ANTHRO 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology, Jane Goodall, Hominidae
15 Sep 2016
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Archaeology: material culture by looking at artifacts from ancestors to help describe their lives. Human biological variation: how are we and primates diff/same and how this has changed. Not only human also study other primates: primates can tell us about our history. Paleoanthropology = study of fossils (human and primates: look at the anatomy and the morphology (relationship between diff bones tells you about the behavior of those species) We can make inferences about their behavior and ecology from these: some fossils have dna evidence, which tells you about human origins and our evolutionary history. They also study living humans from different cultures and locations: you study their behavior, ecology (how they interact with environment), some culture, physiology, and genetics. Nhps = living non-human primates: jane goodall one of the first people who realized the importance of studying non-human primates in their natural environments.
