ANTHRO 2AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Broken Mammoth, Pattern Recognition
12 Feb 2018
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Anthro 2ac lecture 2 notes-archaeology (next monday jan 22th move lecture to 10 evans hall) Politics of the past as well as archaeology"s role in contemporary issues of identity, identity formation, and local politics. How knowledge about the past is created with empirical data and also develop critical evaluation skills. A well preserved site: must farm england, 2016. Less well preserved site: broken mammoth, alaska. Always we must consider the sequence of actions- There are many different pasts in different people"s minds. A fact is a real thing known to be true. The past is a temporal sequence that has gaps that investigation can fill in at least partially. We apply theories about people material and culture by using. Definition: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Analogy is the basis of most archaeological interpretation.
