Historic archaeology:
a. deals with that vast segment of the human cultures that existed prior to written history.
b. analyzes the first stone tools used by humans and infers about cultures based solely on this evidence.
c. works to reconstruct the cultures of people who used writing and about whom records exist.
d. is a form of applied anthropology in which archaeologists reconstruct cultures for museums.
e. works to protect cultural resources.
Question 2
Physical anthropologists are interested in human variation today:
a. so that they can explain the fixed characteristics of racial categories.
b. because it allows us an understanding of how humans adapt to the environment.
c. as a way of explaining differences in intelligence and personality.
d. because people are more diverse today than they were in the past.
e. because they wish to better understand human potential and better ways to apply anthropology.
Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica was an important early work on the human species.
Time Line of Human History From Upper Paleolithic Period to the Present
Human Fetus
The early stages of the human life cycle.
Human-Generated Aerosols
All human organ systems and their functions (Part 1)