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1800s for exam ‘choot cial logical ste of Hisar forthe home afte heres ofthe Trojan FGURE A Is Paras Prewsrony Waa chonklin Te iad that rade cel econo tide an tha been had 2 primi tose of tala) inched of archeological then be found gol mans cvided tat hoe wee the Silhapytavae tht what he bud thonght wee the nats of Toy wee probably Fan ogeter erent. Sta he ay have fucked taht through the setdement ‘cup droge pres period ofthe Trojan The aches cal diferent fom tat fe nee the pane of Top that cima Ie se or He would wake dtd map at ‘eying found old be sted to ext the dincsonal corns. And he ca nd fn Th most profound diene betwen th arches ver, isn research objectives: Almost alle vere looking fo specie things (gue 1), Tey sem fo have had ile fee of the pore of heir finds except aco and valuable le of bygone age Most conterorary archeologists, onthe other hand ty to look beyond the objects they fd a sec 3 ne profound understanding ofthe pat and of oul nition 10 that ofthe presen, WHAT ARE ARCHAEOLOGISTS LOOKING FOR? (THE MEANING OF THE PAST) Mosc achs Tegel sans these hinge pout of ive Tse thing are of tn oe the pst rnany pele Titeaing 1 | found. And tent "et no about ua the paterss sue, bor th ‘tour et those pater long hor plant Aiph Hi bevexpain panto why did The iad. oks show Trecordsof prem had aati sacologial gold masks esi in 2 satik. and When he ter he wat tht what ete probably have Raced e etlment he presumed intent ap so bat ha occ ih evey tbe nost alles hove hd ile fe objet ean Prceston, Heron, AND Anus Most archeoogits pen yt githering lbs of stone, bone and poster that would ‘ot ares the atetion af» museum goer for more than a few eco he then spend rh ofthe rest of thi ives in Hare like recta asking thems an end and largely waned sere of questions, sich a "What doe is Su mean!” "What do these things tl me about what appeal inthe pat and wy # happened?” "Whats he point of ivetigating the past” "What can U hope to kw abet the people who made hse thing? “Are thee cas ans that we can Meni that explnn te couse and ature of human hiton#™ "Dos the past have ny slewnce for ou ove ives?” "What dows the past met Thisoncrs wih the meaning ofthe pst isone of the most diicult conceps or the son-archacol rrany people sha to understand aout contemporay profesional archeology” and for ers an son tht arcaesagy st th plesant pursuit of ertng falc in exotic loc, Most non-achasologts,enserpsingy, would be much more intersted, for example, cing the gold mask ba Schliemann ound at Try than in listening to pros a achacologits debate the inferred wocioeconomic and ples ranzation of he Sst illnnin sc town at Tepe Hisar where these masks wer found And yetitis jst sich bes ot te pold masks, ht involve kinds of questions malt sontemporacy archaeology "et no one cin comyehend what conteraporary achacoogy—or this oki ll shout until ene nersand this eet seach or ot jan the arcs ofthe pat, but the paterns and meaning of our past. Most ahacologist ze not us ying to ans specie questions ach 3 whit ot hom ancestors frst wed stone tools fr oF why the Neandertals disappeared, or how the ancient Egyptians bulk pyramids. in every archeological exesation or esench proc many specie questions sick an hese a at ius but the context ofthis earch cm involves the more abstract gal of ting to tonerstand the factors that have determined the course of human hisiory and the nature ‘our ules, and thus not only to see paler inthe pst a ko to understand {hove patterns appeared—and to explain a ste sense he get variably inthe mors long bison of cture, ‘may seem odd tha archaeologists even consider the possibilty tat something sppatety so chaotic x huran story tay have some undetyng patien oe meaning oF {Explanation How could histor ht canbe radially affected bya singe person lke Adolph itr, o ind et potent natural race such asthe end ofthe lt ee Age ever ‘be explained in general terms? Bu scholars roughout the ag ve sought ust ha ‘planation. The questions they have ask inthis tad ae many, ila ad important for understanding ouresves a umanty there sae fst wy eset a have eave in the ditection of eve grate orexampi, that eplis elas, sacha the himpasee, and al other animal em have retained rately tiny bait oye rae? Why afer huaashad ved for aboutwo and aba milion yas as simple hunter foragers, dd some of our ancestors siden” ‘come farmers Soon afer about 10,000 year go, and not just nthe Old World bat “independ” in the New Weald as wl dnd at ab the same time? Why were all alent cvilations organi interns of acl css instead of according to the democratic iets ‘spouted by many plosapher over the milena? Why does wartare ss to have been $0 common in stay when thete are auch apparent advantages to cooperation and pe? Why did large cities appear in ancient cia sim Mexico, China, Pakistan, 4 | Pare Preston the acho rely “drive” history, a Kael Powerful individuals desde the cour of nything of meres about where we dv one as been shown snd explanation ofthe past have ts Study, then potas we are aking thew sskng have no rel answers This book, in ay the war's pasta hen review a 8 "The eyes tha we an aspire to unde the way it has ip one of the most etl dba am 3257 ae arc arpuc so hate Cn Undestnd f at that human “reife in tn goverments merely a8 byproducts ofthese bis economic dynamics, os da eat 9 Does “hepa” realy est fone analyzable form and sense, or is what we eal the pat just our evanescent nd unanalyable imagining about something retrievable? Dae the past wt Sing aout oar, an we haveany ntl ‘over out fature, or are it leves on the steam of ie and ccumstance? Libraries stound the wor are filled with book hat represent seer! milnnia of steps to nave these and elated quessons. Many complexbeoreofhioryhave been et nd powerfl explanation ofthe ot the mesg railenaia of rplee issues in contemporary chacology. Bric aehaco logists Michael Shanks and Christophe ile for example frgue thatthe human pa ff an empirical scence that explains sory the sense of answering is 2 seientie fashion the nds of questions just posed about why history has toed tt he way its. ‘Thy ne ist ater ermine of the past ae ast, snother “ex” and Yo, i ferent people and also haevery feud” of eer text inl igtherchacolg who reads he sschacoogieal record, is fo bound by his or her own ful bis and forms tat ‘here cam be no sch thing tiobjie or dfntve ade other ch development plo alear—the pi tek of ee sect ros th ook, arti pot of Fen to sral sitet ARCHAE( CULTURE meninges faa know foresal that hs foil it dinoeurs at ut i ‘al Vaan ec in oligos odo areat ay ext in post ell trl male of ryhave bees he meng renin of il pt of astrned out ‘Shanks and yon ers a scentfe wy histor tevsy ithe sabe tera sad ths, ike past ca Be ent by Tale thst ery jsonbo reads Such thing 35 tigre 