Michel Foucault ’s Archaeology of Knowledge While Michel Foucault ’s work has always been about the nature of power in society‚ his more particular concern has been with power ’s relationship to the discursive formations in society that make knowledge possible. Power here is not the conventional power of institutions and leaders‚ but the "capillary" modes of power that controls individuals and their knowledge‚ the mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals‚ touches
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ARKY 303: ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA Winter Semester 2014 Instructor: Mr. Don H. Butler Office: ES750 Email: dhbutler@ucalgary.ca Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5 pm or by appointment Class: SS109 Times: Mon‚ Wed‚ Fri 11:00-11:50 am Course Description: This course provides a general survey of the archaeology of North America‚ north of Mexico. Temporal coverage extends from the earliest known evidence for human settlement in North America up to the period of European contact. Geographical
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Jamaine Thomas Professor Macrae ANT 2140 Archaeology Blog #1 July 16‚ 2015 My writer that I decided to do a blog report on is Heather Pringle. She is a well rounded science author who loves to study archaeology. She’s categorize as an archaeology specialist she grew up in Edmonton Alberta and she was raised into playing hockey her father was a professional hockey player but unfortunately she didn’t like the game of hockey she might be the only person in Canada that doesn’t worship the game of
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RUBBISH! The Archaeology of GarbageBook Review The book titled Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by WilliamRathje and Cullen Murphy was a very interesting read. Created in1973‚ the archeology of garbage was a program primarily created as an exercise in archeology for students at the University of Arizona-Tucson. The most fascinating aspect of the book is the discoveries of what our garbage tells about us as a society. It was interesting the amount of detailed behavior that can be discovered by
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DATING METHODS | MATERIALS | AGE LIMIT | NOTES | RADIOCARBON DATING (Is also known as C-14 Dating) | Radiocarbon dating can date organic materials.For example‚ pollen‚ bone‚ hair‚ parchment‚ wood‚ charcoal etc. | 400-50000 years old. | Principal that all living things interact constantly with the atmosphere and we absorb Carbon 14‚ however at the point of death‚ living creatures stop absorbing carbon 14‚ and the carbon 14 is frozen. This carbon decays at a known‚ constant rate. | AMS DATING
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Biblical archaeology From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the movement associated with William F. Albright and also known as biblical archaeology‚ see Biblical archaeology school. For the interpretation of biblical archaeology in relation to biblical historicity‚ see Historicity of the Bible and List of artifacts significant to the Bible. Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions
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“Which Came First?”: The Importance of the Pre-Clovis vs. Clovis Culture Debate The main questions I hope to answer in this paper are why the Pre-Clovis and Clovis cultures matter‚ and how does one existing before the other affect today’s indigenous population‚ as well as the environment? By looking at the debate that was unearthed when pre-Clovis artifacts were first found‚ and by researching the reasons scientists have for believing either of the two theories‚ I am going to resolve the issue
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your career should include courses in the three main subfields of anthropology‚ according to a forensic anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. These three subfields are physical anthropology‚ cultural anthropology and archaeology. Some universities’ anthropology programs might include courses in linguistics‚ a fourth specialty. Dr. Albert‚ the forensic anthropologist from the University of North Carolina‚ cautions that a forensic anthropologist is an anthropologist first
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Excavation Report – Pool of Siloam (Jerusalem) Sharon Brown BIBL 471 Liberty University Pool of Siloam (Jerusalem) Thesis Statement This report is to give information on the excavations of the Pool of Siloam and how it relates to the Bible. The Pool of Siloam is an important site as it helps to prove the New Testament story of the healing of the blind man in Jesus’ time at this pool. It is a historical site as it is specifically mentioned by name in the Bible‚ not some random
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Bibliography: Allen M. 2012. More about Landsnail Analysis: Mollusc Analysis. Allen Environmental Archaeology. http://www.themolluscs.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35 (29/04/2012) Carter S.P Davies P. 2008. Land and Freshwater Molluscs. Oxbow Books Evans J Kerney M.P. 1999. Atlas of the land and freshwater Molluscs of Britain and
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