ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Discovery Of Human Antiquity, Stone Age
11 Sep 2015
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Knowledge: does not emerge from a collection of data; even if you had an encyclopedia about everything in the world, theres no way you could read/learn it all! Archeological theory: ideas developed about the past and about the ways we come to know the past! Thomsen (1816) divided time into: stone age, bronze age, iron. 1846: j. boucher de perthes: human artifacts found alongside extinct animals ! 1859: darwin published on the origin of species ! 1860"s: c. lyell studied geologic time and humans! 1865: j. lubbock subdivided stone age into neolothic and paleolithic! Treasure hunters became popular in eld of arch ( imperial archeology ) = looters! * prevalence of artifact and ecofact, and how it correlates to strata! G. kossina (20"s) : a uni ed set of archeological artifacts, a culture , is the sign of a uni ed ethnicity (people)!