2) Prensront, Haro, a0 ARCHEOLOGY ‘oer scours argu hat the pst canbe analyedsientifcaly apt with the are development of power the como 08 a Although we frend shall earn to these sus in tis back, oe Ang seem cleat “theproy protien in answering questions abou the meaning of the pasts ta Jack ofedenc, All over the woe, muscu selves groan unde the weight of ceramic et wone tos, andthe broken sally of our ancestor. Archaeologists have excited ‘eyhing rom est known han canis fev aa all alin yeas ago to ery Sventeth-cetury Manta. And eer yea, archaeologsts inthe thousands readout arrow the lobe to eeavate more emia ofthe past and they thn provide the resaltsof Shep eveuch othe callengs sa the worl inthe form of hundreds of thousands of Tn there into hisses of ats and figure, he reader sould in arshaclogts nmin on the rata itig though the garbage ofthe pat These ere complex issues, and fo Betin ur alyac thers is essa 0 conse the basi logical strate of ream oi traonay fos been practiced and vome examples of feaesogi sass Trt Doo, we wll review thousand of thes sts, but wading [ARCHAEOLOGY AS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EXTINCT ‘CULTURES AND THEIR HISTORIES ieee Whether one views the pst andthe world's archaeological record asthe product of & rata exlainale on predicaledevlopnent pater ost schol PeE eons ‘he tut te uly based onthe principle known tothe Romans vs sau erally om the cy, the on othe notion that fom apart tan now the whe through te proses of talogy an inference one nos eh tha as Ben Inserted petal in place ofthe mis Fens quite common ete Yodayaher cnr o seth, for Upem o chung fimosou reconstructions on exhibits to elit He ideas about the arrangements of bones ‘When we lok at atemp to reconsract entre cares not just bones the prnsipes are the ste sin diosa econstactions: We we the preserved pars t infer misng Alements base on on knee ypenltonsn some stations te inferences one Ist rake ceo sous axite ad the evidence sable seems 30 comp nections see prticlry compelling Arche ‘etfs the oman ound in he is for example, bave cub of Egyp's Tutankhamun (Figures 13 and UA) and hg enon of inti analss and irene we seerinaly can know ot 6 | Parems w Ponsrone shout thipharu nd is coltre, Suis of his txt for examen Disgeneti relationship toi elites some cf whose mummified bodies have sh been found nase ofthe food und wine wth which his tomb ws Supplied appear orefect both what he at this ie and apparealy hoped tot nthe net oles of the cat —- Fernie and jel reflect the ut ad cra of hi age ad studies of the itsrptione on his cms wall bin coetempaary documents oe dseiptions This rigs bli and BF iversistory ‘What makes reconstructions sch a tht of Tutus’ life and 3 thy aa nahn ov es wena undesadse mes obo, y . Inpro ter tnd os lca abled yee ® of ur on experiences, and ft many peopl hey esti all or oat of what we can hope to learn aboat the ast. We tink we “know B—Totarsanun ia ery eal and prsoal seme. And for ssny people the pleasures of rus" they experience when they read dbo thse Yeon stron and interpretations equ 8o ges there asian. Dall, Indeed ould be the petoa insensitive sich pleasures. We do not kao Bu sn a never Kove, what ely wet on in Tatankhan’ mind, bt by 7 onsdeing his tomb contents most Of think we can know ot aout his ‘silent. ‘it, the tehology oh times his len the royal bureaucracy nds 0, FGURE 13 Tne com ‘at are our analyses necessary limited to these speculative recon Tuzldaman’tom provided yet of Tatas se anne orcas go farther in tempting aid pte of to understand Tataklamun? We migh, for example, conser hit ohare sfancin E teen just one example of the case asd sate societies tnt xed allover the ancient word: Rich scent tombs like Tutahamen’sbave bee found in (Chins, or, Mei a and many othe places Thus Totenbhana pat of hori pattern in which all of te more complex cvliatons” of woiqty 0d tod have been {Und continue to be urganired on the base of wealth and social cases. And thus, Tutalhamu brings ss back othe most bic and important questions of Bistorel analysis such as: Why di thes societies, Old and New West ake, able gey Independently vole vocal ssteas based on inherited prvlege a wealth in which he rest mas of humanity Inbored min forthe bene of srl ete lou? By aking hese and questions abou the pas we nad not tiie the pleasures an reward of sumply eying reconstruct past Une and clues sd their people’ ves people for whom ws can fel x great deal of Kinship and even sympathy. But cveD Teconstrtions ens that we know get deal abot use insportant questions abot tschoclogcalneence nd about the “pnt of sh recorsrotians, On abot Ags 24a, 9 for example, group of poole an alan coal ove conde «fant wonder at Sai atthe seal sree dee, 3 fat, eesuse t Pompei ad a thebangoes the eruption a eas Kiled and thee flow their neighbor nist of thet (Wigace 15) 4 sucking ie bn foods Were fou money ms mesa et nd por ayn bodies of town found cred om they wer tying ‘vas found sca elton of da Showy sve ate body fi Written pet in eh sl life was des ‘other opinions was recorded by Whether a camp of eat ‘kscribes the da Yeti in sh Dee eeeek ee eeeeeceee eee eeeece cece ace eee Meee Preston, Haron, ano Anciarosocy | 7 inate service fora frend by siting sodiesave dowa vo banguet, We ea nity bed SSH at the meal, but we know ree the a iad ft because this Towa, Wat Pompei and at ome point 9 the eruption ofthe yoleano of Vests led them al. Tha and thei fallow ctzen, and their neighbors in Herel aneum, were preserve inthe Init oftheir dally ese (igure 1.3). A halecooked suckling peered, and oer ns ie and nt by eae coc based foods were found in ovens, wsfthe past money wa eft ea alten site alot vee “knoW orl the ston Dull, fo not kno sind Bat BY Ta about is thm to have clalloverthe en found in ‘tahini ad pupils on rary able found ear ove the children they were tyngtoprotectand vs found watered over the floor of s room filed with voleanic ash, ear dhe intact ‘etn of do cine toa ake—saggening thatthe dog Homly starved and eventually ‘Wiiten. language aids penlyin'feshingout” uta day have besa Feconsrctions Heculaneunss FIGURE 14 altar Sich the Fac ene Tye deed sane prion of Abi Lr ofthe Wet ein surviving documents ever hive graft on brothel wal describing the charms of particular proses nd ther apinions common to sch ens. Inf, Pompe and Hecuaneunsdstaction ‘rar rordedby peopl ho took bouts ou to eo watch pleases and oper Bee iy. But even ‘Whether an echacologi tying to construct Pompe or a two-millon 4-0 ‘amp of early hominins in Aca, the intention ithe sare: Just asap ethnogeapier ‘Secrbes the dll the people he o he Lives with ad ix ting, a acho iting analogy and inference for direct observation, uses ancient abject to Feconstract as mucha posible about the de, ecology, residences bul paces, and Iuies “in short the iways and clues of ancient