ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Questions With Complete Solutions
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ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2
Questions With Complete Solutions
Alfred Vincent Kidder The founder of Anthropological archaeology, followed and
separated particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a cultural chronology, used
intensive artifact analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson F...
ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2
Questions With Complete Solutions
Alfred Vincent Kidder The founder of Anthropological archaeology, followed and
separated particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a cultural chronology, used
intensive artifact analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson First archaeologist to excavate village sites in Egypt, showed
there was more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'
Stratigraphy A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or
cultural sediments into layers.
Culture History The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the early to mid-twentieth
century that documented how material culture changed over time and space.
H. Marie Wormington Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the shift from a concern with
things to a concern with thinking from things; first female president of the Society for American
Archaeology.
, ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2
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Lewis R. Binford Archaeology's "angry young man," argued, archaeology must transcend
potsherds and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural evolution, ecology, and social
organization - became known as "new archaeology"
New Archaeology An approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s, emphasizing the
understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method; today's
version of this is sometimes called processual archaeology.
People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. Why is
the study of the past controversial?
Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. How was the rise of archaeology
connected to the discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?
Thinking from things What makes an archaeologist an archaeologist?
Anthropology The study of all aspects of humankind— biological, cultural, and
linguistic; extant and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative approach and the concept of
culture.
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