ANTH1210

• Introduction to Anthropology & Archaeology
• Little Review of Chp 1: What is Anthropology
• Archaeological Methods & Materials
• How Sites are Formed
• Dating Methods
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• These highly popular sessions are open to faculty, staff, and students on a drop-in basis
• Session


  Wednesday January 24 at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• Session


  Wednesday February 14 at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• Session


  Thursday March 14 at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• Session


  Tuesday April 2 at 12 - 1:30 p.m.
• Student Accessibility Services
• Volunteer Note-takers Needed!
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• UM Learn: notes (text only) will be posted following Thursday's class
• Note on recording – no recording
• Part of an Introductory course: learning both the 'vocabulary' and the theory/interests/methods of the field
• All parts of the textbook are relevant (including, for example, 'Perspectives on Gender' and 'Current Research and Issues' articles)
• University email for course correspondence
• Anthropology


  Broadly, the study of human (and related) populations
• Anthropology


  • Holistic / Biocultural approach: biology, culture, environment
  • An interest in VARIATION or DIVERSITY, both biological and cultural, in human populations
• Ember et al., p.12: [ca. 1990s]: 'the idea that human biological diversity is interrelated to changes in environmental conditions, and that one of humankind's greatest adaptive strategies is the development of culture. Thus, the interactions of biology, behaviour, and environment are ultimately linked together, and changes in one can often be explained by changes in the others.'
• Biological variation


  Influenced by genetics, environmental forces ('adaptation'), culture (technology), ultimately shaped by the major evolutionary forces (gene flow, random genetic drift, natural selection, mutation)
• Cultural variation


  The by-product of learned behaviour, the result of membership in a culture group (e.g. how we learn how to interact with the world around us; our expectations; what is expected of us; our likes; our dislikes; our cell phones; etc.)
• 4 major subfields of Anthropology

  • Social / Cultural
  • Linguistic
  • Physical / Biological
  • Archaeology
• The Ethnologist and the Archaeologist


  Share the same ultimate goals, but the Ethnologist collects data through (participant) observation and interviews, while the Archaeologist uncovers the fragmentary remains of past cultures to make inferences
• Subfields of Biological Anthropology

  • Skeletal Biology & Forensic Anthropology
  • Human Biology
  • Population Genetics & Molecular Anthropology
  • Primatology (biological/behavioural comparisons: shared traits, unique 'human' traits)
  • Palaeoanthropology (a subfield of Palaeontology which focuses on human evolution, including evolutionary relationships with non-human primates)
• Types of Archaeology


  • Prehistoric Archaeology ('historic' – relating to the emergence of written records in the last 5000 years)
  • Classical Archaeology (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece)
  • Historical Archaeology (combined with the historical record; or representative of populations/groups not producing or participating in written language)
  • Zooarchaeology
  • Ethnoarchaeology (the study of material culture production/use in contemporary populations to make inferences about/understand the past)