AN 103 Midterm: Archaeological history
Document Summary
Ciriaco de" pizzicolli, carles lyell, charles darwin, jaques boucher de perthes, John frere, christian jergensen thomsen: bill rathje: associated with the garbology project found garbage from yeas and years ago. He found that there is so much paper taking up landfills and that we are doing a bad job recycling: francesco petrarch: (renaissance era) remote past idea for perfectionism. Study of ancient texts and monuments of classical civilizations of the mediterranean: ciriaco de" pizzicolli: (renaissance era) devoted life to studying ancient monuments, copying inscriptions, promoting study of the past. Renaissance man learned about the pre societies in europe and south. West asia: charles lyell: founding father of geology and came up with the uniformitarian theory found that the earth was older than 6,000 years old. Uniformitarianism: slow and steady processes (ie. weather, climate, erosion) are always happening and changes the earth slowly. Helps us reconstruct and use the earth as a clock.
