ANTHR206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Stukeley, Nabonidus, John Lloyd Stephens

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR206
• Professor: Kisha Supernant

Document Summary

Is the systematic study of the human past through its material remains. Trying to make sense of what happened in the past. It is the study of human culture (beliefs and behaviours) Holistic (all cultures are studied, and everything about the culture, example eating habits, dressing habits, ect . To reconstruct past lifeways (how people lived their daily lives, and the things they did) To study the processes of cultural change (and why these changes happen) To reconstruct the cultural chronology and history. We need to analyse the archaeological record to meet these goals. It is history (it reconstructs a series of events) It is a science (it uses data, hypotheses, replicable data, statistical analysis,) The story of how we have begun to look at material evidence from the human past, using new methods. It used to be that people did not know that history before written records existed. There has always been speculation about the human past.