ANTHRO 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Carl Linnaeus
30 Oct 2017
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Middle age (5 - 15th century) fascination with greece, John aubrey excavated stonehenge in the 1600s and several other large sites. Augustus pitt rivers in late 1800s argued that artifacts should be studied and preserved. Were arguing that large earth mounds found all over the u. s. were either created by. The study of human variation across all time and space. Includes study of primates as they relate to the development of various homo species. Late 1700-1800s idea of separate human races began to form in scientific community. Linnaeus, blumenbach framed idea of races from previous notions of humors. System was updated periodically because some cultures threw off expectations. Anthropologists studied skulls of different classes and ethnic groups to prove that europeans were the most intelligent. Variations within racial groups is higher than between. Walking over landscape, scanning the ground for artifacts, documenting may use gps (ground penetrating radar)
