ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thymine, Centromere, Sociolinguistics
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Human variation (first half) human evolution (second half) Scantron 882-e (green) for quizzes, midterm and final exam. Before coming to class , read the summary of the lecture then read the introductory paragraph to the chapter, then introductory sentence to each paragraph, then read the last paragraph. Anthropology is the study of humanity; considered a holistic science because it is concerned with every aspect of humanity, whether it"s bone structure, economics, education system, marriage patterns. Two main branches of anthropology are cultural & physical, Subfields of cultural anthropology ( study of patterns of belief and biological. behavior found in modern and historical cultures. Ethnology is the study of recent/existing cultures. The study of the characteristics of different peoples and the differences and relationships between them. Archaeologists obtain information by artifacts and structures left behind by earlier cultures. Archaeology attempts to reconstruct ancient cultures, using artifacts.
