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