ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kinship Terminology, Devo, Great Lakes Region
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Study skeletal remains up to millions of years ago. Archaeology-piece together how a society lived with remains that are found from a society that doesn t exist anymore. Linguistics- study of origins and devo of lang. Cultural anthro--live among a different culture to learn how they live. Culture- the way of life of a particular people. Everything a people thinks, does, and has: language**, belief systems, marriage rituals, kinship terminology and systems. These are a sort of culture because they have a lang specific to those groups. From asia, when the ocean was low enough and frozen over, following herds of animals. Perhaps 35,000 ya; at least 12,000 ya http://westerndigs. org/nearly-20- Can only tell how long ago by the tools found in areas. Vegetation attracts animals--animals attract people to north america stone-tool-sites-up-to-12000-years-old-discovered-in-nevada/ St. lawrence river and great lakes region (urie, heron, ontario) Boreal forest (forest and tundra of northeast canada)
