ANT200H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gustaf Kossinna, Prehistoric Archaeology, Archaeological Science
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Pseudo archeology: refers to interpretations of the past from outside of the archaeological science community, which reject the accepted data gathering and analytical methods of the discipline. Lost civilizations of atlantis and mus: they use selective evidence to build their case ad ignore others, main motive is to make money, sometimes this may be misused for political reasons such as nationalistic or racist doctrines are supported by falsified reconstruction of the past, ex. It"s the field that uses physical remains to order and explain ancient events, to explain the human behavior behind those events, and to understand the meaning od the past: archaeological record: a series of methods by which they discover, recover, preserve, describe and analyze remains, archaeologists are guided by a body of theory, theories provide the means to interpret archaeological evidence and allows description, explanation, and understanding of the past.