people. tons beat 8 Pare m Pacneron {ue ent othe tno Ihe Ponpal say sem spt dy sal Sd se of dead cahures Bute in the ectnigue of cata swt imagery chemi aa models, sophisticated com puters and other techniques Ere aval to lp the ath Sse inferences about the ice fone iamprovement clr ron stations often inde sarge smear of specu, particulaly when dealing with extremely ancien societies, whose oi analog and thus may aguz ven more Dhan more ecentsocietcnvole And tsar eeentaly infinite: One can alwayvercavate ihe thio discovery has ‘of, most archasologit gin to wonder jst how inpertnt its to know, or example recomsractions. The resonsracion ofthe dog at Herculsnesry et ithe bey af his mistress may sem compelling, but one can imagine alternative interpretations and reconsratons of ls well-preserved and aes sites are ch es persue than those oncocted about the ong dead of Pompei and Herculaneum. In sbort. one can make oP ‘stremely eonincing tres abot what happened a some acient plac, or wht sme ancient atfacts wete used for, but well never be able to confirm such inferences inthe wayan astronomer’ understanding of eel mechanics ie confrmel by the exact prediction of elias, Tn this same context consider, fr exam, the temas of crocs we (Wenke) fond while excavating in Egypt in 961° We dconered that one ten tat had been fet hnred meters fom the shoreline of lke the late fit lenin a. contained many coco bonesbut no crocodile skal or teh. Evidence india tht this area wes Probably the site a temporary cam cupid in ping nd fall where people cme to Fish and fut eigratery bids, One evening fer along day's ld work and inspted one perhaps ot” Bers, we evolved the publ notion tht the ancient Eytan their heads trek the jastone-op samepatter cavefly fo, oton tat that people this site, and similar ach yp paca ened ‘nclng ou Thus an spl ofa Impulse to Sita tn crample, dle aman Pyramid B contained tndesphered Jantosares father om But the Strvton aad Aidit ove Time, Cau he rot of sever de altel tema a thematic cited cm twchoigues ap he ar about the these many ital recon she sage Fine. And Tor comple body of is scan ke op we (Wenke) adbeen afew thine people came ind aspired by wn, toad Prewcrony, Hon, ano AROUAEOIOSY ransprting the “eb” parts of hills back to camp, the gutted the imal a off thee hes and dard than toot onthe tock othe ste eeore, we just cura body bones ot, and thea Drought terest ofthe caress ‘Nowe e soul go ack nd “et this hypothesis by excoating ther tes to se ifthe same pate ffound daewher on the lie sore, orbychesking the cr Careful for cut mas orin any panier ae plausible ways We could ko generate hs spi ides and te some hype about general ultra fotion that hunters and teres tended to ear hes with he est eat on theme Or we could gen {hat people tend to avoid work t mach as pss Acti problem with elton contractions sich a theses guy: One can imagine many difleent aleratve explanations for ut fading few rode hed arte st thissite and ery fern factors and combinations ofits could prod extremely Similar arhacoogicalreconds and inthe end all hat oe could show tha one Iypothss is more probable than the oes. And such hypotheses woul relly only be ric interesting inthe context of ome theory our ancent res some ‘Srralized principe about the fStors that determine the esr of eats Including our ro tag bunch fancies Egyptian croc bunters esis, ch the et ance those sal se sil farther ap es the notion Ts archatlogklreconrratons of cient cules are probably. clos to tha staple ofan ton, "ene el" as humans aeltly 0 achiev and the poweeal to travel in ie, atleast eter, that motivates many ache acho, geno and nly one ch ie revel opportunity, woud Probab have {iful time choosing among to many interesting es snd paces. One could go, for Ihominin ancestors made a living (a problem to which much of chapter 3 i devoted; oto Franc t about 000 years ap to dace thereat shot Neandersan oo mo fet humm anesthe Shot Fp wdtenne oe and a ow the Fram ecu chaps hyo ans Tu Vale 4.00 ee 69 ear ha Tomine inthe thn of Haappn writen documentsone oe wore decd si caper 1) prog fies ned Toth mpoant oiBre tht vn if one pid obs in neon yan Greve tom pravus tan adapt : oboe with Chats Diino Kat! Marx or another othe fouring Time, Causality, and Culture History Atempts to econiruct the past may be stati" in th nse tht in staying the ng dead ‘Sizes of Pompei wey einer on ino they fed the they were al ke 10. | Parr m Prowstoxy But mot atpes to analyte pat involve some sens of etc lyin the form When wearedea salut changer overtime Reconstrocting aint altars and puting them int cron ven with the Bel Tag sequence ate usualy conemerry pa of ny axchaesogil wwe pnt Eegortions © The wens of tea inne sttching Dehn and ahead of sos we ourselves ow Tis unr Along the steam of tne, is very aniet An accra cognition of the tvesome tt such ay that ssle othe pas Somer, sal acne, Today vay every eda prion Kaos pinnacle of Wes and accepts that our human ancetry extends back milion Of years ad that our The ninten 3m ‘iilztons have slow evolved over hows of years Bt thi sent ofa place is ine chalice ‘Coal ute non, The tection ort enthe widespread aceptance—-of thee that Irnans evoleec ‘and oar worlds ave Bao er fr millon af erst only boat a cenary ld itl the exponen” intent centarys oe Western people accepted the lal mpliatin thatthe word tended to ase ‘es aout 6:0 years ol aha alos for the very begining war ancstors had ved pretisorc peop intowns engage in aricultre and organised themslvesin get states ap empires Bat Soda ng nietethcenuzy excavations dee? below the round lvls of many Europe ci Sach rconst ‘veld the bones of animals ong extinct, auch as marmot and ce bead aide for example are} runy ofthese hones wre stone too. Byte erty twetieth entry Ye grea antigo ‘etal and yal Fumankind was evident, i today almost all Knowledgeable cette seep that Our avon equal lest homini,teol-asing ances led about ro as half lion yee 3g Thivids of contracting te hse of cure werk when nei dealing sy the Roman Epis, ere there re writen record and the cidence of tous of ARCHAEOLC tis. But how do you wrt cure histories of prcistorie people who lo write FOR EXPLAII records and of whom elite nore thane senso leon and crade nt oot? = The mun method of altar hsory ito make lege coletins of arate stone sand everyting ee made deposited by people) rr each ie heir howe, dpaes, ot warkslace) ay then ake tlt of brane infer perpen 7 ‘Much culture history as Been done on spl comparisons fates My assis atomic bi sow eke far example once wala the lin of woth ran fo five sth ‘emaration - ce about the cular laonstipe among the people wha Made thse poe, sone too, or bate. Calletng bap of broken potery fm the thowstnds of ancient villages ad town fo be cri Found here Most ofthese ld aetlenients ae now jas mounds of decomposed mud ks spelen ul ube