ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek Philosophy, Human Evolution, Forensic Anthropology
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Cultural anthropology study of living cultures. Archaeology study of past cultures, mainly through their material culture remains. More contracted area of study b/c not everything is buried into the ground. Physical (biological) anthropology study of human biological evolution and human remains. Biological anthropology sociological behavior and material/technology development. Bio-cultural evolution/adaptation as we evolve biologically, we start to improve material development such as the technology (tied very closely with each other) Forensic anthropology who they were, how they died, etc. Linguistics study of languages in the point of view of anthropologists. All asking different types of questions the goal is to understand human behavior/the existence of human. The development of knowledge nowadays is due by the historical circumstances that have occurred in europe. Arab world institutions of higher learning: ~700-1200, reading and reproducing a lot of greek philosophies, al-azhar university, cairo, est. 975 ad: university of al-karaouine, morocco, est.
