ANTHROP 2FF3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organic Compounds (Minerals), Ileret, Paleolithic
25 Mar 2016
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The study of humanity viewed from the perspecive of all people at all imes. Anthropologists are interested in all aspects of humanity and human nature. Biological approach we need to look at humans through the perspecives of both biology and culture. Characterisics that sets humans apart from animals: bipedalism, resulted in several important skeletal changes: Hominid spine has two disincive curves (thoracic and lumbar. Spine keeps the trunk centered above the pelvis) Jf blumenbach came up with 5 racial categories: caucasian (white), mongolian (yellow), malayan (brown), ethiopian (black), american (red) Ales hrdlicka hypothesized that aboriginal people colonized the americas by migraing across the. Earnest hooton large scale study on naive american skeletal collecion; came to the conclusion that races can be ideniied by a number of disinct characterisics. Franz boas relied on the scieniic method; focused on collecing evidence for tesing hypotheses and answering quesions about past and living people.
