ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medical Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Egyptology
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Archaeology: study of ancient and recent human past through material remains left by earlier societies. Provide tremendous time depth unavailable to ethnographers. Material remains allow past cultural activities to be described reconstructed and interpreted. Artifacts- portable objects modified by human beings; can create distribution maps of cultural artifacts. Allows anthropologists to make hypotheses about : Ages, territorial ranges, and patterns of sociocultural change in ancient societies. Nature and degree of social contact b/w diff people in past. Goes back as long as humans do as long as humans were present then archaeology present (dinosaurs are not archaeology bc no humans) doesn"t tell u how humans lived in the past. Classical: generally focuses on ancient greece and rome and is often more closely related to the field of art history than to anthropology. Biblical: seeks evidence and explanation for events described in the bible and therefore is focused primarily on the middle east.
