ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Interdisciplinarity, Taphonomy, Dendrochronology
28 Nov 2013
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Paleoanthropology the study of ancient human ancestors specifically hominins: a multi disciplinary approach there are physical biological anthropologists, there are several different disciplines. Dating is important to paleoanthropology because everything is date specific, this uses a range of methods from relative to chronometric dating. Environment studying the hominins that belonged to this environment is important to paleoanthropology. Taphonomy refers to how materials came to be varied and were. Studying the artifact but the context they are in and how they came to be based on the place that they are in now. Anatomy and the biology of hominis - bones of other animals or hominins are able to tell us if these were hurt or injured etc. Archaeology - archaeology = the study of the human past through material remains. **focus on the stuff that"s left the garbage! To analyze and reconstruct past lifeways what (behaviour)
