U69 Anthro 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Museum Of Denmark, Natural Selection, Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes
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If reported in bp, it means radioactive date is uncalibrated: origin stories, hesiod (greek mythology) Age of iron: quiche" popol vuh, maize god, hero twins. Volcanoes not mentioned in the bible: principle of uniformitarianism (18th - 19th century, james hutton and charles lyell. The same geological processes observed in present have been at work in the past - uniform process. These processes are so slow, that the formations on earth must be very ancient. Because these processes occur so slowly, the earth must be older than. 4004 bc because it takes time for these features to develop. Found humans to be buried in soil deeper than animals who have already gone extinct - proves that the world wasn"t created perfectly and everything we see isn"t the way it always was. First to order artifacts chronologically, based on context of finds: essentially cultures also evolve, and he showed this through their, jens jacob worsaae artifacts and stuff.
