P....is for
Following on again with Toni's A-Z, "a...is for" meme, today's letter is P. P....is for Paleoanthropology The study of the prehistoric human past is called "paleoanthropology". Anthropology itself refers to the study of human beings. Paleoanthropology is the study of human ancestors in the distant past. Since we cannot travel back in time to observe these ancestors, scientists must use other kinds of evidence to understand what happened. The people who study the human past do not call themselves archaeologists. There are historians and paleontologists, anthropologists and paleoanthropologists , forensic archaeologists and forensic anthropologists. Archaeology is the study of the relics of past humans and their behaviours . Paleoanthropology is the study of our near-human ancestors. I'd always been interested in this, but had a renewed interest in this subject when I first read the book "Clan o...