and re Iitered th thousands of ecrap of broken potery and sone. Through ‘arinus dating methods (chapter 2), we knew the styles of potery hat were i use 0 teen ance periods ths part ofthe world To the experienced analy, for example Simmly arin $s figient ofa Svan (cp. 25-640) cy pot tue dren fom a Late Urs soviet that er 32008.) ceraerapent howghrboth ae tpeetivy gh, Enh ay we eed would web yi ‘up the numbers of dferent types of potery se cle from each it ites tht had the oii ‘ery simi ind of pottery were assed to ave been occupied a about he sme time tlon years ‘tod to have interacted soir or economy hose with may ier peer oes Pant and col were assumed to ave boca occpied a diferent times: On this basi seflement ape tthe wont For several suceve periods of aceopatin in thi ares were infred snl 9 :00-yst World ana te shure History rostrci complete with states a changes is population dest surysone ou igi systems, posible wars, probable economic callsues—in ater Won, 2 rich, mot of gi ren emitonally moving, istry of people knows alos exclave fon 34 batt of population en pote te In technology Such clare story “works” inthe sense tht through sing these methods, we now pfu 0 now roghly what nds cf cultures inhabited most of the word ring ost ofthe pt Asi about 100 be see eeee eee eeceueceeaeaeacaaasacd agar: pe other mon evs that oor iacein ie hee that 1 Unalth he wor osha sed cant 0 stat thousands of sled ool thir hoses the cular one months a ww 0 be ed ad bs ‘one Though scorexmple me ae a Rte tat bad wae sou Prerony, Haron When we are dealing with thereat sn change of yes in eal stone tools owen meen the help of meer chen datgtcnaqus we ose form ony rough ‘Mregoatons of ime ine perads andres of thousand f yt one Ti unfernate bat probly ecapble dat culture hisoris such a wy that al the panacea Western frets wee aranged Ike ian ae, eading to the Feticn Because American and western European eultares of Fara cert and aly vent entre mete echalogaly the pot advanced,” he aaah cord hasten eon viewed is terms the way which madera Western aaa from the fret cultre-Dearing animals: Thas, cultural histori srnaon ofr example, tespenate of agriclureand rb comntites ve tended to nue tht these developments were te “nara” and eae oducts of sess pols who, like many Westerners were conn tying to eaprowe di nrd of ving and di so throvgh echnolnga development Sach recurs of cal isries ae prone ro many problems, No histone for capes purely descriptive o entelyateortcal. Thee cannot be an absolutly we eT tha ae-fes history, partly an arcacolgill “tory.” where interpret ‘Hom fequnt sae Beyond the evidence ARCHAEOLOGY AS A BODY OF THEORIES AND METHODS FOR EXPLAINING THE PAST hiner ony fica tented atest be Po simply arranging aehucolagcl sites in time and making inferences abot the socks tht crested hem doesnot si he pas otc we explain the pas’ Wha old webe eyngtn explain, and how? Take, for example somethings apparey simple wi orgs of spelacea topic dlscused io deta in chaps 6. Af two and a lf Blllion usar umer-foragers abou 1000 us ago 0 ances gant domestica ents ad ulate them, Ferming did ot appear none place and then spread 2 te Tek Be worst densune io any diferent pce at abou the sme time in Bath the Od Work! and the New and involed thowands of specie, om hs toca leks ees Surely one woul think. wih patent archaeological research one shoud bs able to finde st of spree egne perhaps a combination ff example, isreasing human Bein es lm cg fe hen ee re rn idence of such changes might be Sought to show that they caused scalar to oat tan thoy expin in fet why agriculture appeated in Southwes ‘sin about 10,00 years ago and wot 2000 of S00 eas ag, and why was practiced u 12) Parte Prowsrony first in Southwest Asa, and only much liter i southwestern Nonh America, And i we ovldesplain acura Sire ns i his sion it ses plausible that we might formate ratonsfor he nna wing, tn male elt asso structed sch explanations, oe For cease some scholars have worked on the emi that we cn more than st Jkserige the past We can understand ein term of genealprinciplee-generl Pini ta be formated by some future Darwin athe historic sciences Afterall unlike thn he sty of seein a they uty or existed inthe Fecet pst archaeologists con stay changeover the longterm, oer the thee milion yeas ‘four sory. is this eat ime dep tat ste mary sr tone of re the pattern in human istry, ade define the ‘termina itl tly ee that ye sty the whole swe ofthe uma Past inl itary Whe ask nthe 1960s for is opison au theo ao Zedong sported tow cay otek” Wie enpect maj caval ynemic ee leg tam. Bute ba ‘ist and detailed Knowbage about mons of year of the sue, some major changes sel be explana Inc however, awe wil tein det there nbn single nothing obo such tempts to expan the pat. Ache ‘es enteering sich fer wether ont we wll ever be able to expan he past 0 theseterm, and wha “esplenaton” i Phys Steven Wolfram far exam, bs sce argc tht there are no simple catseandefee explanations of such phenomena 2 nocen clztions,” Iytead, agus tape syne than hae a deerme in Span and an evoationary trajectory can best be understood as algorithms, Many ahacolegts ve ls interest older eas of explanation atid hae faced istend the pst. Theiss wil Be considered at Iength roughost tuners i the cet of th history A SHORT HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE PAST he ree anions tec oa plunge a the bond ex anya ie phos a pecbistory ay at his piat hy af scene and history, but simpy posible to understand wit contemporary archacologists are doing and why without bit ‘acusion into Western inlecoahsory. what comtemporty seco think set woeld history and how they go about interpreting fae ineacalyfnked 1 Two cr nuh Rin nn day fore cr Sant ar com tera eur na ‘Stn Herodotis anal Thucydides ive, the te sort by aang 2 cual cain he Eayptans, Same (Greeks did It is reabworl expan (Grek and bse Another cen Simp scholars detope Ce Aad if we hrm ioon, And spring tbe rl ences ally ake ext inthe ‘lon yar Pdstabase of obvious about grat ide inthe ps 8 vba eel phenomena 3 rithms. May ced instead gh thoughout iy impossible ingly thot a beet coogi tink Faby inked Proton, Hstony, io AncaeoLocy eristemologcl sues of hae we Know and the nat ad init of ou knowledge) tions any centuries od, And beyond he eerance of hei Sten wil ind ha the des reviewed in thet, peemeate al othe hamanier pd a vices in Wester neler The work's Itertueislitered wth attempts to understand pce ia the oxen and make sens four past. Ancien Net astern erate especially weld in the “onpartely ate and derate form of the Od Testament, envisioned 4 abe, cete world i which great changes came about through divine inercenon, and where te dinate explanation of events was in tems of Gs Wil—which wesc "asin 9 los Jacl” Fr the devout Christan, Musi, and many thes a wl even if we could ss