Chapter 2 Flashcards
Three Age System
Jurgensen Thomas - organizes artifacts into 3 periods, stone age, bronze age, iron age based on material manufacture
Neolithic
New stone age with polished stone tools
Paleolithic
Old Stone age living now with extinct animals
Archaeological Theory
ideas about the past and how we know it
Processual Arch
an approach to archeology based on firmly scientific method and supported by a concerted effort aimed at the development of theory
Lewis Binford
Deductive
general laws and methods
Induction
available data
middle age research
research observed in present to serve as a reference point to test hypotheses from the past
static
material culture
dynamic
human action
Cultural Resource Management
public archaeology carried out with the goal of migrating the effects of development on archaeological resources
system theory
society is a interconnected network of interacting elements
post processual archaeology
Ian hodder, arguing that archaeologists should imitate historians in interpreting the past
Etic
approach to analysis that does not adopt views from cultures to understand culture BINFORD
Emic
understanding the meanings people attach to their actions and cultures HODDER
