ANTA01H3 Midterm: Anthropology Midterm Notes
14 Nov 2012
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4 fields: archaeology, biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, & linguistics. Archaeology: the study of human history & prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts & other physical remains. (maritime archaeology, historical archaeology, monumental archaeology, palaeolithic/cave archaeology. ) Biological anthropology: the science of human zoology, evolution, and ecology. (bioarchaeology, bog bodies, paleoanthropology, primatology) Social/cultural anthropology: the comparative study of human societies & cultures & their development. Linguistics: the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. Archaeological methods: chronological methods to figure out how old things are. First bipeds-fossils: ardipithecus, and the australopithecines: human origins the eternal question historically 2 paths of understand: creation myths/religious explanations & scientific framework. Mirrors belief systems worldview and social structure. Hypothesis based on educated guesses, look for specific predicted data, testing. Only true when it cannot be proved wrong. Evolution & genetics; chapter 2 & chapter 3.
