ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Soil Chemistry, Looting, Mass Spectrometry
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Archeology and history: both study the past, written vs material, history is limited (age and literacy, record focus on the rich) Archeology and classics: classic civilizations (rome and greece), art and history. Archology and sciences: geology, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy. But human beings aren"t predictable, therefore, archeology is a social science* Archeology: study of human past combining the themes of time and change. Combines time and change using material remains. We must piece together what was preserved. Split into archeological (looks at larger fundamentals of human behaviour, before written record) and historical (in combination with the written record) archeology. Eras are used to make time more comprehensible: era: major division of geological time, tens or hundreds of millions of years long, distinguished by changes in plant and animal kingdoms, later, to distinguish archeological periods. Further broken into epochs: epoch: subdivision of geological time, millions of years long. Culture is used to modify and enhance a species without genetic change.
