ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michael Shermer, Confirmation Bias, Antiquities Trade
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Archaeology is the study of humans and their past ways of life by examining the remains, artifacts and evidence of those lifeways, often recovered from the ground or from underwater. Archaeology is concerned with people in the past and information about them. The things people made - their artifacts are not what is important in archaeology. The information we can learn about people from studying their artifacts is what is important. A professional archaeologist, in canada is a person who has studied archaeology and who receives a license or permit from the government to do archaeological research. The archaeologist agrees to do the work by professional methods and to catalogue and care for any artifacts and to write about and share her or his work. Scientific excavation and study of ancient human material remains. To understand our past; to discover who we were, and who we are. Understanding how society functions and how it will survive in the future.
