CAS AR 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Marija Gimbutas, Maya Rulers, Frequency Distribution
27 Mar 2016
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Chapter 5 anthropology: actually visit a living society and rapidly form conclusions about tis social and power structures. But archeologists can find out info about societies at different points in time. The most basic social question are always the first ones to ask: ask the size or scale of the society. Archeologists will often be excavating a single site. An interest is to go beyond that area and understand how that site interacts with others. *these questions are top-down but now some are bottom-up meaning they study an individual and how their identity is in the society is defined. This has led to the archeology of the individual and the archeology of identity. Questions are best answered through a study of settlement, both in terms of scale and nature of individual sites and relationships between them, through the analysis of settlement pattern. Societies who are literate are also useful in assessing the nature and scale of the society.
