When I was 7 I went to the Mammoth Site in SD and corrected the guide when he referred to the "archaeologists" who dug up the fossils. One of my proudest moments :)
Thank you Hank! I can't believe you made this video, it made my day. I am a consultant archaeologist and the two questions I get most often are "so you find dinosaur bones right?" and "have you worked in Egypt?". Obviously not for both, I live and work in Canada. Also! Where I work now, "prehistoric" is known as "precontact" and "historic" is known as "postcontact". We stay away from terms like prehistoric because it gives the impression that before Europeans came to North America there was no history (which is not true at all). So if you want to impress us even more that those cocktail parties, ask if we do "precontact" or "postcontact" archaeology ;)
DysnomiaFilms Recorded in writing? No. But oral histories are important and we take them seriously. Depends on where you are I guess. In some places there may be a difference between them (South American archaeology?) Over here they're synonymous, just a slight update in required terminology for reports :)
I. M'Notreal Unfortunately NO, because the term is already taken for those who study ancient ANIMALS. (The word palaeontology literally means 'the study of ancient beings'... on (ontos) is the present participle of einai (to be), while palaion and arkhaion both mean ancient.)
Correctrix You're right about Egypt etc. Archaeological terms change significantly around the world. I was describing what we use in my province. I'm sorry I was ambiguous about that (I wrote that comment waaaay too late last night haha). It's a term that works best for the people and time frame we work with here, definitely not a global thing. Use "prehistoric" all you want.
When I was 4 I decided I wanted to be an archeologist. At five I learned that it was a paleontologist I really wanted to be as I was crazy into dinosaurs and their bones. My parents were awesome enough to buy me a huge kit with heaps of Dino skeletons to put together and take apart. I didn't become a paleontologist, but I do still love studying on the side. Thanks for the vid :)
This is a great episode! If you ever consider another episode of "know your scientists", you might consider writing about the difference between a "psychiatrist" and a "psychologist". People get that mixed up all the time!
Archaeologists aren't grave robbers. That would imply theft of material culture, which doesn't happen under the supervision of actual accredited archaeologists.
in other words Archaeology = The folks on Time Team (other than Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Blackadder) who's the host) Paleontology = Ross Geller from Friends
I find the way Hank emphasizes with his hands fascinating. I would have absolutely no idea what to do with my hands, but he seems to be moving them around and expressing with them quite naturally. Do you think he's always been good at it, that he practices, or that is it just something he's gotten used to from years of vloging?
Gesturing with your hands is something that you sort of pick up from those around you and develop on your own. Awkwardness usually comes with discomfort. As an example, someone who gestures with their hands regularly in a casual discussion with their friends may get fidgety and confused when giving a presentation.
I've never vlogged in my life but people always tell me that i use my hands a lot when i talk but it's so natural for me i don' t even realise. I think it's a cultural thing more than anything. I know that italians are famous for their wild hand gestures when talking
seigeengine Being someone who gestures almost everything, I don't get fidgety or confused in presentation. Actually, I do as I would in any conversation, and in a presentation I have things to point at and interact with. It feels much more natural than gesturing in a regular convo.
Not anymore it shouldn't. Museums have come under fire in recent decades over rights to materials acquired in unsavory ways. There's a real clusterfuck around the Elgin Marbles, for example.
***** But what could possibly be unsavory about stealing an idol important to a tribal culture to be put on display in a land they've never heard of? I mean, they wouldn't have put all those traps around it if they hadn't wanted me to find a way through all of them to take away an important part of their culture.
Dantick09 Ha, nice troll. Dr. Jones was an Archaeologist and did not study dinosaurs. From what I can tell from the movies mostly he studied religion artifacts.
This was really interesting! I'd love to see 'Know Your Scientists' episodes about all the very different fields within Biology, Chemistry and Physics too
Sad thing about Archeology. There just isn't enough money or space to preserve all the things they find, so a lot of stuff just ends up getting destroyed. I mean, there is only so much space for ancient bowls and the like.
what's sad is many places only get discovered when they are building something that could destroy the landscape, like a man made lake. that happened where I live. archaeologists were working against the clock to get as much information as possible from mounds and other such things before the water rose too much. I'm pretty sure a lot of stuff got destroyed or just buried when the lake filled in
Thank you so much for this video! I've been exploring different careers to take after getting my history degree, and since I started working in natural history museums I wondered what the differences was between these two fields, as well as the difference between history and anthropology (apparently archeology is a part of anthropology). Thanks for this clear and informative video. Loving Scishow more and more!
"Just, for the love of _peat_, do not mention dinosaurs." _...Get it?_ Because peat is good at preserving artefacts and remains? I'll escort myself out.
Hi Scishow! If you're going to turn this into a series (which you totally should) would you consider doing an episode on the difference between a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist? It's a very common mistake, and an easy one to rectify. Also! Maybe explain some of the different types of Psychologists (clinical versus research, social, developmental, etc). Not everything we do is about psychoanalysis. Love the show!!
Is there anyway you could do a video explaining that smell is not a part of taste? I'm anosmic (unable to smell) and am getting tired of having to explain that I have 0 issues tasting food.
nja122890 Well, smell and taste are basically the same thing in most animals, as far as the brain is concerned. Human beings have a much more developed sense of taste then most animals, and because of that, our sense of taste has separate more from our sense of smell. While it is perfectly normal to not be able to smell, and taste just fine (at least in humans), food does taste significantly different without a sense of smell, because they are still deeply connected senses.
