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Cards in this set: Term Speculative Period Definition 1400s to mid 1800s opened by discovery of new world cabinets of curiosities- basis for museums myth of the moundbuilders "arm-chair archaeology" Term Thomas Jefferson Definition first SCIENTIFIC archaeological excavation debunked Moundbuilder Myth Term Descriptive Period Definition less speculation, more description and classification Conceptual advances: deep time, stratigraphy, three age system, concept of evolution Mid 1800s to early 1900s Term Charles LYELL Definition 1840- descriptive UNIFORMIARIANISM suggested earth other than people thought Term Jacque Boucher de PERTHES Definition found stone tools with animals suggested earth even older Term stratigraphy Definition using layering of object to determine relative age the deeper the layer, the older it is Term Three age system Definition C.J. Thomsen Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age Worsaae- first trained archaeologist Term General Augusted Lane-Fox PITT-RIVERS Definition precedent for mapping, military precision barrows on estate Term Sir William Flanders PETRIE Definition seriation Egypt Term Sir Mortimer WHEELER Definition grid square method enlgand, india Term Cyrus THOMAS Definition investigate Moundbuilder Myth entomology and ichthyologist hired by precursor to Smithsonian Hodgin doing archaeology Term Gertrude Canton THOMPSON Definition Hired to investigate Great Zimbabe same thing as Moundbuilders, but with Africans Term Culture History Period Definition early 1900s to 1960s more professionalism improved methods concern with chronology emphasis on immigration, diffusion not much interest in how or why Term Alfred KIDDER Definition culture history of Southwest employed seriation and stratigraphy Term V. Gordon CHILDE Definition Europe culture histories for Europe and Middle East Term Gordon WILLEY Definition culture history for Florida Gulf Coast great reference book for pottery in this area greater fame for maya stuff in peru Term Walter W. TAYLOR Definition didn't like culture history shit criticized them in A Study of Archaeology wanted "conjunctive approach" (more interpretation) Term Processual Archaeology Definition 1960s to present more scientific culture as evolutionary process/adaptive system patterns: stats, sampling, comps hypothesis testing, laws (stupid ones) Term Lewis R. BINFORD Definition Leading proponent of "new archaeology" (processual) emphasis on scientific approach Term Downfall of processual archaeology Definition stupid laws trying to hard to make it science-y too much emphasis on environment (more to a culture than what they ate) influence of postmodern philosophy Term Post-Processual Archaeology Definition 1980s to present no universal laws emphases: gender, class, symbols, power, individuals Marxist, feminist, interpretive more involvement from descendant communities Term Ian HODDER Definition leading critic of processualist Term Kathleen DEAGAN Definition focus on identity, class in colonial settlements work in Haiti, St. Augustine