Archeology

Archeology

The study of the human past through material remains

Anthropology

The study of all aspects of humankind- biological, cutural, and linguistics. extant or extinct- encompassing a holistic approach

Linguistic Anthropology

Includes language and thoughts, social lingistics, and historical linguistics

Cultural athropology

Ethnography and ethnology

biological anthropology

human evolution, human varation, and bioarchology

Archaeology

prehistoric, historical, and classical

The two types of ways to collect information

1. personal expriences/observations

2. testimoney and accounts from others

The major flaws is that we can't our own sense and others motivations

The 4 principles of science

1. The universe is real

2. The universe is observable: the world works on laws we can view

3. The universe is immutable: laws won't change on a whim

4. The universe is knowable: we can discover and test these laws to understand

Epistomology

The study of how we know what we know

Red flags of hoaxes

• are the credentials relavent?

• how much buzz words are being used

• too many questions?

• bold/exciting claims

• Spurious corellation: two things LOOK connected but aren't

Confirmation bais

When we believe something because it is confirming our belief as it validates your opinion or feelings.

Occams Razor

When the explination is the simple answer

Why commit fraud?

• money

• fame

• personal gain

• prove a point

How to get away with a hoax

• give the people what they want

• entertain them

• dont get TOO famous

• learn from the mistakes

• know your fraud. the more YOU know about your fraud the easier it is to fool experts

Evolution

Genetic over long periods of time. the cause of biological diversity

Fossils

The remains of plants and animals preserved into stones through mineralization

Taphony

The process of transformation, decompisition, errosion, etc. its why we have such limited amounts of fossils

The 3 B's of evolution

1. Bipedal locomation

2. Brain expansion

3. Birth

Hominins

Modern humans

Hominids

Anything human

Where were most hominid fossils found?

Africa, east africa in particular

The Celutrean theory

Ancestors from west europe crossed the atlantic ocean during the ice age while most of the ocean was ice, landing in North America in following the food

Bering Strait Theory

Native ancestors were asian, they travelled north at the end of the ice age and reached Siberia, which at the time was connected to Alaska. Then travelled south in North America and becoming the native tribes we know of

Ice-free Corridor

One of the two ways we could have populated North America. lots of evidence shows that they travelled through an opening between two of the ice plates and followed the food down and through

Coastal Route

The migrating groups went down the coast from Alaska, eating food from the sea and then docking to go in land. It explains how we have natives so down south in South America so close to when the migration just began