see today. We can study how long it takes layers to form/wear away. Bronze tools and weapons, still some stone tools a. iii. Iron tools, as well as a few older ones still used.
