ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stone Tool, Acheulean, Cultural Relativism

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Fricke

Document Summary

Sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society. Human beings use culture to adapt to and transform the world in which they live. A tool we have to talk about the human condition (humans must live in terms of meaning) Understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living. The opinion that one"s own way of life is natural or correct and indeed, the only true way of being fully human. A lower paleolithic stone-tool tradition with homo erectus and characterized by stone bifaces or hand axes . A characteristic of the anthropological perspective that describes, at the highest and most inclusive level, how anthropology tries to integrate all that is known about human beings and their activities. The species of large brained, robust hominins that lived between 1. 8 mya and 0. 4 mya.