Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
13 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Oscar Montelius
|
typological method for the bronze age
|
|
|
historical particularism
|
attention to details of artifacts and other specific traits
|
|
|
Direct historical approach
|
early 20th century. involved historical particularism and developing chronological frameworks.
|
|
|
Environmental archaeology
|
1940s. Graham Clark of Britain, similar to Steward's cultural ecology.
|
|
|
The New Archeology
|
1960s. understand people- classifying has gone too far.
|
|
|
culture historical synthesis
|
used artifact classifications to develop regional culture histories. incl. AV Kidder and V Gordon Childe.
|
|
|
historical archaeology
|
seeks to understand the gaps between historical and archaeological records.
|
|
|
Midwestern taxonomic system
|
1930s. WC McKern's efforts to correlate culture histories of the midwest. hierarchy of terms of increasing generality.
|
|
|
Cultural ecology
|
Julian Steward, 1950s. study of culture change by means of environmental adaptation.
|
|
|
challenges to scientific archaeology
|
-tool of male capitalist domination
-no such thing as objective knowledge |
|
|
Processual archaeology
|
result of new archeology. concerned with understanding culture change. used the scientific method and tested specific hypotheses.
|
|
|
Processual archaeology
|
result of new archeology. concerned with understanding culture change. used the scientific method and tested specific hypotheses.
|
|
|
interpretive archaeologies
|
post-processual; no one reading of the archaeological record can be judged more correct than another.
|
