ANT 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, Chin
15 Sep 2017
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Exams (4) are comprehensive, not cumulative including the final exam. 10 homework assignments, do not submit until finished, worth 20%. Visit the hudson museum with a short follow up quiz. Archaeology: systematic study of the past, finding and analyzing remains by: Site: any area altered by human activity, occupied for any span of time from minutes to millennium. Gold: very stable, lasts a very long period of time. Excavation is destruction, what is destroyed is context. Materials: pottery, metal, wood, bone, gourd, stone, cloth, etc. As a discipline: grew out of 18th and 19th century european interest in human diversity. Multi-disciplinary field: humans are social and biological creatures. Humans: unconscious desire to validate our theory, difficulty in avoiding culture bound hypothesis. Anthropology: the study of people, from origins to present. Physical: focusses on biological organisms, human growth, genetics, paleoanthropology. Social-cultural: focusses on humans as culture producing creatures. Archaeology: prehistory (no writing system), history (writing system).
