ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Ardipithecus, Bioarchaeology, Australopithecine
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Anta01 week 1 september 13, 2012. The study of human kind, in particular: four fields - + numerous sub fields. History when we have records from that period. Prehistory a lack of writing, no physical record. The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of site and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. : maritime archaeology (shipwrecks), historical archaeology (old boats, old buildings), monumental archaeology (tombs, temples), paleolithic/cave. Biological anthropology [the sciences of human zoology, evolution and ecology (forensics, Primatology, palaeoanthropology): bioarchaeology (rituals, burials, bog bodies (preservation of bodies, paleoanthropology, primatology. Social/ cultural anthropology: the comparative study of human society and cultures and their development. Linguistic anthropology: the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. Archaeological methods chronological methods to figure out how old things are. First bipeds- fossils (ardipithecus and the australopithecines: we did not evolve from apes/monkeys.
