[ARCH 100] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 110 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: David Maxwell

Document Summary

This includes the study of human biology, behaviour, interaction with the environment, and culture. Typically, these groups are people of a different cultural background than the anthropologist studying them (studying your own culture is called sociology). Cultural anthropologists frequently study social behaviours, such as belief systems, kinship systems, and ways of obtaining or producing food. Typically, these are languages that are strictly verbal, and have no written form. However, linguists do work in archaeology when ancient scripts are present. The biological and physiological study of humans, their ancestors, and their relatives. Frequently involves the study of human skeletons, assessing diet, disease, population genetics, etc. The study of human behaviour as reflected in material culture, specifically artifacts. Although it usually is, archaeology need not be a study of the past exclusively. Archaeology is the study of past human behaviour from material items left behind. These can be ancient items, such as stone tools that are millions of years old.