ie disine design of history more cleat, we would se tat ts predestined, beyond the ral of human initiate one aly belves hat the course of he world’s vents and tory isan until expesion of Divine WU then istry becomes simple post ‘kscripton, no analyie— ana imple tbe sath for knowabl, estab cases. Ie far at we kno, the ances Greks weve the fist people to tink profoundly (or pethaps they were simply thes reid thet thoght) about he prob fas td [tin a supposedly divinely directed word "We ae all Grek, ita boe si, becae So much of modern Western thought i limatly traceable to ancient Greece. Som ‘chose! that te Greck were more exp it debt tothe caltars than we 5s simply though about the wold oes Herodotus for example was the fis asta swe Koo to ual widely and compile extensive descriptions ofthe people culties, and paces 9 is word ina ay that was aaa I the Bf cenry mc or example visited ype and Besa intigued by the question ofwhy the Nile aed each and every 2prng. He esked Egyptian scholars everwhere e went and found tat the Nike oe tid fellacctdingto thal ofthe ge Heyodotor then posed o analyze several resonable Alernatie pesbies—all of them wroog-—but all expressed mainly in terms of win rip, sun, and Herons snaed edt sot ssc the N's od othe incl lo the sods Similary in his late foonbcentury nc. history ofthe Peloponnesian Wat, {Thucydides tied to explain bow the Suge began. He described the personales 2 chan he i wht sy oder it wold dn elng to cxpli the ve ofthe past Archacloialy Base culture histories are founded precsely ot his lg ayes, Sumerian, and many olbers recorded aspects oftheir histores But ther sumving records do not wet the word or history in the same aaltal ion hat the Gees di ea mak of how culturally Grok sos of ws are that what Thies da Sens so ema and natural to deserve coment, Bat ata hie otf ‘eal-weld explanation of the ours of history seems to have been widely ss sty the Glee wnd became common in many othe atures ony recea™ Another central tenet of modern archaeology with Greck 100% Is evolution lutonary theory was ist leary stated by Chatles Darwin, ad the ancient Grek had fon aap ese of hie idee. But aleady by the fifth century mez the Athenian scolar Brpodoces ad formulsteds version the principe of atural selon. And other Gres Shas developed radentiry since ch geomorphology and bil 2 4 | Paremsn Peston FIGURE 2.6 The ansentGrsk view ofthe ‘Bee nti ain hoa gh limps of the fc che the world very ancient and that Pant and animal have changed ove ine These des of evoton nd scenic naj however, vrei some contrat 3 concept much more seta othe ancient Gresk view ofthe worl the notin ofthe ret Chin ‘of Being tbe Sela Natura which founded on Greek ess Shout the nature of Godan “perfetion.” Grek philosophers found i inconcrivable tat the wold they knew could bane aren by chance, ctu thee seemed 1 be suck a proce din nis every par The tite interdependence amo Plant and annals the rgularity ofthe seaons—the whole aural workd—exhbited fo them poo of the existence of Supreme Ineligence; they theretore defined God as the pert ing who crested and contr the world, The Gress onception of pefeton, however hal somewhat ifeen ‘connotation tha it doc fru, for they underside ‘Suen wholeness, oconletnts (concept vii vient, for example, in lil Greck statues) Eure 8) “rol rporculr, formule the ies ofthe word a3 Great Chain of Being, pres in its completes Fig 117). He concluded tht the natural world way rationally ore according to eat he charmingly ald "powers of ‘oul sprseting diferent es within the preety whale tive Ths, hose higher than a slower because a hore ca think afer aio, and ata higher than hore bosause he can reaton and apprehend God. ary European schol were greatly inflaenedy the concept ofthe Great Chain of eng Ty though imposter ‘hal be “ising ls” inthe chain that any parts of the hain should eae fo ei {Go ing perfec could not create an imprints univers tar could His sustaining powers allow a whole level f the perfection to vai This ion was lll atthe very core of European culture when the English post Alexander Pope Vast cin of being! which fom Go began Natures athe human, angel, maa, Beat id ats nec wat ye cn 8 No lasscan each om infinite to the rth nti Were wet pres infror might on ours (inthe flection lst 0 Where one step broken, te great sees dato’ d— From Nature’ chin whatever link you sibs, Tenth, ten thousand, este chai alike Theda ofthis ret Chai of Beng pervades Wester erature and scence and coninues Senet arguments By these who ea he apes rtd ts hve the bile story of Creation fled in Ameria elementary es elution The once humeer, ny ‘onary theore sschacolgy A igeatantiquy reveled Crested and #4 happened that ‘exten, Hour Howe could hu lower primate years ubh Tis ey the es ofthe the naterwor than the anal wear here a Susi and int Gad designed porpones and Sovarship oF fhe las 200 bees fogs prada nd pr the notion tvidence forth tobe known i mdr ae neces iy powerin he w boom ander ast The Enligh Not unt the Snel fighsemh an things and The than 3 iments by those India American Prewsrony, Heron, ano Anovato.oay nth en under ssl The Enlightenment ‘Not until he “Enlightenment” of the seventeenth and cghtenth entries were the Setlictl securely extlished, Then, ima inthe i mg wth a ew assumptions The key ides ae thit mos i no al 16 Params Preston and thatthe best wdfn meme these force is to conceive ides an then ‘Expo them olson through scien exerimentaton or data ans, ‘Although his sound to most peopl Ue nothing mor thin como ys, history sho that isa athe ate and ste pecepion af he worl, For moe sens and many moderns, the world swarms with phenomens and forces that ean never rama entece th detstod by scene o them, in fic precisely thse aspects nave de scent understand or explained, sich a wy we ae ere al he nature sn snation of he mn soul, a the mot important, ut, bulding on Greek des sventeeath: and ighteent- century scholar observed natural Sci and istorcl phenomena, devil ypothess bout her ass adhe fered then dese by dropping balls rom the tps of bugs (Galles, ing is > lighining storms (Franklin ad a. Wo wos scetcly cent thse anaes ws that the eas be exposed to fatiention oF contraction by sme sort expec tion a alternative interpcttion, that, above all, the exPlanation of something Be oder not abolute ttl trath, bat jut the Dest corent hypothe subject oreo in height ae research The tei nl eterinst clements in thin of cae mre the sstumpons thot dhe phetomens of ths World-—including historical and cata! phenomena had tome akimat causation, that, were in some way determined by knowable eae rater tots sch population sow, ens mutation ifetions, or avy one the worl, then one sbould lok for explanations nthe causal remningthe abuts of phere, notin san decisions Feltiontip and prose tr dvine agency. The evlstionary component was