Art Murder The senses of taste and smell are often activated together due to their being chemoreceptors sharing the pharyngeal cavity, but at the level of the brain, smell and taste are completely separate entities. Smell is processed in the forebrain while taste is processed in the caudal brainstem. Where you (and most people) err is that you equate the flavour of food with its taste. Taste comes only from the taste buds. Flavour, on the other hand, is what you get when you combine the gustatory information with information from the olfactory receptors and the trigeminal receptors of the oronasopharyngeal mucosa. For most people, the difference is pedantry, but for someone who has to field the misconception constantly, it's anything but.
When I was going up I wanted to be a paleontologist. I not involved with paleontology now but I still like to keep myself up to date with new discoveries. Still find it exciting.
I've got a master in Science-based Archaeology and a minor in Meso-American Archaeology. Explaining what's what is always fun at parties. Also as soon as an ammonite fossil is dug up, decorated and buried for a few hundred years it becomes both Paleontology and Archaeology..... sort of....
Khuratokh I've sort of some science based archaeology, since in my area of archaeology you sometimes deal with bodies, we have been taught some forensic archaeology
Whoa...my earphones were poorly connected and I heard a sort of unmixed version of the intro theme, and it was awesome! And thanks for clearing up what paleontology is, I always get confused when names like 'paleo' diet come up.
Speaking as a paleontologist: THANK YOU! I've had no shortage of problems arising from the fact that people simply do not understand this concept. In fact, many regulations governing paleontological resources (lawyer-speak for "fossils") are either based on or a part of archaeological legislation. Which leads to fun situations where the laws intended to protect the scientific integrity of fossils actually work against protecting the scientific integrity of fossils. That said, body farms and archaeological work are two of the best sources for taphonomic information (ie, info on how organisms decay). "Archaeology of Human Remains" sits right alongside my books on vertebrate paleontology, because it's the best book I've found for how large vertebrates fall apart and decay through time. And then there are fun things like mammoth ribs with bone spear points in them. Is it archaeological, or paleontological? Always a fun question to ask a group of achaeo/paleo folks in a bar! :D
I came here expecting to have to correct you about something. BUT YOU DID SO GOOD!!! this is like a perfect video for an archaeologist. thank you!! I'm just gonna link this to people when they ask me
I.. how would someone not know the difference? My grandma was into archeology, used to dig next to a river looking for arrowheads and boiling stones when I was little and before. So I grew up knowing the difference.
Thank you! YES! As a past archaeologist, this is/was my biggest pet peeve! I am always dumbfounded by the number of people who don't know the difference.
As a medical lab technologist, I get annoyed when people think I'm a lab assistant who collects blood. Or they think I'm a nurse cause I work in a hospital! Rant over...
Einstain's theory and time paradox question: We know that if some object is in motion, the time for it goes by slower. Let's consider following situation: two trains are going in an opposite direction. There is a clock in each train. From Train 1 perspective, the other train is in motion, so the time goes by slower for it, but you could say the same about Train 2 - from its perspective, the Train 1 is in motion, so it's actualy the Train 1, where the time goes by slower. Reassuming - each train sees the other train as if the time goes by slower for that other train. Question is - if we compare clocks from both trains, what will they show? If they'd show the same time, then why is there even the "Twin paradox"? If they'd show different time, then what would the difference be?
No care with what name have the kind of archaeology done,but your meaning for us.Find the past of humans and your relationships,that's it.The archaeology have been very important to find answers for many questions about us,how was religion,trade,war,marry and several others.
I work in a museum and I have to FIGHT THE URGE to correct people whenever they make this mistake! It's common but as someone who's volunteered in both fields and who constantly runs into that mistake, it really wears you down. My favorite thing is when people (mostly kids) know the difference better than their parents.
I recall having once read that many archeologists in past war time were used as spies. Because, they were often not restricted in what they could do or where they could go based on nationality or particular affiliations (like soldiers or civilians might be), and had little attention on them while war was raging around them (they aren't expected to be doing anything more then concerning themselves with the past as apposed to current events).
Gray light doesn't exist. White light is red, green and blue light all equally strong to the human eye at once. Gray is the same thing, but under conditions where there is a stronger source of light too, making the white light seem dimmer, and thus gray. However, an actual light source will never appear gray.
HaloWolf HD Grey is not a color, it's how our eyes and brain works. Our eyes are built to notice a few main things, I'll focus two of them:1. Contrast of colors, you can see, for example in my picture, that the color moves from blue, to green, too yellow, to orange etc. You don't mash those colors together when there is a contrast, you can define a line that says, here it ends and here the next color starts. 2. The important one to explain gray: Contrast in "strength" light. Basicly how 'dense' is the flow of light that enters your retna. The rods (or cones, always mix them up) in the back of your eye detect light that's in the range of a human vision. And if there is alot of light hitting it in a certain moment it will tell that to the brain. So, when the brain proccess this data, it makes the image so some colors will look less "bright". When you detect a White color (Which is basicly all, or at least most of the colors we can see), But that white light is less bright than what the rods consider as strong. Then the image will be more gray. And btw, white is not on the spectrum as well.
Grey is a shade. That is, to say it very plainly, it's the amount of light, not the light's colour, or anything else. What we think of when we think of grey would be white light, but any colour at low "quantity" appears greyish.
I'm studying Palaeolithic Archaeology which is the study of early humans remains 'bones', artefacts and biofacts from 10,000 BCE to 1.5 million years ago . It also includes the study of human evolution * such as "Neanderthal" bones and etc. I do also study the animals that were around humans like Mammoths.
if i am not wrong i have dove that specific shipwreck like a thousand times i might even dive it today! it is found in a little town in Mexico, between Cancun and Playa del carmen, the town is Puerto morelos, the shipwreck is called Juan Escutia or the C-56, beautiful dive.
As a paleontologist i appreciate this video. I know a couple of paleobotanists and ichnologists who'd be just as mad for being those being called sub-fields of paleontology though :D Basically you could divide paleo into micro and macro, the latter into vertebrate and invertebrate and from there go into the different groups of animals and one celled organisms.
