Burke ANTH 1210 Winter 2025 Week1 UMLearn PDF

ANTH 1210 Ancient Peoples and Places Welcome back!  BECOME A VOLUNTEER NOTETAKER Why? Help reduce barriers for your peers Contribute to creating an inclusive University of Manitoba Receive recognition on your Experience Record How? Login and...

ANTH 1210 Ancient Peoples and Places Welcome back!  BECOME A VOLUNTEER NOTETAKER Why? Help reduce barriers for your peers Contribute to creating an inclusive University of Manitoba Receive recognition on your Experience Record How? Login and upload your notes directly at https://sasclockwork.cc.umanitoba.ca/ClockWork/ Submit notes in your preferred style (typed or handwritten) It only takes an extra 15 minutes weekly http://umanitoba.ca/student-supports/accessibility  A Few Items for Review 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) – use the link, not the bookstore version University email for course correspondence  Introduction to Anthropology & Archaeology Little Review of Chp 1: What is Anthropology Archaeological Methods & Materials How Sites are Formed Dating Methods  What is Anthropology? Broadly, the study of human (and related) populations Holistic / Biocultural approach: biology, culture, environment – 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.”  What is Anthropology? Overall, an interest in VARIATION or DIVERSITY, both biological and cultural, in human populations…  What is Anthropology? 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)  What is Anthropology? 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. Sam Dunn the culture of ‘niches’ (including generational niches)  What is Anthropology? 4 major subfields: – Social / Cultural – Linguistic – Physical / Biological – Archaeology These seemingly different subfields ultimately overlap in interests and intent, though methodologies might differ, for example…  What is Anthropology? The Ethnologist and the Archaeologist share the same ultimate goals…. Both study the ways in which culture develops and changes, but… The Ethnologist collects data through (participant) observation and interviews, while…  What is Anthropology? The Archaeologist uncovers the fragmentary remains of past cultures to make inferences – i.e., the archaeologist has access to “material culture”  Archaeology Prehistoric Archaeology (‘historic’ – relating to the emergence of written records in the last 5000 years) Classical Archaeology (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece)  Archaeology Historical Archaeology (combined with the historical record; or representative of populations/groups not producing or participating in written language)  Archaeology Zooarchaeology  Archaeology Ethnoarchaeology (the study of material culture production/use in contemporary populations to make inferences about/understand the past)  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)  Anthropology Social/Cultural Archaeology Biological Linguistic Ethnoarchaeology Prehistoric Historical Classical Zooarchaeology  Anthropology Social/Cultural Archaeology Biological Linguistic Primatology Osteology Palaeoanthropology Human Biology Genetics Medical Growth & Anthropology Development Nutrition Epidemiology Demography