AR101 Lecture Notes - Pastoralism, Sedentism, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
26 Aug 2013
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A subcategory to archaeology developed in the 1970s. Focuses on social systems, institutions & organization of the society before attempting to look at. Involves reconstructing past societies & social practices in their totality the role of the individual & their actions. Artifacts & other archaeological finds are placed in a social context. A way of conceptualizing the complex, systemic & dynamic behaviour of a group society belief & thoughts subsisstence contact & exchange technology. An approach to bridging the gap between archaeological remains & the societies they represent. Use of information derived in one context (the present) to explain data from another context (the past) Assumption: conditions in the past were like those in the present. Written records: archives containing commercial media accounts, actuarial records, official documentary records, private records. Oral tradition: cultural material & tradition transmitted orally from one generation to the next.
