The Biocultural Approach
What is Anthropology I
What is Anthropology II
Archaeology
The Scientific Method
100
Addresses the entire scope of the human experience, past and present. It is often described as a holistic discipline and is the study of humankind. Field of inquiry that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology.
What is Anthropology
100
Functional response of organisms to the environment. Results from revolutionary change.
What is Adaptation
100
The study of skeletal material. Human this focuses on the interpretation of the skeletal remains of past groups.
What is Osteology
100
Is a body of methods designed to understand the human past through the examination and study of its material remains. Its primary data are artifacts and other material culture, associations, and contextual information created by past peoples.
What is Archaeology
100
Facts from which conclusions can be drawn; scientific information.
What is Data
200
An approach to research whereby a problem is identified, a hypothesis is stated or explained, and that hypothesis is tested through the collection and analysis of data.
What is scientific method
200
The study of all aspects of human behavior. Its beginnings are rooted in the Enlightenment of the 18th century
What is Cultural Anthropology
200
An applied anthropological approach dealing with legal matters.
What is Forensic Anthropology
200
The study of human speech and language, including the origins of language in general as well as specific languages. Can identify language families and past relationships between human populations
What is Linguistic Anthropology
200
A provisional explanation of a phenomenon. Requires repeated testing.
What is Hypothesis
300
All aspects of human adaptation including technology, traditions, language, religion, and social roles. Is a set of learned behaviors; it is transmitted from one generation to the next through learning and bot by biological or genetic means.
What is Culture
300
The study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture.
What is Physical Anthropology
300
The study of the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates (prosimians, monkeys, and apes).
What is Primatology
300
Viewing other cultures from the inherently biased perspective of one's own culture.
What is Ethnocentric
300
Viewing other cultures from the inherently biased perspective of one's own culture.
What is Ethnocentric
400
A group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Members of one of these are reproductively isolated from members of all other these.
What is Species
400
Three main subfields: 1. Cultural or Social 2. Archaeology 3. Physical or Biological
What are the major specializations within anthropology
400
The interdisciplinary approach to the study of earlier hominins - their chronology, physical structure, archaeological remains, habitats, etc.
What is Paleoanthropology
400
Well-substantiated explanations of natural phenomena, supported by hypothesis testing and by evidence gathered over time. Also allow scientists to make predictions about as yet unobserved phenomena.
What is Theory
500
The mutual, interactive evolution of human biology and culture; the concept that biology makes culture possible and that developing culture further influences the direction of biological evolution; a basic concept in understanding the unique components of human evolution.
What is Biocultural Evolution
500
Holistic perspective, which integrates the findings of many disciplines, including sociology, economics, history, psychology, and biology. Encompasses all topics related to behavior. Incorporates findings from many academic fields.
What are the important features of an anthropological approach
500
Research question identified Information is gathered Observations made Hypothesis developed Scientific testing of hypothesis Accepted as theories
What is The Scientific Method
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