ANT317H5 Chapter 1: Jefferies 1995
25 May 2016
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Jefferies 1995 - the status of archaic period. The term archaic used for the first time in 1932 by william ritchie. Proposed archaic pattern as part of the mckern system: weeb and dejarnette used archaic and expanded the geological range to the entire eastern woodlands, archaic grew to refer to a chronological period while used as developmental stage o. By late 1960s, archaeologists agree on dates for archaic period. Divided into early, middle and late archaic: archaeologists who contributed to development of the archaeological concept. 1970s, archaeologists believe that archaic period was a static period of cultural development with small hunter gatherer groups o. In the past 20 years, there has been an unprecedented amount of research. Due to large number of new data from multidisciplinary research. Recent advances in archaic period research o. Late 1970s and 1980s, recovery of carbonized plants from large number of well-dates archaic contexts. Plant domestication slow process with both humans and plants.
