ISS Politics of the Past
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- How would you describe the use of inferences in archaeology?
- Archeologist see chunks of data and try to find patterns to make inferences (logic chains)
- Archaeologist see what kind of data and never have how much of it?
- missing or incomplete, 100%
- What are the 3 areas of focus for archaeologist?
- Technology and substance, social and political organization, ideology/religion/worldview
- How would you understand the past thoughts and beliefs?
- You would need to talk to the people of that time which is impossible
- Will inferences ever be labeled as facts?
- No never
- Archaeologist do what to other people\'s histories?
- They write their histories and 99% they are the key factors in describing someone\'s past
- Archaeologist tend to make things very?
- political
- What group of people are being DNA sampled and why?
- Children for a layer of protection like finding kidnapped victims