ANTH 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Catarrhini, Oligocene, Thermoluminescence
10 Mar 2016
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Labs: leacock 270 (5 total; replace friday lectures; 14th week: lab quiz) ta: jiuru du. Four main areas of anthropology (lecture 1: cultural: medical/development/applied, linguistic: language as a cultural phenomenon, not linguistics, archaeology: study of material past, physical/biological: (most scientific) Marks: bio hist, evo relationships, adaptive diversity that characterizes human species . Human osteology bones anthropometry dimensions of humans forensic legal/humanitarian; determine ancestry/age/sex/stature paleopathology disease in ancient man ethology animal behaviour/adaptation primatology primate behaviour in the wild. Paleoanthropology study of fossil record to shed light on the development of human evo. Sociocultural evolution (lecture 2) is not the same as social darwinism! The march of progress: popular image of monkey human evolution. Sociocultural progress : similar to above but pyramid of cultures w/white at the pinnacle. Progressivism: forward movement/betterment of society via growth of knowledge/industrial. Implies prehistoric and historical social development is linear and progressive. Influenced by the enlightenment (movement to science), made in 18/19th centuries.
