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ANTH 1000 Exam 1 Question Answer 5 sub disciplines of anthropology 1. archaeology 2. physical/biological anthropology 3. linguistics 4. cultural anthropology 5. applied anthroplogy Archaeology Looks at the material culture of past human behavior • Food production • Technology • Settlement patterns • Identity Can also be divided into • Prehistoric Archaeology • Historic Archaeology Paleoanthropology deals with human evolution primatology looks at non-human primates as models for evolution Biocultural Anthropology and Genetics looks as human variation, contemporary population studies, and the study of skeletons and teeth Cultural Anthropology Studies contemporary cultures and the diversity of culture through time and space Also looks at • Ethnographic fieldwork • Cross-cultural similarities: Big picture applied anthropology The practical application of anthropological techniques, methods, and theory Examples: • Medical anthropology/public health • Forensic anthropology • Cultural resources management anthropology the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological variations among human populations scientific knowledge not based on traditional (folk) wisdom, but it is based on the natural observable world. It is broadly applicable (cross-cultural) and you can generate a hypothesis using this type of knowledge scientific method Uses observable testable data to generate a prediction and thus a hypothesis hypothesis a testable proposition about a natural phenomenon theory hypothesis that holds up to repeated testing over a very long period of time Great Chain of Being • Life forms were “fixed” and all forms found on Earth were placed there by god o Exploration changed these perceptions Law of Superposition Nicholas Steno argued that the earth’s sediments were deposited in layers from oldest to youngest Carolus Linnaeus Developed a taxonomy of living species • Based on structure and form His major contributions were • Classification • Nomenclature Erasmus Darwin believed all life originated in the sea and that we all had a common ancestor Jean Baptiste Lamarck • Individuals respond to

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