My mom studied to be a classical archeologist, and my dad is a photographer who records archeological finds. He has a collegue who is an expert in pollen... but he works at the archeological service. Does that make him an archeologist or a paleontologist?
***** If he studies the pollen in order to understand the relation of specific plants and the people who used and worked with them, then he's probably an archeobotanist. Why don't you ask your mom D:?
fjoa123 He studies the pollen they find at archeological sites, to see what kind of plants were around at that time. So his work is archeological in nature, but the science itself is more paleontology I think. It's just a grey area is all.
Thats a mistake many people say, Paleontologists both dig and examine the fossils, Archaeologists *DO NOT* study fossils at all, they only study man-made things from a long time ago
Dan Negura He said flying reptiles. No flying reptiles were dinosaurs. Being big and reptilian during the cretaceous does not automatically make something a dinosaur.
Both have geological elements, and one could argue that they both have anthropological elements too. Science needs a massive venn diagram, as many fields overlap in some way yet are still distinct. Understanding that compare and contrast, connections and separations is one of the keys to intelligence.
two years ago i did see a tremendously large collection of fossilized insects, with a focus on fossilized bees. they had hundreds of bee fossils of varying age. i have also seen the majority of archaeopterix fossils, the original ones. one time when there were only 4 known archaeopterix fossils on the planet, i managed to see all 4. there are some truly amazing fossils on the market.
As an Anthropology major (cultural), I get "Oh finding fossils must be so fun!" and the like quite often. Archeology is one of four subfields of Anthropology. I know it's confusing, yet it would still be nice if people would know the difference.
Thank you for posting this! I too have gotten the dinosaur question way too many times. Also, people like to ask how much gold I've found and I like to use the Indiana Jones movies as a teachable moment.
YES, thank you thank you thank you. Best regards a study group currently studying for our archaeology exam. because what else would we do during our break? :)
Juli Pritchett Anthropology is the study of humans, including the humans alive today. There are then more specific branches such as biological anthropology and cultural anthropology, but they focus on modern humans just as much as those of the past.
Juli Pritchett Archaeology is a kind of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of humans, but usually when someone just says "anthropology" they mean cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologists study other cultures of living people.
mickycarcar This's correct,archaeology is part of anthropology.While archaeology studies the people in the pass and your interaction with the enviroment and others the anthropology studies the people in the present.
this is late, but I wanted to comment. anthropology is a broad subject with many sub-disciplines. three main categories are biological anthropology, cultural and archaeology. I find the cultural side boring and the other two more interesting, mainly because I wanted to be a forensic anthropologist
I had my heart set on being an archaeologist until I was about fifteen, when I realized that, although I'm very, very good at learning history, I suck at the science. I find it absolutely fascinating, but no matter how hard I try, any understanding beyond fact-spouting always just beyond my grasp.
***** Yes you do. It is a pretty well documented effect and it is mostly seen by people who listen to classic and metal music but can also be observed in other genres. It seems that it mainly has to do with the complexity of the music.
GrammarGirl Indeed, the myth only ever got as far as the handful of the university. The scientific community has debunked it several times. It seems the idea was simply too popular among regular people to let go of it, like the idea that only 10% of the brain is used.
(Micro-)Paleontologist here! Thank you for that episode. It happens a lot to me that people mix that up. To be honest I even get mad when I get asked about dinosaurs.
Whenever a friend asks me what job I'd like when I leave college I always say Paleobiologist, and I always have. I must admit that it actually does annoy me when people assume it's some kind of archaeology and I have to explain to them that it isn't.
Technically, an anthropologist studies all aspects of humanity - physical (or biological), cultural, and archaeological. The archaeologist has a narrower field, and studies the past by recovering and analyzing artifacts and evidence of material culture. There is a great deal of overlap between the two disciplines.
In North America Archaeology is a one of the four sub-fields of Anthropology: Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Archaeology. They are all studies of different aspects of humans, but Archaeology deals with peoples of the past so the methods used to study them are quite different from the other sub-fields.
But where do you draw the line between the two? Is it palaeontology if you're studying human evolution you'd eventually be digging up modern human remains and the tools they left behind are very important for understanding how far they'd evolved mentally at any given point. wouldn't that mean you'd be both a Palaeontologist and an Archeologist?
BeinDraug No, archaeology is the study of human remains, be they bones, pots or other. Think of it as anthropology with shovels. Paleontology is everything before human material appears in the material record. It's more like botany or zoology with shovels. The "with shovels" examples are obviously gross oversimplifications. But the distinction itself is accurate.
I actually meant to write anthropology, not archaeology. I wholeheartedly agree with the points you made. So, human evolution is a part of anthropology.
I remember reading a book about dinosaurs that mixed archeology and paleontology up when I was a kid, so for the longest time I would say that I wanted to become an archeologist, when I really meant paleontologist.
PEOPLE CONFUSE THE TWO?! I guess I made the assumption that once someone knows the terms "archeology" and "paleontology" that they would have enough sense to distinguish between them. Oh, and Dr. Jones may have been a professor of archeology. But he was actually an antiquarian: an educated mercenary who specializes in fetching high-value artifacts for monied patrons (typically European royalty filling out their museums).
+Jordan Kelley probably north Americans Natives and inhabitants of Polinesia, since we can speak with their descendants and have digged them a lot. But the question has not really a point: you can not compare your understandings of cultures, at least in scientific way :)
DagorDraug Good point, I guess a better wording would be "What's the best preserved prehistoric culture?". Is oral tradition more helpful or less, considering that cultures do change over time? Maybe some mix of artifacts, texts, and descendants could be the most helpful?
