tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603328984693714343.post1676586516108982792..comments2023-07-28T05:29:31.923-04:00Comments on The Blogaeological Record: Archaeodigms Part 2: Culture HistoryLars Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01807772117373708566noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603328984693714343.post-55584185617795523992009-03-25T12:13:00.000-04:002009-03-25T12:13:00.000-04:00Uhle's work at Pachacamac seems pretty cool, and c...Uhle's work at Pachacamac seems pretty cool, and clearly you can see the influences of an Andean Archaeologist professor (for History of Arch Theory) shining through in some of my example choices...well mainly Uhle. You know what's interesting though, I haven't read any William McKern or anything about the Midwestern Taxonomic method, so damn, I need to get on that! Not that it will significantly alter my review of culture history but more knowledge is always good. Anyway I've got an interesting Max Uhle story that was told in my History of Arch Theory class. Apparently Uhle originally wanted to excavate Tiwanaku, but when he got there the Bolivian army was using statues and other archaeological remains and architecture at the site for target practice! This made Uhle a little angry, so he went to the Bolivian government and asked them to stop and pass laws to make Tiwanaku something like a national heritage site. It worked, the army was moved out, but the new law didn't allow anyone to work there, thus Uhle couldn't excavate even after all the work he did to keep the site from being shot to pieces and preserving the site! Thus Uhle went and excavated at Pachacamac, which still seems to have worked out for him.Lars Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807772117373708566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603328984693714343.post-48988221690795010392009-03-24T21:07:00.000-04:002009-03-24T21:07:00.000-04:00Oh, man, Max Uhle, that's fantastic! I really onl...Oh, man, Max Uhle, that's fantastic! I really only ever knew him as a name, and Trigger always admitted that he was weaker on the German archaeologists than the Scandinavians. Someday (soon) when they let me offer the department's History of Anthropology course, I'm going to set a coursepack entirely made up of articles by these now-virtually-unknown anthropologists to complement a more 'mainstream' text. Ironically, Uhle's biographer, John Rowe, is also on my list of now-forgotten scholars to be included in this course.<BR/><BR/>The one I always like to pick on, in terms of highlighting the faults of cultural history, is William McKern, because his methodology (the Midwestern Taxonomic Method) was so pervasive in American archaeology in the 1930s and 1940s, and yet so sterile, in exactly the ways you point out. Kidder, in comparison, is much closer to Taylor.<BR/><BR/>- Steve<BR/><BR/>P.S.: Whatever could have been making you busy over the past week?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com