Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Shared Belief, Alison Wylie, Spear-Thrower
27 Mar 2018
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Chavin people depict not local animals, animals found elsewhere. Hopewellian interaction sphere - a common set of symbols found in midwest us. During the 1990-1950s many archaeologists thought that ritual and symbolism were inaccesible In the 1960s processual archaeologist initially proposed that all aspects of the past were accesible to archaeologists - i. e. winford"s ideotechnic artifacts. But by the 1970s winford argued that we must rid ourselves . Yet some processual archaeologists always maintained that archaeology should be concerned with the thoughts and beliefs of past peoples (i. e. james deetz, kent. Several post-processual archaeologists have turned to cognitive archaeology in the past 3 decades. Cognitive archaeology - the study of all those aspects of ancient culture that are the product of the human mind: The perception, description and classi cation of the universe; Components of cognitive archaeology: cosmology, ritual, religion & iconography.
