ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
5 May 2020
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Paleoanthropology the scientific study of humans from a biological perspective. Asking questions about the emergence of of humans and how humans evolved up to the present time. Study of the evolutionary fossil record of our nearest living relatives (ie apes, monkeys, and prosimians) and the behavior of living populations in their natural habitats. Deals with how and why the physical traits of contemporary human populations vary throughout the world. Defined as a group of people who share a greater statistical frequency of genes and physical traits with one another than they do with people outside the group. Study the lifeways of people from the past by excavating and analyzing the material culture they left behind. Objects that have been made or modified by humans and that can be removed from the site and taken to the laboratory for further analysis. Made or modified by people, but cannot be readily carried away from the dig site.
