ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adam Kadmon, Human Behavior, Forensic Anthropology
24 May 2016
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Ant 101h introduction to biological anthropology & archaeology. The study of the human experience from multiple perspectives (lewis et al. , 2013) The biocultural approach: way you examine human behavior within a society and humans species. Human behavior that is learned and shared by members of a society. Scientific method (generating question, give a hypothesis about a research area, and then generate data, then we analyze it, and then we discuss, and form a theory ). Ethnographies (written description of a particular culture or society) Cross cultural studies(ethnologies: compare ethnographies: linguistics. Includes both the origins of language in general and analysis of specific languages (lewis et al. , 2013) There is an intricate link between language with culture. Culture is not an unique human trade: archaeology. The study of material remains left by cultures, primarily of the past. Prehistorical (first nations archeology, absence of written documents) Public archeology (cultural resource management crm: biological/physical anthropology (bio/phys same thing)
