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Evidence
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A piece of an argument
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Big Problem with Evidence
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Evidence has to be interpreted.
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Archaeology
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The study of artifacts
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Artifact
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Anything modified by a human being
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What is the biggest artifact in the world?
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The United States Interstate and Defense System.
(The interstate) |
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Paleontology
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The study of old life.
Sub discipline of Biologist |
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Cultural anthropology
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Study of living societies
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Linguistics
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Systematic study of language.
Makes us human. |
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What are the four subfields of anthropology?
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Physical Anthropology
Archaeology Linguistic Anthropology Cultural anthropology/Ethnology |
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Physical anthropologists are experts on...
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The human body and what affects it.
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Paleoantrhopology
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The study of old human life
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Primatologist
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Study population genetics
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Cultural anthopology
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study of living societies
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Legal anthropology -
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works between different sets of laws set in different countries
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Applied anthropology
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practice of using anthropological skills to solve real world problems
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Medical anthropology
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the study of relationship between culture and health. Found mad cow disease and SARS.
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Regional archaeology
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Archaeologist concentrated in one region of the world.
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Classic archaeology
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Greek and Roman Period
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Biblical archaeology
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Check out if place in the bible has place and reference
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Archaeology of skills
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underwater archaeology.
Complicated and expensive. |
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Industrial Archaeology
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Study of big industry.
Highly specialized. |
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Urban archaeology
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Study of cities. Many modern cities have had people living there for thousands of years.
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Lithic Archaeologist
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Stone Artifacts
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Petrol Archaeologist
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Petrol (plastics) study
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Zoo Archaeologist
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Study animal bones
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Ethnobotanist
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Study of people and plants
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Ethnoarchaeologist
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study of living societies artifacts
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Cultural Resource Management
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Form of applied anthropology.
If highway goes through artifact, these guys recognize, warn, and then excavate artifacts to go in museum. |
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Which subfield has seen the greatest growth in recent years?
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Social subfield
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Formal Learning
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Where you have chosen to seek knowledge from another person.
Most societies, formal learning is forced. |
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Informal learning
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Makes up most learning.
Accounts for most of everything you know. |
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We learn mostly from
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each other
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What are the five major properties of culture?
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1. Learned
2. Shared 3. Patterned 4. Mutable 5. Symbolic |
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Ethnocentrism
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The idea that your culture is the right culture and others are wrong.
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Cultural Relatavism
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To understand 'their' point of view.
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Two forms of dating methods:
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Absolute dating methods
Relative dating methods |
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Absolute dating methods
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Date one event at one point in time. Provide a hard calendar number for the event.
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Ascribed dating
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When the date is stamped on the object.
Examples: gun parts. bullets. screws and such. Acribed dates go back only as far as records go. |
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Dendrochronology
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Using tree rings to determine time period. Accurate. Can only go back 7,000 years.
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Radiocarbon Dating
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Take something that used to be alive, measure carbon amount, see how much is broken down.
Destructive analysis. Good for 70,000 to 75,000 years. |
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Thermoluminescence - TL dating
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Quartz - Silica.
When silica is heated up, undergoes clock-setting event. Can be used to measure when artifacts were last heated to 600 degrees. |
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what is the most common element on the planet?
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Silica.
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Two other absolute dating methods
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Magnetic Spin Resonance Dating
Obsidian hydration dating. |
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Relative Dating Techniques
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What anthropologists use.
Do not provide a calendar number. |
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What is the best relative dating method?
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Stratigraphic.
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Law of supraposition
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older things are found beneath younger things in the earth.
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Seriation
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Only dating methods that actually date human behavior.
Purpose - to figure out what caused change in human population. A good seriation will show cultural change through time. |
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Worst plague to ever hit the human species.
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Spanish flu.
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Major Processes of evolution
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1. Natural selection
2. Gene flow 3. Mutation 4. Genetic Drift |
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Natural selection
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genetic change in a population resulting from differential reproductive success.
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Scientific law can be proven by...
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logic
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Scientific laws are axiomitized, which means...
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withstood the scrutiny of logic and mathematics. Results are predictable.
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What kind of theory is biological evolution?
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A natural historical theory. Based on overwhelming amount of evidence.
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Gene flow.
At what point in history was it highest? |
population interbreeding.
Today. |
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Mutation
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you know what a mutation is.
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Genetic drift
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what happens to a population of genes due to random forces of selection.
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