ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jane Goodall, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Anthropology
2 Apr 2016
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First contact: initial encounters between people of different societies. Two major goals of anthropologists: understand uniqueness of human behaviours and societies, discover similarities between past and present humans. 4 subfields: 1) physical 2) archaeology 3) linguistic 4) cultural (ethnology) Physical: humans as a biological species (human evolution & modern human variation) Paleoanthropology: study of human evolution through analysis of fossils. Primatology: study of primates (non human: social behavior, communication, infant care, reproduction, natural forces that have shaped human evolution and human behaviour, primates: mammals that belong to the same biological classification as humans, ex. Forensic anthropology: anthro and the law; investigations, deaths. Osteology: structure and function of human skeleton: changes in fossils, ancient living. Archaeology: material traces of past societies and culture of society (pg 4) Explain life ways in the past from material evidence. Settlement site, cave site, and midden site (garbage) Ethnoarchaeology: study of material artifacts along with current knowledge of use (written documents)
