ANT201H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Ian Hodder
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Archaeological theory: ideas that archaeologists have developed about the past and about the ways we come to know the past. The first clear evidence for the use of excavation to recover and explore the past was in renaissance europe. Until the 19th century, antiquarians struggled with a number of interrelated problems, one of the most striking being the difficulty in distinguishing objects of human manufacture from objects created by natural processes. Some ground stone axes were believed to be thunderstones: objects such as ground stone axes that people in medieval. Europe believed were formed in spots where lightning struck the earth. Methods for recognizing objects of human manufacture emerged. There was still no method for determining the age of artifacts. The development of darwin"s theory of evolution was one of the most far-reaching achievements of 19th-century science. 19th century was the period when archaeology emerged as a clearly defined discipline.
