ARCL-1006EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rescue Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology, Downcutting
16 Jun 2018
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ARCL 1006
Jan 15, 2018
Understanding Evolution
•Why is it important to understand colonial history of archaeology?
•archaeologists ‘write the history’ of the people of the past
•indigenous and other descendants bring the cultural knowledge to questions that
anthropologists and archaeologists might not have
•Anthropology is it relevant?
•forensic anthropology
•ex) knowledge of the human body, and legal framework, human remains.
•Cultural resource management
•rescue archaeology. people who find out if there are any archaeological sites in places
where one wants to do work (eg create mines, chop down forests, etc)
•Primate conservation
•People who maintain primate populations (:
•Corporate anthropology
•why things aren’t working well in the company- anthropologists come and hang out,
watch for problems and figure out better ways of working
•Creation Stories
•Huron-Wendat
•Dependency on animals
•Faults of humanity recognized early
•Duality, but neither completely good or evil
•Importance of family
•Importance of women in creation importance of fire and flint
•Judeo-Christian
•Hierarchical
•One creator
•male creator
•Human dominion over animals and other creatures
•everything has it’s own place
•Perfection
•What roles do creation stories have in human societies?
