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how archaeology came to be
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Archaeology
Undergraduate 1
10/13/2009

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Christian Thomsen
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from denmark, worked in museum, sorted artifacts into three groups; stone, bronze, iron
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Heinrich Schliemann
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german. discovered troy using historical documents, no excavation work
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Champollion
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French, but a greek scholar. Decrypted the Rosetta Stone.
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Thomas Jefferson
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first individual in america to record and document an archaeological site
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Davis & Squier
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american, discovered and mapped native american mounds in Mississippi
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Alfred Kidder
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American. First one to use the direct historical approach (talk to direct relatives of archaeology sites) statigraphy
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Tatiana Proskouriakof
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Russian. Tried to translate Mayan. 800 Characters +
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Marvin Harris
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American. Cultural Materialism
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