+Jordan Kelley Yes, you're correct! But it depends from case to case, oral tradition isn't so much helpful because we study most of the time really ancient guys ;) (imagine Middle Age in Europe): we have to "correct" it a lot. But, in cases like those who I mentioned before, oral tradition is helpful along classics "tools" like artifacts, texts, stratigraphy (and so on) because there is not so much time between who's telling us tradition and those who we're studying. It's always a matter of context ( a word really abused in this field of research).
I could have used this video back when I was studying archaeology. When I told people what I was studying, they would ofte say "If I didn't do what I was doing today, I would have wanted to study archaeology - I think that fossils are really interesting!" And I would go "yeah..."
in 4th grade, we went on an archaeological trip in Lod, in a 5 star hotel from some thousands of years ago (I can't remember) I found a piece of psefas!
I'm studying archaeology at university at the moment, and to be honest, there isnt much to be annoyed about. Many fields of archaeology pass over to palaeontology, like the archaeologists who found the hominid "Lucy" were both archaeologists and palaeontologists. There's even an entire sub-genre of archaeology called zoo-archaeology which almost exclusively looks at animals. I think the issue here is that in America, I live in Britain, the subject of archaeology is underneath that of anthropology, the study of humans in general. In Britain, archaeology is seen as its entirely own subject; which is where, I think, this notion that archaeologists hate being called palaeontologists comes from, even though their methods are almost identical, save for the time frame.
When I was 7 I went to the Mammoth Site in SD and corrected the guide when he referred to the "archaeologists" who dug up the fossils. One of my proudest moments :)
Archaeologists dont study fossils, they only study remains of man-made artifacts
Can't say I'm constantly running into archaeologists at parties.
You're not going to the right parties.
***** Geologists rock.
SciShow Pun intended?
Does someone know how much money paleontologists make
@@godofchickens6808 depending on your success probably 30 - 40 a year
Thank you Hank! I can't believe you made this video, it made my day. I am a consultant archaeologist and the two questions I get most often are "so you find dinosaur bones right?" and "have you worked in Egypt?". Obviously not for both, I live and work in Canada.
Also! Where I work now, "prehistoric" is known as "precontact" and "historic" is known as "postcontact". We stay away from terms like prehistoric because it gives the impression that before Europeans came to North America there was no history (which is not true at all). So if you want to impress us even more that those cocktail parties, ask if we do "precontact" or "postcontact" archaeology ;)
LaurenAnyone Was there recorded history before contact? If so, wouldn't "prehistoric" and "precontact" denote different things?
LaurenAnyone So can we call archaeologists paleontologists instead as a blanket term for people who dig into the past?
DysnomiaFilms Recorded in writing? No. But oral histories are important and we take them seriously. Depends on where you are I guess. In some places there may be a difference between them (South American archaeology?) Over here they're synonymous, just a slight update in required terminology for reports :)
I. M'Notreal Unfortunately NO, because the term is already taken for those who study ancient ANIMALS. (The word palaeontology literally means 'the study of ancient beings'... on (ontos) is the present participle of einai (to be), while palaion and arkhaion both mean ancient.)
Correctrix You're right about Egypt etc. Archaeological terms change significantly around the world. I was describing what we use in my province. I'm sorry I was ambiguous about that (I wrote that comment waaaay too late last night haha). It's a term that works best for the people and time frame we work with here, definitely not a global thing. Use "prehistoric" all you want.
When I was 4 I decided I wanted to be an archeologist. At five I learned that it was a paleontologist I really wanted to be as I was crazy into dinosaurs and their bones. My parents were awesome enough to buy me a huge kit with heaps of Dino skeletons to put together and take apart. I didn't become a paleontologist, but I do still love studying on the side. Thanks for the vid :)
This is a great episode!
If you ever consider another episode of "know your scientists", you might consider writing about the difference between a "psychiatrist" and a "psychologist". People get that mixed up all the time!
how long does somebody have to be dead before grave robbing becomes archaeology?
demonoid47 100 years.
Archaeologists aren't grave robbers. That would imply theft of material culture, which doesn't happen under the supervision of actual accredited archaeologists.
***** WOOSH.
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Fuck off, I'm tired of my field being slandered, jokingly or otherwise.
***** You must be fun at parties.
in other words
Archaeology = The folks on Time Team (other than Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Blackadder) who's the host)
Paleontology = Ross Geller from Friends
Nice
I find the way Hank emphasizes with his hands fascinating. I would have absolutely no idea what to do with my hands, but he seems to be moving them around and expressing with them quite naturally. Do you think he's always been good at it, that he practices, or that is it just something he's gotten used to from years of vloging?
some people talk with their hands. (I'm one of them..)
Gesturing with your hands is something that you sort of pick up from those around you and develop on your own. Awkwardness usually comes with discomfort. As an example, someone who gestures with their hands regularly in a casual discussion with their friends may get fidgety and confused when giving a presentation.
I've never vlogged in my life but people always tell me that i use my hands a lot when i talk but it's so natural for me i don' t even realise. I think it's a cultural thing more than anything. I know that italians are famous for their wild hand gestures when talking
seigeengine Being someone who gestures almost everything, I don't get fidgety or confused in presentation. Actually, I do as I would in any conversation, and in a presentation I have things to point at and interact with. It feels much more natural than gesturing in a regular convo.
BJ Vynz "Hi, I'm a freak. Let me tell you how you're wrong about the general case."
But Hank... what about Nazi Dinosaurs?
Dino D-Day, anyone?
Rainbow Yoshi What do you think the "D" stands for?
***** dick
Noble Sublett and worse of all what about... Dinosaurs NaziZombies??
Eric Saúl On the moon?!
Yes , but what about Paleoarchaelogists?
