ANTH 3100Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnoarchaeology, Archaic Humans, Human Relations Area Files

• School: Trent University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3100Y
• Professor: Stinson

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Anth 3100 the new archaeology - 07/10/16. This is one of the more important lectures from the class, according to the professor. Remember that there is a quiz on october 21st. New archaeology instead of trying to understand the artifacts themselves, instead try to understand the environments that they were situated in. The most successful cultures were those who could generate the most energy from their environment theory derived from julian steward and leslie white"s work. David clarke (1937-1976) believed that archaeology did not have a discipline, but a way of collecting data. Key player colin renfrew, lord renfrew of kaimsthorn (b 1937) wrote before. Monumentality in wessex and aegean cannot be lined, thus in reality a similar cultural process is at work prehistoric archaeology has not yet developed suitable concepts and. The precise absolute dating of the wessex culture appears a secondary question indeed .