ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ashley Montagu, Franz Boas, Upper Paleolithic
Document Summary
A proliferation of expressive arts such as portable figurines and cave art appears in the archaeological record. Defined as the study of humans in all times and all places. Defined as reconstructing past human life ways using material remains left behind in the ground. Subfield of anthropology concerned with the study of live humans and their living cultures. This guy made up a skull with a big brain which is a lie because our ancestor had a small brain and walked on 2 legs. Put in chronological order woodland, paleoindian, archaic, mississippian. Described as the fluctuation of gene frequencies through time. Human ancestor is ice age adapted and went extinct in europe around 27 kya. Variation we see in earth"s surface is the result of uniform geological processes, volcanic activity. Phases of archaeological investigation: archival research, ethnography, shovel test. Phases of archaeological investigation:removal of whole site, dissemination of findings.
