ANT 3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Lewis Binford
Document Summary
Archaeology"s alphabet soup: b. p. , a. d. , b. c. , etc. Jens worsaae: giovanni belzoni, christian thomsen, antiquarian, midden, potsherd, gertrude caton-thompson bagdad museum, great zimbabwe, stratigraphy. Archaeology at mid-twentieth century reconstruction of past lifeways: culture history, lewis binford, new archaeology. Key elements of modern archaeology: scientific methods, concern with ethics linked to larger field of anthropology. The culture concept: edward burnett tylor, culture: ideational perspective, adaptive perspective. What"s a scientific approach: science, scientific method six steps, moundbuilder myth. Inductive reasoning: hypothesis, deductive reasoning, model of archaeological inquiry testability. The structure of archaeological inquiry feature low-level theory: data, middle-level theory, high-level theory, processual paradigm, postprocessual paradigm, contrasts between processual and postprocessual archaeology. Some sampling considerations: statistical sampling, statistical population, sample universe random sample. 2: sample units, stratified random sample, utm. Doing the work: stratified random sample, smithsonian number. Gps technology and modern surveys: global positioning system. Looking below the ground: plow zone, shovel testing remote sensing, proton precession magnetometer, soil resistivity survey, ground-penetrating radar.
