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archaeology - Coggle Diagram
archaeology
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1. humanities
humanities discipline
- human culture and past
- method AND theory
why humans?
- overload of info about animals, environments etc. archaeology is best at looking at humans, we need to decide where the focus is, other are better at.
- humans consume the environment
- humans has to be envolved somehow, otherwise we can look at anything
- broad range of people
- amateur vs. professional
- academic vs. commerical vs government based
- desktop-archaeologist vs field-archaeologist
- roman archaeologist vs medieval archaeologist
etc.
- material culture: artefact
*made by humans
4. material culture: ecofact
*natural object carries archaeological significancewhere is the line between eco and artefact?
*archaeology = there needs to be a human involved / human activity
- historical research question
collecting or finding sites for the reason of preserving them is *NOT ARCHAEOLOGY
we only:
- when we can answer a research question - when excavating
*research questions are historical
5. recent and distant past
*prehistory to garage archaeology written sources are (often) biased
- written sources says more about who wrote it than anything else
6. Global archaeology
- encounters in the past and the present
- world archaeological congress founded 1986*
7. exact and social sciences
- soft science meets hard science
- to date things
questions / ideas theory -- discoveries in the field -- research method PP archaeology as historical discipline bridging method, theory and discovery
- more than other historical sources (such as text were meant to read) archaeological material remains 'mute without a series of appropriate and often time consuming methadological steps
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the topic of topics
- sudden rise of food production
- population growth
- after the last glacial period
- across the globe
more than food production
- neolithic package - technology, pottery, tools, religion and monumental architecture)
neolithic revoution - Gordon Childe
- oasis theroy, man makes himself
- environmental change and drying of the middle east
from migration to diffusion (childe) - replacement of people and culture
defining archaeology
- material remains, eco facts, material culture, human past
- pre history / proto history
- excavation
- conceptual, theory,