ANTH 1000 Exam 1
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5 sub disciplines of anthropology
1. archaeology 2. physical/biological anthropology 3. linguistics 4. cultural anthropology 5. applied anthroplogy
Archaeology
Looks at the material culture of past human behavior • Food production • Technology • Settleme...
5 sub disciplines of anthropology 1 archaeology 2 physicalbiological anthropology 3 linguistics 4 cultural anthropology 5 applied anthroplogy
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ANTH 1000 Exam 1
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5 sub disciplines of 1. archaeology 2. physical/biological anthropology 3. linguistics 4.
anthropology cultural anthropology 5. applied anthroplogy
Looks at the material culture of past human behavior • Food production
Archaeology • Technology • Settlement patterns • Identity Can also be divided into •
Prehistoric Archaeology • Historic Archaeology
Paleoanthropology deals with human evolution
primatology looks at non-human primates as models for evolution
Biocultural
looks as human variation, contemporary population studies, and the
Anthropology and
study of skeletons and teeth
Genetics
Studies contemporary cultures and the diversity of culture through time
Cultural Anthropology and space Also looks at • Ethnographic fieldwork • Cross-cultural
similarities: Big picture
The practical application of anthropological techniques, methods, and
applied anthropology theory Examples: • Medical anthropology/public health • Forensic
anthropology • Cultural resources management
, the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the
anthropology emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological
variations among human populations
not based on traditional (folk) wisdom, but it is based on the natural
scientific knowledge observable world. It is broadly applicable (cross-cultural) and you can
generate a hypothesis using this type of knowledge
Uses observable testable data to generate a prediction and thus a
scientific method
hypothesis
hypothesis a testable proposition about a natural phenomenon
hypothesis that holds up to repeated testing over a very long period of
theory
time
• Life forms were “fixed” and all forms found on Earth were placed
Great Chain of Being
there by god o Exploration changed these perceptions
Nicholas Steno argued that the earth’s sediments were deposited in
Law of Superposition
layers from oldest to youngest
Developed a taxonomy of living species • Based on structure and form
Carolus Linnaeus
His major contributions were • Classification • Nomenclature
believed all life originated in the sea and that we all had a common
Erasmus Darwin
ancestor
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