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Anthropology - Answer-the holistic study of human beings The 4 Sub fields of Anthropology - Answer-Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistic, Biological/Physical Cultural Anthropology - Answer-the study of human societies, especially in a cross cultural context. Ethnography - Answer-in depth study...

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Physical Anthropology Exam 1
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Anthropology - Answer-the holistic study of human beings

The 4 Sub fields of Anthropology - Answer-Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistic,
Biological/Physical

Cultural Anthropology - Answer-the study of human societies, especially in a cross
cultural context.

Ethnography - Answer-in depth study of a particular culture

ethnology - Answer-the comparative study of ethnographic data

Applied Anthropology - Answer-the application to solve practical problems
(non-academic, in the field, e.g. medical anthropology)

Culture - Answer-strategies humans use to adapt to their environment
-it is learned - begins at birth
- predisposition to assimilate culture profoundly influenced by biological factors

archaeology - Answer-the study of the material culture of past peoples
(ex: artifacts and material culture)
(prehistoric, historic, etc.)

Linguistic Anthropology - Answer-the study of speech and language; and it's history and
use`

Physical Anthropology - Answer-the study of humans as biological organisms,
considered in an evolutionary framework

or

a biological science that deals with adaptations, variability, and evolution of human
beings and their living and fossil relatives

Biocultural Evolution - Answer-biology makes culture possible - culture further
influences the direction of biological evolution

...Over time, culture and biology interacted in such a way that humans are said to be the
result of biocultural evolution

Father of Physical Anthropology - Answer-Blumenbadk (early 1800s)

, Blumenbadk - Answer-(Father of Physical Anthropology)
- he was a physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist
- father of craniometry

Paul Broca - Answer-[1824-1880]

craniometry

Franz Boaz - Answer-[1858-1942]

against hierarchical racism; environment can influence ALL

Ales Hrdlicka - Answer-1st. Forensic Anthropologist at the Smithsonian
[1869-1943]

Earnest Hooten - Answer-measured criminal skulls [1887-1954]

Who formed the American Association of Physical Anthropologists? - Answer-Sherwood
Washburn in 1930.

Sherwood Washburn - Answer-formed the AAPA in 1930 @ 18 years old
revitalized Physical Anth.
trained anthropologists

The Four Subfields of Physical Anthropology - Answer-Paleoanthropology,
Paleopathology, (Skeletal) Osteology, and Forensic Anthropology

Skeletal Biology or Human Osteology - Answer-the study of the skeleton and the
patterns and processes of human growth, physiology, and development

Paleoanthropology - Answer-the study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their
primate kin

Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology - Answer-the study of disease in ancient human
populations--- the study of human remains from archaeological sites

Forensic Anthropology - Answer-they study of human remains applied to a legal context

Primatology - Answer-the study of the non-human primates and their anatomy, genetics,
and behavior and ecology

Human Biology - Answer-Deals with human growth/development, adaptation to
environmental extremes, and genetics

Adaptations - Answer-physiological response to environmentally induced stress

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