lectures 5, 6, 7. Flashcards

1
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Archaeological record

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Human activity ( C- transforms)
Natural activity ( N- transforms)
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2
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Jens Jacob Asmussen

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Principles of association and superposition. stratigraphy?

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3
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Culture Historical Approach

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Emphasis on classification. Lack cultural change and explanation

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4
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New Archaeology

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Key influences on archaeology

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5
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Processual Archaeology

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Functionalist and technological focus. soul-less method vs method-less soul

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6
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Post-processual archaeology

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Lack social agency. more emphasis on cultural interpretation. artifacts as texts

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7
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Engendered archaeology

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Emphasis on women and children

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8
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Collaborative Archaeology

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Western versus aboriginal perspectives. respectful unbelief.

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9
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Cultural resource management (different from academic archaeology)

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Shorter time span, artifacts sorted by lots, development driven.

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10
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4 things that precipitate a study

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  1. seek to develop a property
  2. develop a resource
  3. try to build and finds something
  4. human remains
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11
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First thing you must do..

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Get licensing permissions

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12
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STAGE ONE

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Background study and inspection. research reports

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13
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STAGE TWO

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Finding sites, test pits

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14
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STAGE THREE

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Site specific Assessment. borden system. human remains may be found by accident. call coroner and police

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15
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STAGE FOUR

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Site Mitigation. avoidance and protection (buffer zone) or excavation

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16
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What percent of human communication is non-verbal?

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60%

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17
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Non-Human Primate communication is closed because….

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They can only emit a call in the appropriate context. cannot mix calls to create new ones- lacks arbitrariness

18
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Limbic communication

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Hypothalamus- regulates autonomic ns
Hippocampus- convert short to long term memory
Amygdala- response enhancer.
**ties emotion and memory. verbal and facial reactions

19
Q

Language allows us to learn without…

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Having to increase our brain size

20
Q

“Boy, i’m sweating, i’m awful nervous, you know, once in a while i get caught up, I cant mention, a month ago.”

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Damage to Wernicke’s area

21
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“9 o clock…a doctor…a girl…. two…two… ah…teeth”

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Damage to Broca’s area

22
Q

babies are born with their ___ high up

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larynx

23
Q

Children need exposure to___

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language

24
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Langage is ___ stingy but ____ rich

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Stingy

Rich

25
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What makes human language distinctive?

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Openness, arbitrariness, duality of patterning, displacement and prevarication, semantics and pragmatics

26
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Linguistic relativity principle

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Language has the power to shape the way people see the world.
STRONG VERSION- determinism
WEAK VERSION- shaping

27
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Pidgin languages

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No native speakers. two groups of languages need to communicate

28
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Creole languages

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Could be pidgin passed on a generation

29
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Michif

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An example of a mixed language. uses french and cree

30
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7,202 languages spoke worldwide. Only ___ languages expected to be spoken by 2100 AD

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100

31
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What is play?

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Generalized form of behavioural openness.

32
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Context dependent learning

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Walpole Island first nations. Tie physics to outdoor activities, project based learning

33
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3 parts of Art

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Form- cultural restrictions
Style- distinctive patterns of elements (schema) encoding of meaning
Media- means by which the art is carried out

34
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A repetitive social practice, composed of a sequence of symbolic activities. Set off from every day life.

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Ritual

35
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Play is based on the premise of metaphor.

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“let’s make believe”

36
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Ritual is based on premise of literalness

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“let’s believe”. more rigid than play.

37
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when the acts of everyday life are heavily ritualized. also known as correct practice.

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orthopraxy

38
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Rites of passage

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Separation- from old social position and from normal time
Transition- liminality
Reaggregation- reintroduction into new social position
**bridge gaps between known and unknown. social puberty vs physical puberty

39
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Living apart from society. Mourning period for widows. Freedom from societal rules

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Examples of liminality.

40
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Myth

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Recount how the world came to be the way it is. told by a narrator. Humanity’s place within the world.

41
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Edward B tylor. 4 Religious stages for societies

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Animism, Totemism, Polytheism, Monotheism

42
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A.R Radcliffe-Brown

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self-fulfilling prophecy. Why bad things happen to good people