There is a great relationship between archaeology and biological anthropology. Archaeology methods are used by anthropologists to trace biological remains and therefore helped to understand the evolution of primates. The intersection between the two fields, archaeology, and biological anthropology has recently become tight because both have exclusively focused on human’s ancestors. Archaeology applies various methods to trace fossil remains that biological anthropology uses to classify different primates according to their behaviors. The methods are excavations and archeological analyses, i.e., data collection and scientific methods such a carbon dating.
The method of excavations involves archeologists surveying an area believed to have fossils remains then use some tools to search in the field. This method requires energy and resources because sometimes fossil remains are trapped deep in the soil or in caves. When conducting excavations, the idea of stratigraphy is important because it makes archaeologists known which matter is lying on the closer to the top of the soil. The idea of stratigraphy can help us ide identify the ages and contexts of these fossil remains. The method of archeological analyses involves data collection of some details concerning the fossil conduct research. Carbon dating will help archaeologists find both the structure and potential age of the remains.
The study of anthropology has proved a number of fossilized hominin remains that provide evidence on the course of evolution primates. A good example is a hominin known as “Lucy.” This old fossil is 3.2 million-year-old remains of Australopithecus afarensis discovered in was Ethiopia in 1974. The earliest fossil was extricated from rocks and is body parts such as ankles and feet indicated bipedalism. Another fossil, best known as Aegyptopithecus, was discovered in Egypt. The primate had similarities with humans, such as many teeth, crania, and postcranial elements. Chororapithecus abyssinicus and Nakalipithecus nakayamai remains to be two species of fossils discovered from Africa.