ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anatomically Modern Human, Moe Williams, Biological Anthropology
15 Jul 2020
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Complex societies (diff groups of people doing diff things)- 6,000 years. 7 billion people all over the planet. Carried over form the early years of the discipline. Helps us make sound conclusions about human nature . Human biological diversity: evolution of bodies, genetics, plasticity (bodies can change in course of a single lifetime, primatology. Cultural/ social aspects of human evolution: also strives to find this out. Stratigraphy- things are deposited on top of each other, deeper things are older than shallower (control for change over time) Descriptive linguistics: describing and writing spoken languages. Historical linguistics: ancient languages, variation through time. Sociolinguistics: relationships between social and linguistic variation. Ethnography: fieldwork in a particular culture, descriptive, specific, specific group and specific place. Ethnology: cross cultural comparison, synthetic, based on already collected data, comparison of diff groups/ lots of examples to come to conclusion. Physical (long term): more efficient respiratory system.
