CEUS-R 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Shifting Cultivation, Mixed Economy, Phenotypic Plasticity

• School: IU
• Department: Central Eurasian Studies
• Course: CEUS-R 310
• Professor: Elisabeth Lloyd

Document Summary

Anthropology: the study of mankind, why we behave, look, vary from other cultures: archaeology- the study of the materials, artifacts, and cultures in past, biological- focus on humans as a biological species. Genetics, evolution, fossils, biology of living people, nonhuman primates: socio-culture- how and why human cultures differ. Kinship, religion, ecology economics: linguistic- language. similarities and differences in 3,000 languages. Reconstructing subsistence patterns- food, animals and plants, related economy, meal vs. diet, subsistence strategies: zooarchaeology: the study of past human use of animals, bones, teeth, antlers, shells, feathers, eggs, etc, 1. Identification locomotion patterns (difference how dogs run vs. how pigs run: diet (teeth and senses, evolution (animal relations, 2. Cranial functional morphology- shape of the skull (cranial function) The 5 senses and bones: touch- foramen magnum bone: hearing- auditory bulla bone, vision- orbit bone, smell- nasal concha/turbinate bone taste- palate bone.