Anthropology-140 Ch. 1 Questions And
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Cultural Anthropology the study of human societies in a cross-cultural and focuses on
how people lead their daily lives is at the heart of the field. Ethnology, one of the subfields of
cultural anthropology, is the study of human societies and of ...
Cultural Anthropology the study of human societies in a cross-cultural and focuses on
how people lead their daily lives is at the heart of the field. Ethnology, one of the subfields of
cultural anthropology, is the study of human societies and of the behavior of people within those
societies. The practice of ethnology is called ethnography
Linguistic Anthropology is the study of the form, function, and social context of language.
Linguistic anthropologists usually are more interested in language use and the role that language
plays in shaping culture than they are in the technical aspects of language structure.
Archaeology Archaeology is the study of how people used to live, based on the materials,
or artifacts, they left behind. These artifacts, art, implements, and other objects of material
culture form the basis for the analysis and interpretation of ancient cultures.
Biological or "Physical" Anthropology is vastly wider than the study of primates, fossils,
and brain evolution. Any scientist studying evolution as it relates to the human species, directly
or indirectly, could be called a biological anthropologist. Six subfields of Biological
anthropology are: paleoanthropology, skeletal biology and osteology, paleopathology, forensic
anthropology, primatology, and human biology.
, Anthropology-140 Ch. 1 Questions And
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Paleoanthropology is the study of the fossil record for humankind, and fossilized remains
are the most direct physical evidence of human ancestry that we have to understand where we
came from. The discovery of skeletal evidence of new ancestral species, or additional specimens
of existing species, revises our view of the human family tree.
Also includes the study of the fossil record of the other primates—apes, monkeys, and
prosimians— dating back at least 65 million years. These early fossils give us key clues about
how, where, and why hominins evolved millions of years later.
Skeletal Biology and Human Osteology Osteology is the study of the skeleton. Firstly,
when a fossil is discovered is to figure out what sort of animal the fossil—often a tiny
fragment—may have been in life. Osteologists must therefore possess extraordinary skills of
identification and a keen spatial sense of how a jigsaw puzzle—an array of bone chips—fits
together when they are trying to understand the meaning of fossils they have found.
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology Hand in hand with skeletal biology are
paleopathology and bioarchaeology: the study of disease in ancient human populations, and the
study of human remains in an archaeological context.
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