lectures 5, 6, 7. Flashcards

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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
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Language allows us to learn without…

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Having to increase our brain size

20
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“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

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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
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babies are born with their ___ high up

23
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Children need exposure to___

24
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Langage is ___ stingy but ____ rich

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Stingy

Rich

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What makes human language distinctive?
Openness, arbitrariness, duality of patterning, displacement and prevarication, semantics and pragmatics
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Linguistic relativity principle
Language has the power to shape the way people see the world. STRONG VERSION- determinism WEAK VERSION- shaping
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Pidgin languages
No native speakers. two groups of languages need to communicate
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Creole languages
Could be pidgin passed on a generation
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Michif
An example of a mixed language. uses french and cree
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7,202 languages spoke worldwide. Only ___ languages expected to be spoken by 2100 AD
100
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What is play?
Generalized form of behavioural openness.
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Context dependent learning
Walpole Island first nations. Tie physics to outdoor activities, project based learning
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3 parts of Art
Form- cultural restrictions Style- distinctive patterns of elements (schema) encoding of meaning Media- means by which the art is carried out
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A repetitive social practice, composed of a sequence of symbolic activities. Set off from every day life.
Ritual
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Play is based on the premise of metaphor.
"let's make believe"
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Ritual is based on premise of literalness
"let's believe". more rigid than play.
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when the acts of everyday life are heavily ritualized. also known as correct practice.
orthopraxy
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Rites of passage
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
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Living apart from society. Mourning period for widows. Freedom from societal rules
Examples of liminality.
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Myth
Recount how the world came to be the way it is. told by a narrator. Humanity's place within the world.
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Edward B tylor. 4 Religious stages for societies
Animism, Totemism, Polytheism, Monotheism
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A.R Radcliffe-Brown
self-fulfilling prophecy. Why bad things happen to good people