ANTH 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Emic And Etic, Common Era, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
8 Aug 2016
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There is the main one which is relative, that do not provide you with a exact date. It is a date in relation to other dates. It underlies the law of superposition. date is always relative to something else. Dates are expressed in relation to each other. Example: this layer is earlier than that pit. 1)primary: a)stratigraphy b)seriation: types that have been established(e. g through typological method are ordered in linear fashion= the goal is to arrive at sequence dates. It does not start out with individual artifacts, you need a typology as the basis for doing seriation. Seriation and culture history: a)focus on vertical sequence of site. b)study of archaeological layers: straigraphy. c)interest in study of site histories. Evolutionary: however, not strictly unilinear but also room for idiosyncrasies. Diffusionist: the center of innovation in the middle east, diffusion to europe. Flinders petrie(1853-1942): he was working to establish a detailed, intricit distinction of pottery types.
