Chapter 12

Question 1

historical archaeology

Answer 1

the study of human behavior through material remains whose interpretation is in some way affected by written history

Question 2

critical theory

Answer 2

a critique of the modern social order that emphasizes exploitative class interests: it aims to change and not simply to understand society

Question 3

medieval mindset

Answer 3

the culture of the early (pre-AD 1660) British colonies that emphasized the group rather than the individual and in which the line between culture rand nature was blurred; people were seen as conforming to nature

Question 4

Georgian order

Answer 4

a worldview (1660/1680-1820) arising in the European Age of Reason and implying that the world has a single, basic immutable order. Using the powers of reason, people can discover what that order is an can thereby control the environment as they wish. The Georgian order is formed by the rise of scientific thought and by the balance and order in Renaissance architecture and art.