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African woman from sub-Saaran Africa.
African woman
from sub-Saaran Africa

Inuit woman.
Inuit woman
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Week 03
 Heredity and Evolution:
The National Geographic
Genographic Project

CEE

Read:
 Ch. 3, "Heredity and Evolution" pp. 35-65
Read:
 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
-- "Molecular Applications in Forensic Anthropology," pp. 66-68
Post: PCforum
REM:

text Resources

Dr. Spencer Wells interviewing San.

Map, National Geogrpahic Genographic Project.

 

On expedition in Chad, Spencer Wells explains the Genographic Project to local village leaders. Photograph by David Evans/NGS 2006.

On expedition in Chad, Spencer Wells explains the Genographic Project to local village leaders. Photograph by David Evans/NGS 2006

 

Map, National Geogrpahic Genographic Project.

DNA
 
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Tuesday 18 September 2007

Week 03 Day 05

2:05 Journey of Man
 (120 min., 2003, DVD 742)

Journey of Man video.

 

Announcements

 

PCforum : Topic 2

Whiskey Row in Two Harbors

 

Todd Lindahl uses a screen to check dirt for artifacts while helping to document a possible outhouse site at the Whiskey Row on the Two Harbors waterfront.

Todd Lindahl uses a screen to check dirt for artifacts while helping to document a possible outhouse site at the Whiskey Row on the Two Harbors waterfront Wednesday morning.
(Clint Austin / News Tribune)

Friday, 14 September November 2007 -- Duluth News Tribune

Front page Duluth News Tribune story:

"Trash turns to treasure in dig at Two Harbors' Whiskey Row"

Friday, 14 September 2007

the story on-line

Historical Archaeology
and CRM
(Cultural Resources Management)
 are very important parts of Archaeology

 

Collecting artifacts at Whiskey Row in Two Harbors, MN.Archaeologist at Whiskey Row in Two Harbors, MN.Button from Whiskey Row in Two Harbors, MN.

Historical Archaeology at "Whisky Row" site in Two Harbors Minnesota.
(Clint Austin / News Tribune)


First watch the multimedia program:
"Uncovering Two Harbors' