ANTH 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

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

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Discussion activity: there will be a discussion activity for each lesson. Let"s listen to dr. deborah gewertz, professor of anthropology, amherst college and dr. frederic errington, professor of anthropology, trinity college, connecticut, tell us how they became anthropologists, and why they decided to carry out research in. Papua new guinea, a country located in the southwest pacific, north of australia. Physical anthropologists (first subfield) study the physical dimension of human beings; divided into paleontologists and primatologists: paleontologists study human evolution (paleontology) => how pre-human creatures became human beings, the ancestry of homo sapiens. A famous example is the discovery in ethiopia in. 1974 of lucy,; a young female whose fossil remains date back 3. 2 million years, classified as an. Australopithecus afarensis: primatologists study the social life and behaviour of non-human primates, like chimpanzees (with whom we share 99% of our body chemistry) and gorillas, in the wild and captive, and experiment in animal psychology and ape language.