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Anthropology - Answers -the study of human nature, human society, and the human
past
Anthropology differs from sociology &other fields that study humans - Answers -Holistic-
trying to fit together all that is known about human beings
Comparative-consider similarities and differences in all human societies to sum up
humans
Ethnocentrism - Answers -"you think your culture is best"
-evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards
and customs of one's own culture.
Cultural Relativism - Answers -"Every culture is equally valid, so you have no right to
impose your culture's values on other cultures"
-the principle that an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in
terms of that individual's own culture.
4* Subfeilds of Anthropology - Answers -Linguistics
Biological
Cultural
Archeology
Main goals of Archaeology - Answers -When, Where, Why and How
Types of arch - Answers -Classical- classical civilizations, Western Asia, Egypt and
Europe
Prehistoric- didn't have written records
"new world"- cultures before the european arrive
"old world"- usually paleolithic to bronze age
Historic Archaeology- study of cultures w/ written records
Contact Period- time when european arrived and impacted the native peoples
public,terrestrial,underwater etc....
, La Salle's La belle - Answers -La belle was a documentary about a one of Robert De La
Salles's ships that sailed from France to the Gulf of Mexico on a mission to colonize
French in the Americas. Excavated using double walled cofferdam
SOPA (Society of Professional Archeologists) - Answers -1976
defined professionalism
ability to challenge other recommendations
SOPA ----> RPA (Register of Professional Archaeology) - Answers -Register of
Professional Archaeology
Code of Conduct
Responsibility to the public
Responsibility to colleagues, employees, students
Responsibility to employers, clients
SAA (Society American Archaeology) - Answers -Principles of Archaeological Ethics
membership is by qualification
SEAC - Answers -Sexual Harassment Study
Antiquarian - Answers -a person who studies or collects antiques or antiquities.
Three age system - Answers -archaeology and physical anthropology was a
methodological concept adopted during the 19th century by which artifacts and events
of late prehistory and early history could be ordered into a recognizable chronology.
Americanist Archaeology - Answers -was used to refer to theoretical work done by
North American anthropological archaeologists (e.g., Dunnell 1986; Lyman and O'Brien
2001, 2004).
C.B. Moore - Answers -Efficient and organized annual archaeological campaigns
Riverboat archaeology
Nels Nelson - Answers -First used stratigraphy
• Traveled to Europe to visit sites - stratigraphic methods in use
• In 1913 began digging stratigraphically in SW
• Used arbitrary (metrical) levels
A.V. "Ted" Kidd - Answers -First American PhD in archeology of North America
Promoted controlled excavation and analysis
Modified stratigraphy to construct cultural chronology of SW
Proved potential of aerial reconnaissance
James A. Ford - Answers -interested in work on Native American mound research while
growing up in Mississippi.
Americanist Archaeology
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