ANTH 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Deductive Reasoning, Processual Archaeology, Deconstruction
24 Oct 2017
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Study humans sure as biological organisms human fossils. Anthropology - holistic study of all aspects of humankind. Science in archaeology science - a systematic body of knowledge about any field archaeological sites show earliest forms of scientific inquiry. John wesley powell head of the bureau of ethnology spent %20 of budget on mounds picked cyrus thomas for excavations. Thomas jefferson inductive reasoning - working from specific facts or observations to general conclusions define a problem establish a hypotheses determine empirical implications of hypothesis collect data test hypothesis reject, revise, and or retest hypothesis. Moving observable to invisible contemporary evidence left by the past seek two situations ongoing human behavior or processes material results of the aforementioned address big questions" high-level theory. Material factors play critical roles in how human societies have changed. Hypotheses must be constructed to test the competing propositions. Testing this proposition requires some way of inferring from archaeological data. We cannot hope to reconstruct the complete past.
