Archaeological Anthropology – Anthropology Notes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.

প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক নৃবিজ্ঞান – নৃবিদ্যা নোট – WBCS পরীক্ষা।

Archaeological anthropology has been derived from the broad field of Archaeology (archaios means ancient and logia means study) which is concerned with the study of the extinct cultures. Man, the central figure of anthropology existed long before the development of written record. Therefore, archaeology is able to supplement anthropology by recovering the remains of ancient men of bygone days along with the material evidences of his culture.Continue Reading Archaeological Anthropology – Anthropology Notes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.

Classical archaeology is a combination of fine arts, history and classics. It seeks the antiquities of the past. So it cannot be an exclusive domain of anthropologists, but anthropologists have to depend on archaeologists in describing the human of the past and to find out the ancient cultures which were flourished before 5000 years from now.

Archaeologists often work with the paleontologists, geologist, and chemists to reconstruct the days of prehistory. For many parts of the world like Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia and most of the New World and Africa, knowledge of writing is fairly recent. Naturally to discover the prehistoric man and his cultural activities, anthropologists have found no way other than to rely on the archaeologist’ work.

Archaeology, thus, has become an indispensable part of anthropology. Without archaeology, physical anthropologists could not have been successful in determining the place of Homo sapiens in nature; the long process of human development would very little to be understood.

Cultural anthropology also depends on archaeology. Cultural anthropologists deal with the social behaviour of man; the past and the present are equally important to them. They trace the emergence and development of customs and social behaviour from the prehistoric level and go up to the contemporary level where both the primitive and civilized people from the social counterpart.

Since most of the evidences of human life in prehistoric days are intangible and perishable, they leave no permanent imprint behind. Past life-ways and cultural processes can only be understood on the basis of a few tools, which have been dug out and interpreted by the archaeologists.Archaeology considers multifarious events of past, dates them and builds up the sequences. In this respect the prehistoric part of the cultural anthropology is akin to archaeology. Not only it attempts to describe the early men and their way of living; it also discusses the genesis of cultural capacity in order to explain the cultural development and diversities through time and space. Cultural anthropology would stand meaningless and incomplete without the aid of archaeology.

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