Week 2 : History of archaeology
From culture history to the New Archaeology
Post-processualist approaches. New techniques: aerial photography and Geographic Information Systems
- Greene and Moore 256-272
- see the portraits of Friedrich Ratzel, Edward B. Tylor, Gustaf Kossinna, and Lewis Binford
- read the biographies of Walter Taylor and Julian Steward
- Greene and Moore 51-88 and 273-285; Carver and Klapste 25-34
- see the portraits of Ian Hodder, Helge Ingstad and Mortimer Wheeler
- visit the Viking-age site in L'Anse aux Meadows
- see examples of a systematic survey with transects for each person to walk and scan and of resistivity surveying
- see an example of crop marks in Zaasch (Saxony, Germany) and a few applications of aerial archaeology
- see also a GIS application to an archaeological project in Burgundy (France)
