ANTH 145 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 145
• Professor: Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Refers speci cally to the study of material remains created by past human beings. Integrate isolated facts (snapshots) into a broad picture of the past. A framework for understanding how that world developed and changed into ours. The study of humans culturally and biologically. Breaks down into three categories: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology. The set of language, beliefs, customs, art, and religion. History of humankind in the period before recorded history. Human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc,; history of prehistoric humans. Tracing the origin and development of the world"s great civilizations. Discovery, description and classi cation of physical evidence. Reconstructions of dynamic past human activities with the static archaeological record. Build a time and space framework for the past. Understand how humans lived in the past. Answer the why questions of human prehistory. Understand the nature of the archaeological record.