ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Palynology, Oldowan, Bipedalism
20 Sep 2020
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Bipedal locomotion: walking on 2 legs most crucial change in early hominin evolution. Ethnographer: spend time living w/, examining, & interviewing group to describe their customs. Ethnohistorian: ethnologist uses historical docs to study how culture changed ot. Stratified site: archeological deposit w/ successive layers of past human"s occupation of site. Artifact: any object made by a human. Indicator artifacts/ecofacts: items that"ve rapidly changed = indicate relative age of assoc items. Ecofacts: natural items used by humans (ex. animal remains eaten or plant pollens @ sites) Features: artifacts made by humans that cannot be removed from a site. Midden: ancient large/very deep garbage dump used over a long period of time. Cultural ecology: analysis of rs b/w culture & it"s enviro. Fieldwork: 1st-hand experience w/ people studied & typical method that anthro info obtained. Recover, describe, & preserve sites/artifacts (to learn about past humans & their cultures) Reconstruct past lives; describe area"s cultural history; understand cultural evolution process.
