I'm taking an archaeology class for my museum studies certificate and this is my favorite class ever! It is soo much fun to learn about how the part is dug and reconstructed! I love this class and I love all your videos so much they really help me better understand my class! Thank you!
Hi! I encountered this video while searching for the difference between Archaeology and Paleontology. I'm translating the book "Human Paleoneurology" into Farsi and I'm so glad to see your channel. I hope you're doing well and I just wanted to say you have an audience from Iran:) keep up the good work!
Im studying Prehistory and historical archeology and Paleobiology. In paleobiology I study plants, animals and humans and bc of the university I’m studying at I also have to take a lot of other biology courses and therefore I also focus on human evolution. I also have archeological work methods in Paleobiology. In my opinion it’s a great combo because I learn a lot of the working techniques that are helpful in archaeology and the knowledge that I learn in Paleobiology is very helpful in archaeology
Hi, I've been very interested in early humans for the last few years, and it seems that ALL videos that I've been finding on youtube about this subject, including the newest discoveries, seem to be from paleontologists. So, I was very surprised by how you are described Paleotology in this video.
Excellent video! It is a source of some frustration that we are so often thought of as studying dinosaurs. Most people seem to assume that we are just brushing them off when we say we cannot help identify their dinosaur fossilized bone, egg, etc., even after explaining that paleontology is a branch of geology, etc. The Society for American Archaeology released a video, several weeks of ago, about public perceptions of what archaeologists study; amazingly, even amongst college-educated people who claimed some prior knowledge about archaeology, about half still thought that archaeologists studied dinosaurs. I reckon there are some important overlaps, such as palynology and phytolith analysis, which are useful in providing dates for some types of sites/locations. From that kind of paleobiogeography data, we know a lot more about changes in past environmental conditions; so in eastern North America, for example, the climate was not entirely analogous to what it is now until about five thousand years before present. We also definitely owe a debt to geology's/paleontology's use of index fossils to mark horizons of major change; we did the same with artifacts. There is some overlapping interest with the megamammals, due to their importance to human subsistence in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene. Additionally, to tie back into your primatology video, and because I always loved how much it tested the boundaries of archaeology, Melissa Panger and Julio Mercader applied controlled archaeological excavation to a chimpanzee nut-cracking site under a Panda nut tree. Even more interesting, Melissa Panger later published on tool-making and use in early hominids, around 2.5 Mya, having derived some insights from applying archaeology to a non-human tool-using, resource extraction site where inter-generational knowledge was transmitted.
Wow, I had no idea about that video from the Society of American Archaeology-I'm gonna have to check that out. And yes there are definitely many overlaps between the two fields. One that comes to mind for me is paleoanthropology haha. Thanks so much for another thoughtful comment as always!
One question: what if one studies both organic remains and artefacts from non-sapient-humans and evolutionary relatives? If studying H. ergaster stone axes, is that archaeology?
Fantastic questions!! Studying stone axes would be considered archaeology but studying the remains of homo ergaster remains would be considered paleoanthropology. Does this answer the question? And you can be both a paleoanthropologist AND an archaeologist at the same time :)
I know it’s not your usual content but I think it would be interesting if you made a video with your boyfriend maybe asking him questions about anthropology or comparing his field to yours or something like that. Anyway just throwing an idea out there and contributing to the engagement algorithm
@@alisonmarsh9325 I know nothing about South Africa’s education system. Still in the uni web page for the course should tell you the requirements. At least in Europe all do
Great question-Luis is right, it depends mostly on the university. Although, usually completing your high school education requirements and graduating is enough to get started in anthropology :)
Uhh, what about paleo-anthropology? Seems kind of obvious. Oh, well. Maybe a future video. I'm far more concerned with woke ideology in the sciences. We all have got to work together to stop the wokesters from ruining anthropology and related fields.