the notion what ove Hime here had teen and would contin to Bean increase in compen the nog Msi, polit world--an ancient notion There 0 necessary cont between tes ea of Western science and ligon Few ofthe scholars of the Enlightenment were wowed atheists. Renjamin Franklin did important scent esearch in the eightenth ceatoy, the was loge serious ec Be ‘lait “wine ctnning root that God lores every mich and wae Us 0 be hay. Thomas lfeson one ofthe mos versa intlecs ofthe eighteenth and early inetcenth centuries bleedin Gext—an id any of hiscontemporariessa kindof Great Clock Maker, who ae the universe in tption but doce not often intrade upon i oPetation Felton in fet “sienically” cited the Ble that e considered exentialand he considered mythic an bce, and produce The sf menage dtingeeryth Fei Bibles paspht of about for cght page. The Ealihtenment scholars made brit advances i determining the physical mecha ofthe rivese and hey avi looked fo the mechani of human Nistor, but ict hetween their siece and their Ble that God erated these ost found ‘echnical eer int operation. The Ealightonet was ie ay the crucible of modern sinc it was in may Ways ‘he period in which the saci perspective ofthe Wes st med parca with epard ception of material culture By the end ofthe eighteeth i was understandable in term of th 0 the notion of progres and ha shown that the natural wo othe simple posible tera) ieasof materi, ‘egant ies comprehensive yt edu i phyie One estas that cholas everrhere hop app dh sient method a the problem of ural origins, For exp forte understanding of aman Bs the Ma frenent ‘ch ie tory and teson Thee éemmonpac cal cen owes cn Tamar (72 theo yrs from hasan covering inth srcen pp Thomien in the hinds al ad brome, bo EC Changh ig. Nineteenth Determinis unos Basa Helton ans formed hr conten fret age ad of which wat N Sent and fe risen as observed yng te 0 reprint someth the anumptions renorenn bo ines urna desions oh historia and nin raskin did i stobebapP) ota Great Cock I sential and sing the physical hum history but (Gov rete these Proastony, Hstonr, ano Aachasosocy ned the history of human socal organizations, snd he went firasto use his anasto uyt prod the fatare ofthe mol Sach die applications the physical scence model hi bout one most understand the eights sentry mind. “C might seem scans neon sense” tll ha history and eultre are fr to completo expla interns of simple mathematical as bt common sense ao tll ws ht walk about on a at eat, around which eval theEnlighenment ad aly cnt ormon sense was ad how the mysteries thesun The schol 0 een shown how teacerout the univerte were Being reduced to th Meunwhieall around them ret advance i the bil In France, Georges Cue (1769-1832) undertook an extensive anal offsite tyes and concled that hundreds of anil specie had become extinct and that here seemed to bean evolutionary tajcory othe bali world. The French matali fan {nmack (1748-1829) published various argument tha the word wan much ode han the 6000 years describe in the Bibl onde arangd ths boli wes na sequence from burn being othe smallest avertbrates in way sil ‘Scenic archaclogy based on evolutionary soir assumptions was aio merging inthe lite eighteenth centary, when PF. Sah pbs in 1276+ Histry and Hosen, based on the recgaton than any parts of Europe cent people first made tals of tons, then ofbrone, and dnl of om. This Thee Sytem Was st leary tated and then developed by the Dana arch Thomsen in 1836 and by I. Worse (1821-1885).” But is origin ae much elie ei (6 98-55 mth ret Roman sho, waote that “The earest weapons were the hands, mails and tat then came stone, and cls. These were followed by ot and bronze, but Bronze came fist the se of ron bing nen unl te.” And as KC Chang has note" a near-comemporary of Laces, the Chinese whol Yass ang sted eset the same en, Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism, Materialism, and Determinism Excavations forthe London Undergrond Rl inthe mid-1800s produced maay ous fins, among them the bone of animal thal so at clephansike animals standing! fet high athe shoulder, ad let thee $edeons amidst those of gigantic cave Dect and many ter ania that no long led Inrtain—or anywhere ein the world “Anil dnote Nouhian dele soe fonciuded. But others sought scientie explanations. In Eagland in the 1830s, Wiliam “Sua” Smith and Cares Lyel, among ater, attempted to sbow thatthe tr wa Formed through the ation of slow geological procesesproceses sil ine. Lye ntnbutions were parculyimponant cane the dawning relation ofthe ath. Breage had led sone scietsts and ergy to alien seres of ctestop hes” the a fick was Noches si animal bones dep in stayed the wld rious tas with ods nd. Adherent ofthis poston sw the theca’ staat evidence that God ha w 8 Pets Pans 1 1848 John Star Mil published 20 evolutionary ans of history that postulated sequence of six tages (1) Rung, (2) pastoraim, (3) Anat by whe mest the ‘rea iigationcseaon# of China pd he Middle Ea), (1) Greco-Roman, () feudal, id 6) capa. He oxplemented th canton wk an euensie anal ofthe ‘conic lator determing thes sages At abowt the sume rime Mill was writing, another Englishman, Hebert Spencer, apotied te concepts of eat slcion” ta uma Sits some yar before Darin {pred thee tthe biologi word though his contracts wete quite dierent rom thos ‘ently ang et of earn ooh Speer watch inuenced by Thomas Maths, who in 1798 ba note hat uma sexier ine al lag specs tended t reprsce in numbers fa aster {han they insreased the rll food up For uma gros be postulate this mean aie or strgle in which many mer onthe edge of starvation and more “pemitve’ Societies low oti the srl for survival to the more “advanced cltures. Spencer trseved hat evetally atl seetion would produce apf soit A ispurofmaureall opie wie Colmes of he em oe ning Fier Te tests mind ne nde, an ral wenn, ot isomer” : Spencer's ideas permeate achaclogcl analyses of cai inti bh they are now lng abandoned for various reasons (se chap 7) onside Spence the een acto nalons of proggess ae mia actu of Souk sence, Bat Spencer was rit ana, and he was operating on assumptions ‘hata einen reasonable inthe nnetenth ent tht storys sujet ata Tans tht can know these ls, and thats Spence’ whole lie experence showed implications f sence to human aie co onl lead vo progres. Thomas Huxley ead drt of Bob C86), adhe an er convinced Spencer that ‘pores wa the wrong concept Yo appt algal evolution, so Spence sed peat ews at Mh he singh could not xcae the Notion that what history pncpally showed wa "progres." (CHARLES DARWIN Cn warm Saturday feroon in fn 160, about a thousand people ater in Oxford, England, to witne a debuts of haces Dacre (Fige 8) theory of biological {voltion. Foe years Darwin ad tai the ana and plans of Sowth Ameria, and he ha formatted ess about “desent wih modiienton” But for various reson he