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29 Cards in this Set
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pioneer of processualism |
Lewis Binford |
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pioneer of post-processualism |
Ian Hodder |
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"father of archaeology" who excavated his land in West Virginia, a former native american burial ground, using stratigraphy |
Thomas Jefferson |
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found flint tools in the gravels of the somme valley |
Boucher de Perthes |
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pioneer of stratigraphy |
Nels Nelson |
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the mound guys - did a lot of a research on mounds in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, suggesting that they served different purposes |
Squier and Davis |
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created the first systematic approach to North American archaeology and helped with theory of culture history |
A.V. Kidder |
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tobacconist responsible for commissioning the Cardiff Giant |
George Hull |
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guy who said that ancient civilizations had already visited the Americas prior to Columbus |
Barry Fell |
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excavated the Davenport mounds, and found the Davenport Tablets |
Jacob Gass |
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father of modern geology - devised new ways of thinking about earth history |
Charles Lyell |
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excavated troy because he wanted to prove homer true |
Heinrich Schliemann |
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refined archaeological method to near perfection |
Augustus Pitt-Rivers |
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pioneered radiocarbon dating |
William Libby |
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claimed that God created the world in 4004 b.c |
James Ussher |
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famous for "conjunctive archaeology" - studying the past combining elements of both traditional and the allied field of anthropology |
Walter Taylor |
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pioneered the Three Age System |
Christian Thomsen |
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proved the three-age system through stratigraphy |
Jens Waarsae |
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man who found the piltdown man, and a prime suspect in the Hoax though never proven |
Charles Dawson |
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used stylistic seriation for Diospolis Parva |
Sir Flanders Petrie |
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leading scholar on the crystal skulls, tracing them back to the same antiquities dealer in the 19th century |
Jane Walsh |
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a nut who claimed he could speak to objects and learn about the past |
George McMullen |
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retro recognition "expert" who used psychic abilities to gain info from an artifact - asked to interpret mass viking site |
Sybil Leek |
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proponent of psychic archaeology whose work is considered by many to be pseudo archaeology |
Stephen Schwartz |
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points dating back 13,500 years and have been associated with Mammoth Skeletons |
Clovis |
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guy who talks about Atlantis and Mu, suggesting that Aliens started the world, citing an etching of a rocket ship |
Erich von Daniken |
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technique used to date burned flint and pottery as well as to identify clay sources |
Thermoluminesence (TL) |
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form of Primary context wherein an artifact or ecofact has been deposited outside of where it was used or made |
transposed context |
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multidisciplinary approach to archaeology that uses techniques from geography, geology and other earth sciences |
Geoarchaeology |