Mark Callaghan And lest we forget, the archaeopalaeontologists.(archaeopalaeogastroenterologists?)
Mark Callaghan They are the ones who study the houses and tools of the ancient dinosaur civilization!
That's the study of the flinstones...
+Scott Dann
LOL! :D
the study of ancient hominid species and their material remains
"More often than not, leave them where they found them" ....but the first rule of Archaeology should always be "IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM"
Not anymore it shouldn't. Museums have come under fire in recent decades over rights to materials acquired in unsavory ways. There's a real clusterfuck around the Elgin Marbles, for example.
***** But what could possibly be unsavory about stealing an idol important to a tribal culture to be put on display in a land they've never heard of? I mean, they wouldn't have put all those traps around it if they hadn't wanted me to find a way through all of them to take away an important part of their culture.
Bodglin o'Ite I'd think that would depend on size and controversy; you're not going to go dig up the Acropolis and ship it to a museum.
Not with that attitude you aren't
It should certainly be in the country where the find occurred!
When I was small I wanted to be like Indiana Jones and study dinosaurs
Dantick09 Ha, nice troll. Dr. Jones was an Archaeologist and did not study dinosaurs. From what I can tell from the movies mostly he studied religion artifacts.
Ha...no
***** Not a troll. Obviously he's making a joke.
bloop1100 not a funny one
+Dantick09 I wanted to be Dr Alan Grant and fight nazis.
This was really interesting! I'd love to see 'Know Your Scientists' episodes about all the very different fields within Biology, Chemistry and Physics too
I work as a museum tour guide and I would love to make this compulsory viewing before anyone asks any questions!
Thanks Hank and SciShow
Sad thing about Archeology. There just isn't enough money or space to preserve all the things they find, so a lot of stuff just ends up getting destroyed. I mean, there is only so much space for ancient bowls and the like.
Actually, i believe they just sell some of it. Especially the terra-cotta warrior figurines from Chinese tombs, there are millions in there.
what's sad is many places only get discovered when they are building something that could destroy the landscape, like a man made lake. that happened where I live. archaeologists were working against the clock to get as much information as possible from mounds and other such things before the water rose too much. I'm pretty sure a lot of stuff got destroyed or just buried when the lake filled in
Thank you so much for this video! I've been exploring different careers to take after getting my history degree, and since I started working in natural history museums I wondered what the differences was between these two fields, as well as the difference between history and anthropology (apparently archeology is a part of anthropology). Thanks for this clear and informative video. Loving Scishow more and more!
"Just, for the love of _peat_, do not mention dinosaurs."
_...Get it?_ Because peat is good at preserving artefacts and remains? I'll escort myself out.
Not dinosaurs though ... so, yes, please do *laughsafreakinglot*
Hi Scishow! If you're going to turn this into a series (which you totally should) would you consider doing an episode on the difference between a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist? It's a very common mistake, and an easy one to rectify. Also! Maybe explain some of the different types of Psychologists (clinical versus research, social, developmental, etc). Not everything we do is about psychoanalysis.
Love the show!!
Is there anyway you could do a video explaining that smell is not a part of taste? I'm anosmic (unable to smell) and am getting tired of having to explain that I have 0 issues tasting food.
nja122890 Well, smell and taste are basically the same thing in most animals, as far as the brain is concerned. Human beings have a much more developed sense of taste then most animals, and because of that, our sense of taste has separate more from our sense of smell. While it is perfectly normal to not be able to smell, and taste just fine (at least in humans), food does taste significantly different without a sense of smell, because they are still deeply connected senses.
What? Um most of taste is smell
Master Chef No. Taste is sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. Anything else goes in the smell category.
Art Murder The senses of taste and smell are often activated together due to their being chemoreceptors sharing the pharyngeal cavity, but at the level of the brain, smell and taste are completely separate entities. Smell is processed in the forebrain while taste is processed in the caudal brainstem.
Where you (and most people) err is that you equate the flavour of food with its taste. Taste comes only from the taste buds. Flavour, on the other hand, is what you get when you combine the gustatory information with information from the olfactory receptors and the trigeminal receptors of the oronasopharyngeal mucosa. For most people, the difference is pedantry, but for someone who has to field the misconception constantly, it's anything but.
Master Chef NONE of taste is smell. Look to my response for Art Murder.
Also never ever under any circumstances use the "G" word.
Gold.
***** is Au or element 79 better?
Huntracony
Probably, although the point is "don't mention that there might be gold so nobody loots your site and fucks up your context."
all the archaeologists ive dated been gold diggers smh
squigoo Probably factually correct but irrelevant as you've never dated an archaeologist. That's my guess.
As an Archaeology student, thank you for making this episode!
As an archaeologist this video made me happy the amount of people I have heard that question from is unreal!
When I was going up I wanted to be a paleontologist. I not involved with paleontology now but I still like to keep myself up to date with new discoveries. Still find it exciting.
As a pre historic archaeology student myself, I get asked all the time about dinosaurs at parties and family gatherings, it's rather annoying
Maybe you shouldn't study something so useless then? It's like majoring in English. Only for stupid plebs.
Nah, I would argue but I don't want to feed the troll
( ͡° ͜c ͡° ) Obvious troll is painstakingly obvious.
I've got a master in Science-based Archaeology and a minor in Meso-American Archaeology. Explaining what's what is always fun at parties.
Also as soon as an ammonite fossil is dug up, decorated and buried for a few hundred years it becomes both Paleontology and Archaeology..... sort of....
Khuratokh I've sort of some science based archaeology, since in my area of archaeology you sometimes deal with bodies, we have been taught some forensic archaeology
Whoa...my earphones were poorly connected and I heard a sort of unmixed version of the intro theme, and it was awesome! And thanks for clearing up what paleontology is, I always get confused when names like 'paleo' diet come up.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought the vases were asses.