was Tauceantto pubs isviws Only when knew that thers wee abt to polish iar ‘Soluionsy anaes dhe advance hs opinion that cents the blogic sekences ad been i eto ell pein thot ll vcs of Drown and contin tnibeeritence oo: inlets caren ares a wel Westen thought trough South & imprest the Gabpagor Archipe feologialy sl nevettels hab ts and oii malar? theianimas in were thereof ofeconomic eon inal spheres of rere ges proeredand un answers eh Biologia wor mf f years varied environ ‘erononment ba fon their penonal (3) el ove Din dha human sat te a ia fos ede cetuyof spectator rence homed homes sey Sapte notion herein Oxford ory of biologial Ameen be is reaans he ah to publ similar Prowsrony, Heroh, am Ancuaroocy | 19 haa bets err concering the origins and nature of cal pei, Here Dar bo hoa tuned that al vases of plants and sia were the diet product of Go's create might and humankind el was ied Special act of creation. In fact 36 noted ech, long belore Darin and conning through is age nl no othe tument rom Desigh the Mes tha he intay, comple ity and interdependency ofthe universe point utmistababy tole existence of Divine reser ba beta one the intllestl currents in Western cation an ie other es ewe ht Darwin's recarch al but lina from educated ‘ester thought the Argunet from Desig. On his travels through South America, Datwin had been particulary mene bythe rest ves of plant and unin if in the Galapagos Archipelago, ner Ecuador. Tere fd lands feologially similar and within sight of one another, bit overthles inate by sigaifcandy different specie onan animals Why shoal he amd aea? AYGURE 1.8 Cinls Darwin (1898-1882) be ach diversity in such talent he cud bret ceed en et toner ore course that fo millenia frmes Bad wed eetve redig to improve theranimals inspec way, rochasinceased mikpredaction cows Bul these anges Werth rl of purposeful intervention in these animal Breeding ates How cold ch slain come about inthe natural wld? Darwin ras iene Matha’ eu of poplstion andl Adar Soit's concep ‘fecononc competition, and he wa nich mrss with the mportanse of competition Ina spheres of Ke: "Beng wll prepared to appreciate the sug or exience which yeryhere goes on for long tod eration ofthe a of ands pt Prose aod sional onto dese. With hese aera nd spe cncstons, Darwin provided th wold wih Ill of yas, wich slowed atarl scton Yo stape loa pepsin othe firnientshad changed and some individuals were better equipped survive and past nthe persona charnterinics, 2 rare is anes f uakes ad rds ad dinosaurs breeding ging rd ding in (anor fsa igh anne oie word to work out His Dive and Unkpovable Plan, Ths he Austin jam aed oc i" Fi nel oe A228) could werenely woe ot the eet a of ea he sae Te iRise cob nats And Drei hug through tres cute sera ir header bn an it the moe ei erases the vo ni abhough he prfeaed ater dled aestism lca mpeb deena pene ere tore an oubls bythe impicon of Seanad Been 5 ee 1 onary blog stow the oly genaly acted thon of for crimpl the eth Seema een dubt scot vai. Bat iat ou at Oxford in 86 Jaro vor He Te ree Shoman ese vere rele ni deed Apu 13) The merck geen ar hostility characterized reaction 10 Borie ute eg oe con ves aa sat _zasy to understand wh Hen ht show be se nae Duh completed ales rvoluton Sedona en Raney rik eho ot ove tong ta tcomle mus cea sSemepeating com valce witout apparent special elim co cently Darwin showed that days human proceses, but consi eilete ah wap seualty a he wer spool Fo Ten oy Gaul points ot weer evolutionary theoty makes no pretense of But sch capsid utlnate naar of pose of aman existences human ratios had serrate ts ane such questions. Evolusonaty theory snl supplies ost ‘A Jltatone of change overtime in umn biology and socit)~keving the problem of farms lions samte easton some fe fort of inguty eh fhe they imped ec eraand the veentence an loathing in the ntl eacton to evoltionary prowess ofthe ul theo it peaont omtoversia sta oe mus recognize that evolution thon tak wits oF 94 se LSi dop ating on queen Se mga a the deg of the ioe ‘sor psa eo ee Papasren, Horan Ano Anenetou a an re ad eer nd es at cannot be into question some ofthe most cherished mines] Sena sa ao tet siden fur htory ofcarth might hee happened oy our wn, hey il poy a iste sce perspectives the evolution of life is s0 i at fay 0 understand why many people through the ges have concluded tha the ath was onc a wih we al cose ae el ‘evolutionists had posed cosmic questions and had provided compelling answers. Theis heed Abas; they iplied that we have no special claim to centrality or exemption from the 2 Its important to regis thet Darwinian theory is more thn ust an absaction out how the bilge universe acquired is present frm Ins aplication to clare sn istry, Darwin thsry is profoenly pli, When iw fit widely accepted in the late nineteenth centery, sme people jusied rampant Western colin and exploitation in terms fhe “survival of he est,” inplring tt ta somehow astral and ight that higher" socal stems contol coerce and veplce pi vin a ome ens ral” wh sw even Operating at constant nly sing through variations, perpetuating some, exrpating ethers, Blogs Nils Edrdge and Seplen uy Gould outed the gradual vison of evoutontry processes ih concep of “penctuated equbriam,” or periods of apd change iter Speed with lng periods of mich slower change lr, too, the pose appliatios of these eae are not so biology Evoltons sucha ie and. Gould for example have argued tht gradual hustbeen wed impli by sone util, grad pace soil form ‘ewe shale, Darwinian principles ae simpy indgpensile to understanding the jet of chapters 3,4, and Sof thin bock. They are the on scent basi we have for trying to understand how we evolved out of ery noshumtan hominins and how we verted pans ad animal into the power s0tces on whit ov cet have been ted Mich es at, however, the extent 10 which Darwin can helps understand the rigs of czations and the baie dynamic of man sry td si HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Schmid observation if trae, peas the most power justification one cold make ofthe contemporary niportancs of achacology and Mistrial anaes Masse and othe ‘dtrinists conclude tat syery, poverty voenc, and eter ko the wor through Mirary have been the eesule of ceonomic determine that have never bee fal st that those detertsnans cab aayaed and applied then hee ‘sw evenly dap Achaclagclanale f the past have shout “determinism Deterinisy a applied 1 facta history amd cular, the impreie alte eam forte estat wht happened in history was (party ot gy or ele theresa of deteatining fats that are outers wlohe infences rn rest influenced by varios nations Altough sates Lenin and Marxave scm ad erly been consigned the sl ptr purportedly that Marxist methods of usin of history” inenich ofthe word long withthe soc Sine on thet pilsophi i does not aces scbnlgy bseaehesagsts