ANTHROP 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tomb Raider Ii, Biological Anthropology, Bipedalism

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2200
• Professor: Timothy Sefczeck

Document Summary

Canines are not enlarged and teeth are small. The four fields are used to get a complete understanding of what it means to be human. Study of patterns of behavior through material records a. b. Can tell what is valued and what is not, what is common and what is rare, and how these ideas change ii. Contextual analysis is important, knowing where something occurred and in what/who it is in relation to. Without context, an artifact loses all significance a. This means when indiana jones removes the idol without studying it, he is a tomb raider. Understanding how people use words and how those words change in different situations. Understand how languages change through time & with human contact. Ethnology: comparative study of cultures around the world. Understand the biological and biocultural aspects of being human. Started as physical measurements of people to categorize populations; we now know people are ll the same species.