Important Dates

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• Important Dates
• Essay due Thursday June 4 in class.
• Hard copy, please.
• No late papers, no incompletes.
• Final Exam Thursday June 11th
• 1000 AM section at 800 AM
• 1200 AM section at 1000 AM

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• Please edit out these common errors
• its / its
• site / sight / cite
• theyre / their / there
• were / where
• weather / whether
• and indicate in text
• Title of a Book or Title of a Book
• Title of an Article
• but do neither in References Cited!

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Introduction

• Make sure you
• Frame topic in time, place, culture
• Mention sources you draw on
• Cite source at first mention, e.g.
• I support my argument with examples drawn from
  James Deetzs research on the Amish of western
  Pennsylvania (1997).
• Make thesis OBVIOUS!

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FOSSIL
THOUGHTS
ANTH 215D Week 10
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MODEL OF CULTURE ?
Ideotechnic Sociotechnic Technomic Material
Correlates of Cultural Subsystems
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Catedral Metropolitana, Mexico City
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Teotihuacan, NE of Mexico City
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tahuantinsuyo
land of the four quarters Incan
cosmology water blood of agricultural
life controlled by the stars mountains
inhabited by gods Cuzco navel of the world
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Chavin de Huantar
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Cognitive Archaeology

• ASKS FOUR GENERAL QUESTIONS
• COSMOLOGY - How did people imagine their world?
• RELIGION AND RITUAL - How did people enact their
  beliefs?
• IDEOLOGY - How did people rationalize their
  existence?
• ICONOGRAPHY - How were ideas encoded in physical
  objects?

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• Thomas Chapter 11 The Archaeology of the Mind
   
• Kent Flannery "Humanists must cease thinking
  that ecology dehumanizes history, and ecologists
  must cease to regard art, religion and ideology
  as mere "epiphenomena" without causal
  significance. In an ecosystem approach to the
  analysis of human societies, everything which
  transmits information is within the province of
  ecology."
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• 1. What are the goals of cognitive archaeology?

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• 2. How many different cosmologies have
  anthropologists discovered?

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• 3. Why do archaeologists find it easier to
  identify the rituals of past cultures than to
  define their (the cultures') religions and
  cosmologies?  

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• 4. What are some of the interpretations that have
  been offered for the art found in the caves of
  the Upper Paleolithic period? Can any of these
  be tested against the archaeological record? Is
  there any other way to evaluate their accuracy?
   

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• 5. What is the apparent paradox of religious
  iconography in the Chavin culture?  

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• 6. What, according to Burger, is the role of
  Chavin cosmology in the social structure of this
  early civilization?