Why Do Anthropologists Keep Digging Up The Past?

Question

well ?

Answer 1

Because it's fun! If you haven't tried it, it's hard, dirty work, but it's rather enjoyable seeing something that no one else has seen for centuries, millenia, or even millions of years. It's amazing when you find something that's really impressive and you know will someday make its way into a museum display.
Seriously, we want to know about humanity's past and to reconstruct different lifeways. We want to use this knowledge to further the understanding of where society might be going and how we are impacting our environment. [Evidence of agriculture practiced thousands of years ago still exists because it altered the soil!] We want to know where people came from and how their unique cultures have survived [at least in part] in spite of warfare, colonization, migration, genocide, and inquisitions. It is amazing what you can learn about society, agriculture, religion, and trade from a few artifacts and some soil.

Answer 2

Because knowing the past helps to ;
1- try not to repeat mistake smade in the past.
2- prepair for the future.(example; we now know the earth has been though many ice ages and will again. knowing in advance we would have a better chance of survival)
3-we can under stand how peoples health were effected by disease, accidents, nation diasters such as floods, earthquakes, valcanos, hurricanes. (example ; we now know that natural earth diasters can and have killed entire civilizations. we know that an astroid or big rock cam eout of the sky and killed 90% of the earths life more than once.)
4- Humans are naturally interested in their roots, their history, past accomplishedments and how we began as a species and anthropologists answer these questions.

Answer 3

Well, a variety of lacking hyperlinks were observed. But in among each 2 hyperlinks which were observed there may be without doubt one other lacking hyperlink. So lacking hyperlinks will constantly be with us. But the beyond one hundred fifty years of fossil study were incredibly positive. When Darwin wrote there have been no different participants of the genus Homo to be further but, now there may be approximately a dozen different participants, each ancestors and extinct sidebranches, which have been learned. And sure, Darwin was once a christian, however so what? Galilei was once a christian as good, and it took the catholic church over three hundred years to confess that certainly he have been correct. With Darwin it is the protestant church buildings specifically which might be suffering, however eventually all religions will must adapt or face ridicule or certainly even extinction (it is like ordinary decision!), on account that biology isn't theology: you are not able to simply consider some thing you desire, forget about advances in potential round you, and nonetheless anticipate to be taken significantly. The grace interval is over. If you continue to believe that your faith are not able to be reconciled with evolution then it is your faith as a way to cross, no longer evolution.

Answer 4

HA! perhaps it's a facisnation with the world and the people in it. the feeling of walking around a site and finding even the smallest sherd can bring a flood of feelings. even standing in a place rich in history can be wonderful. you start imagining why were these people, why did they do this, what was the reason for making that, etc. Perhaps it's the need to ask and answer questions about the past that makes us curious and want to "dig up the past."

Answer 5

Because neither the present nor the future can be dug up just yet. So they have to settle for digging up the PAST!

Answer 6

The best way to understand the present and predict the future is knowing the past.

Answer 7

because they seek knowledge about the past and the changes that brought us to the present.

Answer 8

Humans want to know things. We are insatiably curious, especially about were we come from, and what things were like before us.

Answer 9

cause they are nosy and need to have their relatives dug up and examined see how they like it. they don't want real jobs and want to live on the societies tab and pretend like they are better than the rest of us