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What is Archaeology |
The study of human cultural past using material culture |
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Sites |
Any location modified by past humans |
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Excavation |
To uncover; to reveal |
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Cultural Anthropology |
Concerned with the non-biological, behavioral aspects of society |
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Physical/Biological Anthropology |
Deals with the study of human biological or physical characteristics and their evolution |
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Cognitive Archaeology |
The study of past ways of thought and symbolic structures from material remains |
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The Law of Superposition |
Is when the youngest layer is on top and the oldest is on the bottom Each layer is younger than the one beneath |
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The Law of Stratigraphy |
The further the layer is down, the older it is |
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Culture |
A term used when referring to non-biological characteristics unique to a society |
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Pre-history |
The period before the advent of writing Ex. Viking Age , Neolithic hunters |
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History |
The period of time after the advent of writing Ex. Mesopotamia; Egypt |
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Archbishop Ussher (Usser) |
- 1581-1656 - World was created on Oct. 23 710 JC or 4004 BCE |
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Sir William Dugdale |
- 1605 - 1686 CE - discovered stone tools and fossils pre-dated use of metal technology |
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Catastrophism |
- the earth was shaped due to singular cataclysmic events
Ex. Mountains form from earthquakes |
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Robert Hooke |
-1653-1703 -fossils are different in different layers of soil - suggested the ability to date the based on groups and layers |
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Nicholas Steno |
-1638-1686 - Fossils were once living creatures -Laws of Stratigraphy |
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Georges Cuvier |
- 1769-1832 -Law of Correlation -Not an evolutionist -Resurgence of Catastrophism |
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Philippe - Charles Schmerling |
- 1791-1836 - Found mammoth and human together |
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John Frere |
-1797 -Found Stone tools and extinct sea fossils implying they lived at the same |
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Charles Lyell |
-1830s - Principles of Geology -Uniformitarianism |
