ANT200H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1: Pseudoarchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
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Pseudoarcheology misusing archaeological evidence for misleading or harmful ends. Archaeology the study of the human past through its material remains: with the aim of ordering past events, and describing & explaining their meanings. Form the description and classification of physical evidence that is recovered. Goal: outline the distribution of remains of ancient societies in both time and space. Function purposes of the objects determined from analysis of objects and its relationships with other pieces of evidence. Process changes that occurred in past societies. Goal: to determine how and why ancient cultures changed over time. Meaning understanding past societies within their own cultural contexts. Goal: to determine the attitudes and beliefs of ancient peoples and to learn things from the past that may be of use to us in the present. Science gaining knowledge about the natural world through observation. Scientific method self-correcting set of procedures to objectively observe the world. Hypothesis statements of relationships based on a set of assumptions.
