ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Language Change, Historical Archaeology, Underwater Archaeology
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Study of human biological variation (diversity) in time and space; includes. Primatology: study of fossil & living apes, monkeys and prosimians, including their behaviors and social lives. Paleoanthropology: study of hominid & human life through the fossil record. Hominid: taxonomic family that includes humans and african apes and their immediate ancestors. Archaeology: study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes through the culture"s material remains. Studies material remains in order to describe, reconstruct, and explain human behavior over time and space. Historical archaeology: study of material remains from past societies that also left behind some form of written documentation.
