ANTH 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 59 pages long!)
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Geolog(cid:455) pro(cid:448)ided ti(cid:373)e fra(cid:373)e for dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theor(cid:455) of (cid:374)atural sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Linguistics: study of language i. e forming of sounds and art of communication. Archaeology: examination of the past through physical remains of ancient culture. Cultural/social anthropology: study of ongoing and changing ways of life (culture) Although the disciplines are separated all of them are concerned with human origin and human presence on the planet. Mary leakey discovered fragments of a skull with large teeth turned out to ne oldest known hominid; australopithecus 1. 75-2 (cid:373)illio(cid:374) (cid:455)ears" old. Australopithecus direct ancestor of ourselves, the genus homo as in homo erectus and homo sapiens. Inca pre-columbian civilizations revered mountains as deities. John reinhard made 200 ascents, discovered 50 high altitude inca ritual site, 14 human sacrifices on five mountains 18 000 feet or higher. No one else has climbed more andean peaks. Language and the effects of losing a language. > africa was cradle of humanity not asia or europe.
