ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Dendrochronology, Natural Selection

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Anth 1120 lecture 1: intro to bio/phys anthropology. Sex is driven by instinct, however it is surrounded by social constructs (marriage, etc. ) Genetics cannot explain why someone is a criminal. It was thought that men were full of hormones that drove them to be violent not true. Culture regulates and modi es our environment: primatology understanding the evolution of primates. Primate families: paleoanthropologists digging up skeletal remains ( type of bio anthro, medical anthropology how humans cope with disease, ideas around health. Past and modern populations: want empirical data, observation, understanding, hypothesize, natural selection we are selected for and against by our environment, qualitative vs. quantitative data. Seriation: involves putting particular artifacts from a number of sites within a given cultural area into chronological order, usually in a series of older-to-younger patterns. Absolute dating: the earliest method used to determine absolute dates is the written record, (clay tablets, stone inscriptions, starting in mesopotamia, 5500 bp. later in.