1. Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials, 3rd Edition
CRAIG STANFORD
JOHN S. ALLEN
SUSAN C. ANTÓN

2. What is Biological Anthropology?
Chapter 1
What is Biological Anthropology?

3. Anthropology and Its Subfields
Cultural Anthropology
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Biological Anthropology

4. Cultural Anthropology
The study of human societies,
especially in a cross-cultural context
Ethnology
Ethnography
Applied Anthropology

5. Archaeology The study of the material culture of past peoples
Artifacts
Material Culture
Salvage Archaeology

6. Linguistic Anthropology
The study of language, its history and use; also called anthropological linguistics
Linguistic form
Linguistic function
Social Context

7. Biological Anthropologist:
Any scientist studying evolution as it
relates to the human species

8. The Scope of Biological Anthropology
Paleoanthropology
Skeletal Biology and Osteology
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology
Forensic Anthropology
Primatology
Human Biology

9. Paleoanthropology The study of the fossil record of
ancestral humans and their primate kin

10. Skeletal Biology and Human Osteology
The study of the skeleton and the
patterns and processes of human growth,
physiology, and development

11. Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology
The study of the disease in ancient
human populations

12. Forensic Anthropology
The study of human remains
applied to a legal context

13. Primatology The study of the non-human primates and
their anatomy, genetics, behavior, and ecology

14. Human Biology Deals with human growth and development,
adaptation to environmental extremes,
and human genetics

15. The Roots of Modern Biological Anthropology
Fossil hominid discoveries
Darwin
Physical anthropology
Sherwood Washburn’s Synthesis
Field studies
New dating techniques
Multidisciplinary approach