ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Neanderthal 1, Thomas Robert Malthus, Medical Anthropology
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Cultural anthropology also known as social anthropology. Study of particular culture at a particular time ethnography. * archaeology- study of material culture (physical manifestation of human activities, such as tools, art, and structures) Prehistoric archaeology before people started writing accounts of things. Historic archaeology started around 3000 bc when people started the writings. Cultural resource management rescuing sites of archaeology. Evolution a change in genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next. Science is about imperical testing of ideas using data. Ussher in 1650 took the bible and applied a generation time to when everything happened and determined that the earth was made 4004 bc. Living things do not change through time (fixity of species) Uniformitarianism theory that the earth"s features are the result of long-term processes that continues to operate today as they did in the past. Modeled the earth as a self regulating system. Adaptation a fit of an organism to its environment.
