ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Roger Keesing, Homo Erectus

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 202
• Professor: Christine Jourdan

Document Summary

Language as a tool for communication: as a tool for communication, language is central to culture. The tower of babel by pieter brueghel the elder (1563) (source: kunsthistorisches museum, austria) (2) Language is part of the ontology of the world. Honiara, solomon islands, 1991 (source: c. jourdan) (3) Language is an inherent part of the human species and is part of its evolution. The development of language in relation to human evolution. All anthropologists believe that this third point is correct as it puts the development of language in relation to human evolution. Physical anthropologists and paleontologists looking at evolution can help in uncovering the origin of language. The key to understanding how language appeared is to examine its functions: communication between people, store knowledge, think, and express emotions. Language was such an adaptive advantage that it put humans ahead on the evolution track, more distant than other humanoids like.