ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Anatomically Modern Human, Homo Erectus, Epidemiological Transition

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Study of contemporary cultures/societies throughout the world. Through participant observation: learn language and culture by participating in their daily activities. Provide an ethnography: description of an aspect of culture within a society, archaeology. Study of past societies/cultures using material remains (tools, ceramics, sites) Prehistoric: no written documents/oral traditions to help, archaeological record is primary source of info. Historical: work with historians to investigate artifacts of more recent societies. Classical: research ancient citizens (egypt, greece, rome, linguistic. Studies construction, use of, and relationship between language and culture. Structural: how language works, grammar, language and thought patterns. Socio-: relationship between language and behaviour, regional dialects, cree dialects. Historical: how languages are related & how they have changed over time, trace migrational routes, confirm data from archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, physical. Studies all aspects of biology and behaviour in both past and present. Biological anthro, osteology, paleoanthropology, primatology: applied.