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artifacts ANS✔✔ human made objects retrieved from sites that are the
primary source of information for archaeologists
BC ANS✔✔ ("before Christ"): For instance, 3200BC; note that the letters
follow the date.
AD ANS✔✔ ("anno Domini"): Meaning "in the year of the Lord," indicates a
year that falls within the Christian era (that is, after the birth of Christ). Given
the English translation of the phrase, archaeologists place the "AD" before
the numerical age- we say the Norman Invasion occurred in "AD 1066" rather
than "1066 AD." The earliest AD date is AD 1; there is no AD 0 because this
year is denoted by 0 BC and double numbering is not allowed.
CE ANS✔✔ ("Common Era"): Basically the same as AD, except that it is
intended to avoid religious connotations or privilege.
BCE ANS✔✔ ("before Common Era"): The same as BC, but as CE, it avoid the
religious connotation.
BP ANS✔✔ ("Before Present"):Most archaeologists prefer to use an age
estimate (with AD 1950 arbitrarily selected as zero
Antiquarianism ANS✔✔ With the goal to map, record, and preserve national
treasures, members of Europe's leisure classes considered an interest in
classical antiquities to be an important ingredient in the"cultivation of taste."
, Nabonidus ANS✔✔ the last king of the neo-babylonian empire and the "first
archaeologist" he rebuilt temples and searched foundations for inscriptions
of earlier kings , looked to things to answer questions about the past
Francesco Petrarch ANS✔✔ During the renaissance he proposed that the
remote past was an ideal of perfection and he looked to antiquity for moral
philosophy
What is deep time? ANS✔✔ The idea that our planet's history stretches back
over a period of time so long that it is difficult for the human mind to
imagine.
James Ussher ANS✔✔ used the Bible to calculate the Earth's age (6000 yrs)
creation on 4004 BC
classical archaeology ANS✔✔ the branch of archaeology that studies the
"classical studies,"particularly ancient Greece and Rome, and the Near East
New world archaeology ANS✔✔ involved Euro-Americans digging up Native
Americans' ancestors, leading to a consideration of the ethical treatment of
archaeological remains.13
Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885-1963) ANS✔✔ Graduated from Harvard with the
6th Ph.D in anthropology and archaeology. Using potsherds, explained how
ceramic decoration could help determine cultural relationships among
various prehistoric groups.Established archaeology as "the branch of
anthropology which deals with prehistoric peoples": from things to people
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae: The First Professional Archaeologist ANS✔✔
Professional arcaheologists had to set out to create a chronology of the
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