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Welcome to Anthropology 1602 Prehistoric Cultures.  This will be a great course, and a great experience.  You will see. . . .

Welcome / Welcome Back to UMD and to Anthropology 1601 Prehistoric Cultures.  This will be a great course, and a great experience.  You will see. . . .

I am looking forward to meeting you in person. . . ..  In the meantime, you might want to have a look at the Prehistoric Cultures syllabus, which you can find on the web at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pccal-f2009.html>. 
(You will get a paper copy of this in the first class session, so you can save ink, and money, and other resources, by not printing it out now.)

Right off the bat you might also be interested in the textbook for the course.  Information on the textbook can be found at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctext.html#title>.

 

Understanding Humans: Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 10th ed.

 

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Barry Lewis, Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore

10th Edition

©2010 [2009]

ISBN-10: 0495604747
ISBN-13: 9780495604747

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Finally, laptops are welcome in the classroom.  Many find a laptop quite useful in following the lectures as all lectures are web supported.

Have a great Labor Day weekend. . . .

If you have any questions right now, please do not hesitate to e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu, or stop in before class at Cina 215 [map <http://www.d.umn.edu/~giscalab/images/campus_map.gif>].

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Tim Roufs

6 September 2009

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Understanding Humans: Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 10th ed.

 

"UNDERSTANDING HUMANS: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY shows students how anthropologists and archaeologists go about their work as they study human evolution, living nonhuman primates, human adaptation and variation, the origin and dispersal of modern humans, food production, the first civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, and so much more. 'At a Glance' sections and 'Focus Questions' help students better understand the material and study more effectively for exams."






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Understanding Humans: Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology,
10th ed
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Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing
©2010

Barry Lewis
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Robert Jurmain
Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University

Lynn Kilgore
Colorado State University

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Table of Contents
 
1.   Introduction to Anthropology
     
    HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION
     
2.   The Development of Evolutionary Theory
3.   Heredity and Evolution
4.   Human Variation and Adaptation
5.   Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution
     
    PRIMATES
     
6.   An Overview of the Primates
7.   Primate Behavior
     
    PALEOANTHROPOLOGY/FOSSIL HOMININS
     
8.   Understanding the Past: Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods
9.   Hominin Origins
10.   The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries
11.   Premodern Humans
12.   The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans
     
    ARCHAEOLOGY
     
13.   Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers
14.   Food Production
15.   The First Civilizations
     
    Appendix A: Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy
    Appendix B: Summary of Early Hominin Fossil Finds from Africa
    Appendix C: Population Genetics

 

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  • For this new edition, the authors have improved and updated the book's content, tightened up its coverage of key topics, and made it shorter in the process. A significant change includes the combination of former Chapters 15 and 16 into one Chapter 15, "The First Civilizations," which creates a more balanced treatment of this important cultural development.

  • To ensure that students receive a clear understanding of the development of the earliest human technology and the combined effects of biocultural processes on human evolution, the authors expanded the sections dealing with the archaeology of fossil hominins in Chapters 9 through 12.

  • This edition addresses many of the crucial new discoveries relating to the fossil hominins themselves, including a 3-million-year-old infant skeleton from Ethiopia, as covered in Chapter 9, and Chapter 10's discussion of new evidence regarding the body size of some of the earliest hominins to leave Africa (discovered in the Republic of Georgia) as well as discoveries of 1.2-million-year-old fossils from northern Spain that are the earliest western European hominins yet found.

  • Chapters 11 and 12 address some of the astounding breakthroughs in studies of ancient DNA, derived from miniscule fragments preserved in partially fossilized hominin bones dating as far back as 50,000 years ago.

  • Additional changes to the text include redrawn maps and a substantially expanded and updated photo and artwork program, which make the book more visually appealing and provide a better sense of what physical anthropologists and archaeologists do, and why they enjoy doing it. The focus questions, "At a Glance" boxes, and other learning aids in every chapter have also been updated, in order to help students master more easily the sometimes complex material.

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