AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Monks Mound, Nunamiut, Mousterian

• School: WLU
• Department: Archaeology and Heritage Studies
• Course: AR101
• Professor: Bonnie Glencross

Document Summary

Mortuary remains, settlement patterns, monuments, public works, and written records: serve as markets of social identity, analogy and inference to interpret social organization and social relations. Behaviour: a product of both innate human nature and of individual experience and environment, people play an active part in creating experience = agency. Systems perspective: a way of conceptualizing the complex, systemic and dynamic behavior of a group. Dynamic is everything is changing: space is organized at multiple levels. Properties of one level are contingent on relationships with and activates in other levels: time is structures that vary and change over time, context is interactions at different levels of organizations. Various external factors experienced are mediated in a broader social and ecological. Middle range theory: context: an approach to bridging the gap between archaeological remains and the societies they represent, lewis binford"s aim was to study the relation between statics and dynamics in a modern setting.