ANTHRO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wet Season, Rift Valley Lakes, Behavioral Ecology
19 Oct 2016
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Anthropology 100 section 2 with professor bunn. Case study: hadza foragers at lake eyasi, tanzania: terminology: ethnoarchaeology, foragers = hunters-gathers, savannah-bush- woodland, base camp, division of labor, cooperation, main foods, baobab fruit, tubers, berries, meat, honey. Course logistics: talk to professor or ta about archaeology, office hours: monday 1:00-3:00 pm. What is archaeology: the reconstruction of past human behavior from the scientific study of its materials remains. Sources of information: bones and teeth of hominins. Can learn what hominins were physically capable of doing: archaeology. Helps us learn specific and general patterns: geology. Can tell us the type of environment. Fossils can tell us who else were living there: modern analogues. Understanding by way of modern examples can help us link past evidence with the behavior that produced it. Looking for evidence throughout a piece of land: excavation (digging holes) Destroys an archaeological site from trying to find evidence to reconstruct past human behavior.