I think our brains may be warped, but sadly no, you're not alone.
No, no you are not.
I checked the comments right after i saw that
I, too, upon seeing the thumbnail, for a split second, wondered if this was about the science of bikini contests.
just went to the comments to make sure i wassent the only one.
Speaking as a paleontologist: THANK YOU! I've had no shortage of problems arising from the fact that people simply do not understand this concept. In fact, many regulations governing paleontological resources (lawyer-speak for "fossils") are either based on or a part of archaeological legislation. Which leads to fun situations where the laws intended to protect the scientific integrity of fossils actually work against protecting the scientific integrity of fossils.
That said, body farms and archaeological work are two of the best sources for taphonomic information (ie, info on how organisms decay). "Archaeology of Human Remains" sits right alongside my books on vertebrate paleontology, because it's the best book I've found for how large vertebrates fall apart and decay through time.
And then there are fun things like mammoth ribs with bone spear points in them. Is it archaeological, or paleontological? Always a fun question to ask a group of achaeo/paleo folks in a bar! :D
I came here expecting to have to correct you about something. BUT YOU DID SO GOOD!!! this is like a perfect video for an archaeologist. thank you!! I'm just gonna link this to people when they ask me
I.. how would someone not know the difference? My grandma was into archeology, used to dig next to a river looking for arrowheads and boiling stones when I was little and before. So I grew up knowing the difference.
Thank you! YES! As a past archaeologist, this is/was my biggest pet peeve! I am always dumbfounded by the number of people who don't know the difference.
As a medical lab technologist, I get annoyed when people think I'm a lab assistant who collects blood. Or they think I'm a nurse cause I work in a hospital! Rant over...
Thank you, Hank. I deal with this as an anthropology/archaeology undergrad student on a regular basis.
Einstain's theory and time paradox question: We know that if some object is in motion, the time for it goes by slower. Let's consider following situation: two trains are going in an opposite direction. There is a clock in each train. From Train 1 perspective, the other train is in motion, so the time goes by slower for it, but you could say the same about Train 2 - from its perspective, the Train 1 is in motion, so it's actualy the Train 1, where the time goes by slower. Reassuming - each train sees the other train as if the time goes by slower for that other train. Question is - if we compare clocks from both trains, what will they show? If they'd show the same time, then why is there even the "Twin paradox"? If they'd show different time, then what would the difference be?
No care with what name have the kind of archaeology done,but your meaning for us.Find the past of humans and your relationships,that's it.The archaeology have been very important to find answers for many questions about us,how was religion,trade,war,marry and several others.
Really recommend this video!! Great watch!,
I didn't know that some people confused archaeology and palaeontology. Learned something new today...
LOVE this!! "How do you make an archaeologist really mad, really fast? Ask her if she’s found any dinosaurs"
I work in a museum and I have to FIGHT THE URGE to correct people whenever they make this mistake! It's common but as someone who's volunteered in both fields and who constantly runs into that mistake, it really wears you down. My favorite thing is when people (mostly kids) know the difference better than their parents.
How do people confuse these two that easily
Know this since I was 5, mainly because my dream job was to be a palaeontologist
What he said.
+wee evilswine I was the only 6 year old I knew that could spell paleontology.
I recall having once read that many archeologists in past war time were used as spies. Because, they were often not restricted in what they could do or where they could go based on nationality or particular affiliations (like soldiers or civilians might be), and had little attention on them while war was raging around them (they aren't expected to be doing anything more then concerning themselves with the past as apposed to current events).
QQ: What is "Grey" Light?
Is it a Mixture of No light, and all light? Since *Correct me if I'm wrong* I don't see grey anywhere on the Spectrum list.
I imagine grey would be low intensity white light.
Gray light doesn't exist.
White light is red, green and blue light all equally strong to the human eye at once.
Gray is the same thing, but under conditions where there is a stronger source of light too, making the white light seem dimmer, and thus gray. However, an actual light source will never appear gray.
HaloWolf HD Grey is not a color, it's how our eyes and brain works. Our eyes are built to notice a few main things, I'll focus two of them:1. Contrast of colors, you can see, for example in my picture, that the color moves from blue, to green, too yellow, to orange etc. You don't mash those colors together when there is a contrast, you can define a line that says, here it ends and here the next color starts.
2. The important one to explain gray: Contrast in "strength" light. Basicly how 'dense' is the flow of light that enters your retna. The rods (or cones, always mix them up) in the back of your eye detect light that's in the range of a human vision. And if there is alot of light hitting it in a certain moment it will tell that to the brain. So, when the brain proccess this data, it makes the image so some colors will look less "bright".
When you detect a White color (Which is basicly all, or at least most of the colors we can see), But that white light is less bright than what the rods consider as strong. Then the image will be more gray.
And btw, white is not on the spectrum as well.
Grey is a shade. That is, to say it very plainly, it's the amount of light, not the light's colour, or anything else. What we think of when we think of grey would be white light, but any colour at low "quantity" appears greyish.
HaloWolf HD It's light black. Or dark white.
I'm studying Palaeolithic Archaeology which is the study of early humans remains 'bones', artefacts and biofacts from 10,000 BCE to 1.5 million years ago . It also includes the study of human evolution * such as "Neanderthal" bones and etc. I do also study the animals that were around humans like Mammoths.
if i am not wrong i have dove that specific shipwreck like a thousand times i might even dive it today! it is found in a little town in Mexico, between Cancun and Playa del carmen, the town is Puerto morelos, the shipwreck is called Juan Escutia or the C-56, beautiful dive.
I am a Historian, yet I love it when people either compare me with archaeology and paleontology.
