ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adaptive Radiation, Research Question, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Holistic approach to the study of humans (cultural, biological, environmental) Stretches to all kinds of societies globally. Includes forms of communication other than written language or formalized records. Sociocultural anthropology: the study of all aspects of human behaviour. Culture: set of learned behaviours; it is passed from one generation to the next through learning and not biological or genetic means. Linguistic anthropology: study of how language influences social life and the unwritten languages. Study of humans through time that mainly examines material remains. Relies on various forms of evidence such as. Archaeological record: the material remains of the human past and the physical contexts of these remains. Prehistoric archaeology: study of material culture that predates the written record. Historic archaeology: study of material culture of people who have left written evidence. Cultural resource management/ public archaeology: community based archaeology. Bioarchaeology: study of human and animal remains in an archaeological context. Osteology: study of human skeletal material of past groups.
