Relationship of biological anthropology and earth sciences

 Relationship of biological anthropology and earth sciences: Anthropology and Earth Sciences have intimate relationship. The earth sciences include geology and human geography.

Archaeology is closely linked to geology in analyzing the archaeological sites and in dating the past and finding out the chronological sequence.

Anthropology, cutting across the barriers of time and space, naturally takes interest in men past especially prehistoric past.

Thus archaeologists may be seen serving as the ‘historians’ among anthropologists involved in the cultural reconstruction of man’s past.

Till sometimes back the term prehistory or prehistoric archaeology has been popular.

Unlike a socio-cultural anthropologist, an archaeological anthropologist cannot observe human behavior and culture directly but reconstructs them from material remains like pottery, tools, cave/rock paintings, ruins of shelter,ornaments and so many other material remains that survive the wear and tear of climatic factors.

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