ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Rescue Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology
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Talks about diff cultures from diff parts of the world. Culture: all the things that are non-genetic are aspects of human generation. Linguistic anthropology: language variations around the world, diff cultures use diff words. Archaeology: study of material culture stuff people make . Material culture: physical manifestation of human activities, such as tools, art & structures. lewis et al. , p. 10. Prehistoric archaeology study of non-literate cultures (beginning of history, beginning of writing) Bioarchaeology study of biological material in context of archaeology. Cultural resource management: (rescuing things from destruction) the safeguarding of archaeological heritage through protection of sites and through salvage archaeology. Evolutionary anthropology (physical or biological anthro: study of modern human variability (osteology, forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, molecular anthropology, human evolution (paleoanthropology - fossil of human evolution, paleoprimatology non human fossils, primatology nonliving) Descent with modification darwin, 1859 (change between generations) A change in genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next .
