ANTH 2015 Chapter : Anthropology 2015 Lecture 2 History Of Arch Word List
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Anthropology 2015: introduction to archaeology, louisiana state university, heather mckillop. Creation stories: every culture has some creation story. An explanation about origin of world and human"s place in it: santiago coc, maya guide. Papal edict: new world 16th c, the explorers were actually looking for asia. Expeditions funded by royalty: papal edict established people in new world were human. Antiquarian: someone interested in the past who collects and digs up antiquities unscientifically, in contrast to the scientific archaeologist. 17th & 18th c: upper middle class who had time to collect old things. 4004 b. c. (6000 yrs human history: used book of genesis-counted generations and estimated that world began in 4004 b. c, early demographer, theory became theological dogma, a chronological yardstick for all prehistory. Catastrophism: world was created by a series of divine creations and destructions. Soil layers: george cuvier, fit well with ussher"s theory.