As a paleontologist i appreciate this video.
I know a couple of paleobotanists and ichnologists who'd be just as mad for being those being called sub-fields of paleontology though :D
Basically you could divide paleo into micro and macro, the latter into vertebrate and invertebrate and from there go into the different groups of animals and one celled organisms.
Being an archeologist is one of my careers and I found this very interesting because I love science and history
My word! I'll keep this in mind at my Archeologist and Paleontologists Only Party next week.
My mom studied to be a classical archeologist, and my dad is a photographer who records archeological finds.
He has a collegue who is an expert in pollen... but he works at the archeological service. Does that make him an archeologist or a paleontologist?
Archaeologist, the specific study of pollen and other plants is archaeobotany :)
Jayne Robinson but there's also paleobotany ... and paleontology is all about ancient life, while archaeology is about ancient "history" ... but, meh
***** If he studies the pollen in order to understand the relation of specific plants and the people who used and worked with them, then he's probably an archeobotanist. Why don't you ask your mom D:?
fjoa123
He studies the pollen they find at archeological sites, to see what kind of plants were around at that time.
So his work is archeological in nature, but the science itself is more paleontology I think.
It's just a grey area is all.
***** If a physicist pays a photographer to photograph the Large Hadron Collider, that does *not* make the photographer a physicist.
All my life I've been taught that archaeologists dig up the fossils and the paleontologists examine the fossils 😂
Thats a mistake many people say, Paleontologists both dig and examine the fossils, Archaeologists *DO NOT* study fossils at all, they only study man-made things from a long time ago
"reptiles as large as giraffes" sounds like dinosaurs to me
Dan Negura He said flying reptiles. No flying reptiles were dinosaurs. Being big and reptilian during the cretaceous does not automatically make something a dinosaur.
***** Oh man, you know how ridiculous you sound don't you?
Dan Negura It's ridiculous to be correct? Also, you +1'd your own comment. That's ridiculous.
As an archaeologist, i'm glad someone's clearing this up for people! I get tired of explaining it lol.
Both have geological elements, and one could argue that they both have anthropological elements too. Science needs a massive venn diagram, as many fields overlap in some way yet are still distinct. Understanding that compare and contrast, connections and separations is one of the keys to intelligence.
I liked this video, never knew the difference between the two! Thanks SciShow!
two years ago i did see a tremendously large collection of fossilized insects, with a focus on fossilized bees. they had hundreds of bee fossils of varying age. i have also seen the majority of archaeopterix fossils, the original ones. one time when there were only 4 known archaeopterix fossils on the planet, i managed to see all 4. there are some truly amazing fossils on the market.
As an archaeology student, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
As an Anthropology major (cultural), I get "Oh finding fossils must be so fun!" and the like quite often. Archeology is one of four subfields of Anthropology. I know it's confusing, yet it would still be nice if people would know the difference.
As a student of archaeology thank you for doing this video
How are Bruces form when hurt by something? Thanks.
I am so glad you made this video... I studied archaeology in university and you would not believe how many people asked me about dinosaurs... :)
Archaeologists Never studies dinosaurs, not even any kind of fossils
Thank you for posting this! I too have gotten the dinosaur question way too many times. Also, people like to ask how much gold I've found and I like to use the Indiana Jones movies as a teachable moment.
How long does it have to be before it’s archaeology and not grave robbing
YES, thank you thank you thank you. Best regards a study group currently studying for our archaeology exam. because what else would we do during our break? :)
Moms are the world's best archaeologists; they can find whatever their children hides/throws away.
Sounds to me that the audio was off by a small amount.
"Most were real"
"Most are extinct"
Should add:
"We are fortunate that most are extinct"
So how long does someone have to be dead before graverobbing becomes archaeology?
What's the difference between Archeology and Anthropology?
Anthropology deals with cultures in the present and never dig, from what I understand.
"For the love of peat"
Was that one intentional? ;)
I love it either way
Hank how does braces move your teeth forward instead of pulling them together
So... When does palaeontology end and when does prehistoric archaeology begin?
Thank you so much for this video I always hear people mix these two fields up.
I love the new intro! ...actually it might not be new but it is to me:)
so, what's anthropology? my sister is majoring in it and partly in archeology.
It's similar to archaeology in that it studies human history, but it encompasses more than just artifacts and structures.
Juli Pritchett Anthropology is the study of humans, including the humans alive today.
There are then more specific branches such as biological anthropology and cultural anthropology, but they focus on modern humans just as much as those of the past.
Juli Pritchett Archaeology is a kind of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of humans, but usually when someone just says "anthropology" they mean cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologists study other cultures of living people.
mickycarcar This's correct,archaeology is part of anthropology.While archaeology studies the people in the pass and your interaction with the enviroment and others the anthropology studies the people in the present.
this is late, but I wanted to comment. anthropology is a broad subject with many sub-disciplines. three main categories are biological anthropology, cultural and archaeology. I find the cultural side boring and the other two more interesting, mainly because I wanted to be a forensic anthropologist
Can you do one of these on the difference between psychologists and sociologists? We also get mistaken for each other at parties. :)
What happens to your finger when you jam it?
I had my heart set on being an archaeologist until I was about fifteen, when I realized that, although I'm very, very good at learning history, I suck at the science. I find it absolutely fascinating, but no matter how hard I try, any understanding beyond fact-spouting always just beyond my grasp.
Question : Why is second-hand smoke more harmful than firsthand smoke?
***** Because it doesn't go through the filter.
Do the science of music and intelligence, the Mozart effect, is it true?
***** Yes you do. It is a pretty well documented effect and it is mostly seen by people who listen to classic and metal music but can also be observed in other genres. It seems that it mainly has to do with the complexity of the music.
