People In Archaeology

Nabonidus

Earliest known archaeologist

Nabonidus excavated old temples

Purpose was to legitimize his position as king

(Nationalist Nabonidus)

Thomas Jefferson

Mound Excavation

Thought that Native Americans Had Been In North America Longer

Thought that Natives were building the Mounds

(TJ Mound)

Christian Thomsen

Created the three age system

(Three= Thomsen)

Jen J A Worsaae

Confirmed the Three Age system

(AA= Association)

Nicholaus Steno

Principle of Superposition

(Super Steno)

George Cuvier

Principle of stratigraphy

Walter Taylor

Scolded archaeologists to be more like cultural anthropologists

Ethnography

(Ethnography)

Julian Stward

Culture Historians generally avoided talking about human behavior

potential to do anthropology, but in the past

(CJS= Cultural Julian Steward)

Charles Lyell

Father of Geology

(Presented Extinct Fauna = P instead of C)

Perthes

Extinct Fauna w/ human stone tools

Believed that humans arte much older than previously belived coesxiting with extinct animals during the Ice Age

(FEP) (Came up with P = C instead of P)

Bishop J Ussher

Earliest Dating of The World

(Biblical= Bishop)

The Binfords (Lewis and Sally)

-Processual "New Archaeology"

-Test the hypothesis of the cultural process to derive laws about culturalevo;lutioon and human behavior

-(Lewis= Law Sally Binford = Behavior)