ANTHROP 2PA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Uniformitarianism, Advantageous
8 Mar 2019
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History of arc is synonymous w great discovery. We know more about history because we ask the right questions and have good methods of following them. Every view of the past is a product of its own time it is constantly changing speculative phase. During 18th c: pompeii won of first sites, wasn"t long until it was influencing styles of furniture & media. Study of the stratification of rocks est. principles that were to be the basis of arc excavation. Uniformitarianism: geologically ancient conditions were in essence similar to or uniform w those of our own time. Introduced by lyell: could be applied to human past, many ways the past is like the present. Inds kinda knew that the earth was old, and knew that the biblical hypothesis of the earth being only a few thousand years old couldn"t be accepted: possibility of a prehistory of humankind was est.