The Amazing Apple That would make an interesting episode.
The Amazing Apple That myth has been debunked...I listen to classical music and I'm not a genius....
GrammarGirl Indeed, the myth only ever got as far as the handful of the university. The scientific community has debunked it several times. It seems the idea was simply too popular among regular people to let go of it, like the idea that only 10% of the brain is used.
BJ Vynz It's honestly impossible to put into to words how much I agree with your statement.
(Micro-)Paleontologist here! Thank you for that episode. It happens a lot to me that people mix that up. To be honest I even get mad when I get asked about dinosaurs.
why do they leave the stuff there? is it not worth somethig for traders? also do they get paid or do they sell their findings and live by that?
Can you guys make a video explaining therories used in interstellar( all of them)
Whenever a friend asks me what job I'd like when I leave college I always say Paleobiologist, and I always have. I must admit that it actually does annoy me when people assume it's some kind of archaeology and I have to explain to them that it isn't.
"I'm a time traveler, I point and laugh at archaeologists."
What happened to subabble?
Whats the difference between Archaeology and Anthropology?
Technically, an anthropologist studies all aspects of humanity - physical (or biological), cultural, and archaeological. The archaeologist has a narrower field, and studies the past by recovering and analyzing artifacts and evidence of material culture. There is a great deal of overlap between the two disciplines.
Mr Barwick
They're actually often part of the same faculty in North America. They're basically the same in terms of the goals, if not the techniques.
In North America Archaeology is a one of the four sub-fields of Anthropology: Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Archaeology. They are all studies of different aspects of humans, but Archaeology deals with peoples of the past so the methods used to study them are quite different from the other sub-fields.
Hoichi has it right. Archaeology is a sub field of anthro.
But where do you draw the line between the two? Is it palaeontology if you're studying human evolution you'd eventually be digging up modern human remains and the tools they left behind are very important for understanding how far they'd evolved mentally at any given point. wouldn't that mean you'd be both a Palaeontologist and an Archeologist?
Angel Samael Studying human evolution is a part of archaeology, not paleontology. Paleontology focuses on non-human evolution.
Archeology is if you are digging up stuff like pots and ruins. Palentology is if you are digging up once living things like fossils and bones
BeinDraug
No, archaeology is the study of human remains, be they bones, pots or other. Think of it as anthropology with shovels. Paleontology is everything before human material appears in the material record. It's more like botany or zoology with shovels.
The "with shovels" examples are obviously gross oversimplifications. But the distinction itself is accurate.
I actually meant to write anthropology, not archaeology. I wholeheartedly agree with the points you made. So, human evolution is a part of anthropology.
Why is the chemical name for Titin so long?
I remember reading a book about dinosaurs that mixed archeology and paleontology up when I was a kid, so for the longest time I would say that I wanted to become an archeologist, when I really meant paleontologist.
PEOPLE CONFUSE THE TWO?!
I guess I made the assumption that once someone knows the terms "archeology" and "paleontology" that they would have enough sense to distinguish between them.
Oh, and Dr. Jones may have been a professor of archeology. But he was actually an antiquarian: an educated mercenary who specializes in fetching high-value artifacts for monied patrons (typically European royalty filling out their museums).
This basically summed up my Introduction to Archaeology class in my first year of university. :P
can i use an analogy like "Indiana Jones vs Jurassic Park"?
What's the most well understood prehistoric culture/group? I'd be really interested to know!
+Jordan Kelley probably north Americans Natives and inhabitants of Polinesia, since we can speak with their descendants and have digged them a lot. But the question has not really a point: you can not compare your understandings of cultures, at least in scientific way :)
DagorDraug Good point, I guess a better wording would be "What's the best preserved prehistoric culture?". Is oral tradition more helpful or less, considering that cultures do change over time? Maybe some mix of artifacts, texts, and descendants could be the most helpful?
+Jordan Kelley Yes, you're correct! But it depends from case to case, oral tradition isn't so much helpful because we study most of the time really ancient guys ;) (imagine Middle Age in Europe): we have to "correct" it a lot. But, in cases like those who I mentioned before, oral tradition is helpful along classics "tools" like artifacts, texts, stratigraphy (and so on) because there is not so much time between who's telling us tradition and those who we're studying. It's always a matter of context ( a word really abused in this field of research).
I could have used this video back when I was studying archaeology. When I told people what I was studying, they would ofte say "If I didn't do what I was doing today, I would have wanted to study archaeology - I think that fossils are really interesting!" And I would go "yeah..."
whats the difference between Archaeology and Anthropology?
Kevin Siegel Anthropology is the study of humans. Archaeology looks at past human _activity_.
in 4th grade, we went on an archaeological trip in Lod, in a 5 star hotel from some thousands of years ago (I can't remember) I found a piece of psefas!
do a video on interstellar how scientific is it? just like scishow did gravity.
Its kind of like the Austria/Australia thing
fjoa123 No it's more like the Australia/New Zealand thing. You have to either very stupid, or very high to confuse the two.
'They Might Be Giants' has a funner explanation of what a Paleontologist is.
I'm studying archaeology at university at the moment, and to be honest, there isnt much to be annoyed about.
Many fields of archaeology pass over to palaeontology, like the archaeologists who found the hominid "Lucy" were both archaeologists and palaeontologists. There's even an entire sub-genre of archaeology called zoo-archaeology which almost exclusively looks at animals. I think the issue here is that in America, I live in Britain, the subject of archaeology is underneath that of anthropology, the study of humans in general. In Britain, archaeology is seen as its entirely own subject; which is where, I think, this notion that archaeologists hate being called palaeontologists comes from, even though their methods are almost identical, save for the time frame.
Please make more know your scientists videos!