spend her ve alt hep ater he, and other ite Acai stale ofthe ps (1818-1881, wb onthebasi on (aSH83) tnd oiher eal Dineteenth-cent when tas cor solipsistio~asse individals woh People ave ble Manan ieslgy tion, The studen German diction Assertion of the tnd "relations of txepesis of then Scholars of eery existential, ba thoy But what as Prey this Som four entry ha (ten these oem hat Kael Mars ism and determin As we wl understand onthe Hearempred to arecould be exp vironmental fa theory andthe relies the poop theblunt forts of Sse fepted in te 298 ations of oe xa Sd ace sang he a how we esa the vecoutt make and oet veri hong rer bee fly ie then ese cular, isthe sty, rage phe ines oosgne tothe papal ms arp it methods of fis elements of © "agra" OF alethebouse Preston, Hsrony, Axo Ancinco.cey | 23 and oer items that sonata he technology of 3 ‘esta arn cone heen proton avd materialist es that had considerable impact on Stdles ofthe past was the work of Lei eazy Aegan tthe nia se re bo arto, ot domesticated animal writing and soon Kal Mary {asts-t983) (ge 110) wat inlenced by Morgan fnd oer eae vlna, bat he ial apc Certainly one of the most diverse—not 10 fay solipsistiaesoiatione ofall tie ls her group of inviduals who have rg to explain what Marx mean, ‘opie hae ld each ctr in dapsts over Marin interpetitons abd neo Marit variants onthe base Manian ideology are 0 diverse a 0 dey surat tion The student with » sense of humor and 3 good {German dictionary ir ited to read Mars orginal portant nodes of production tnd “Tlatons of prodection,” and then to fllw the ‘rege of these terns into the contemporary er. Scholes of every inclination, om Plt dais 0 tritentalio, ave cued ingpstion fom Macks theory But what ha al this ogy? FIGURE 1.10 Kat Mace (1825-188) prk Preset Some ofthe most fue achaclogts _lwaedvorhroplon slog by ee foucentryhave wed Marsan esis iranaipex™ th ih vee he nati a of ‘fen thee fr of Marin are ite cieent rom MO Pll nati nat Kart Mix imo professed, bu they ae derived from nineteenth century tes about tora materi lemand determinism ive wie cope 7, Mar red that mosh of human bisa olde andro onc ui in aap efhow esac) duce dsb swe theory and he nos en acca Aheblunt forces of clr i ressons of these ideas stress the social consing goods, Tete rather than ost nope and ecology ae sees by Marit echacongit a the Akermiaat fcr of history, An important point of apart for some ere ted onal, Marxists ig hat historical snalyes must be comparative. They "contend that Pars Pre -sonrchenive vie fal ance sci, sen in lation to ech tr, wil evel ge ral utie of ely inte Bistorealdeveapnent of humanity” they ste tha tiene haman societies practiced a nia primitive communis, flowed bythe ineslalesppropration of pls in eal acuta communities {Graton of “ls society [by] rctly logis They concde tht analy Scns dat ested "in the staticstion of soit int antauitie ases” provides “the key for our udertaningof th course ofthe sbsequent hisory of ancien sok” and ft al Marat storie adhe to he ome that in he Bal analy he reatios of production ae determined by te level of development ofthe mes prod it Tncontemporary Mars achaclogy mano these asomptons and Meas are batnd. ContePorary Marit achacogists differ great thir perspectives, but many of them comer oa omit a major determinunt of cal change they al aretringocrestes human centered view oth tn which eo eating semens whose actions and bis ae not simple produce keer econoic fd envionment force but instead are temules the ants of sci Gynams and ‘tel cbanges We vill conser contemporary expresions of Marist ideas in archology more sors fund inflence on srchnesogy. Moreover Martin iear retain grestputeny in contemporary archacology, especialy among the om pesca flyin chapter 7. ei sufcint hereto ote iat rater determines and philosophies has had long and EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARCHAEOLOGY From Ye minintenth cntuy to the beginnings ofthe twentieth acchasclgy ented remarkable er of Dicavery so Desighrment™ his was the period in which Egan Jyphsand Mesopotamian cuneiform were ira decphered and malo archaeological sxcinaions were underben everywhue- In 1922 Ld Carnarvon nnd Hoard Cate pened he tomb of Pharaoh Tutanbham in Egypt andthe sme ya i ohn Marsal bein exarating the great Harappan ciation i the Inds Valen 1926S Leopard Wooley covered he Roya Tom of Lin Mespotamis andl one the word a this el donee wer xing made “Arch made ret progress hier, bl tsa atime in which chic was donated by European ant Arescans in an event and imperialist way hat wea tay Bs the dng» neptive agen many parts ofthe Word. The each snd Bro parca, but Never nats to some extent, lot the antiga other lat, expecially Grese, Torley, yp, Ig std ean, European governments borate witharchuclopitsto exact antiques concessions from wesk ovement ‘When the British nd rench cont ed Fay they aays mage one of tei own cuzens the retro the Egy antigua servi. Archedlogit intr sometimes ed os Wor ssl ev sadgode The largely no accumula temple Prehiso fidence byte 1 ite hide datas snd Lae ‘eter ARCS The Nev archuel tno ac that ee logs pips Fie on. and phil rues have into the se ta oven "he rey” 20d reins of pe they als yoamics ad so es choco Howard Caner, eyo aril 2 Si Leonard icharchaclogy Wi. The French Ihe antiquities i gwernments hr own ies World War I with its hore camag, the Dersson ofthe 19305 andthe other dismal events of thier issined any intellectuals ad caused hen to doubt any alevluton-at lent inthe sese of wold growing more rational {nd moral of progres in any sense, Te it halo the twentieth etary aw a8 age of ‘istentlsm and in many senses rection of atonal. Darwinian notions of sage and godess, theirationaliy of word wil thes desroyed for many people the st ‘este ofthe Argument fom Design and ested ina profound sens of cosmieislaton ‘The philosophical curens of the ery twentieth century produced in scacology largely nontheoteicl dsp ia which mow choir contented themes wt pote accumulation of arts and a minimum of isterpettion, This period was the “olden 26" of cultural reconstucton and culture history. Inthe United States the federal soveznment invested considerblc usin archaeological investigations: in pat 2 4 way toemploy people during the Depresion, we widely su tht progres in explaining Prehitorccltrl developments would be made only when mack more aehaesogiel idence had been scumblatel andthe “facts bellowed to speak for themselves” Even by the 1930s, however, there ata growingfastation wit the ide of a achecolo Tinted jst to an endless series of inference about how at people ved and how hey sere rested ctrl: And many scholars, sucha he Marat echaclolt Vor Chi, conned to work oa x seeneof history ‘One ofthe estes and mo inflata temps to move rchaology beyond simple

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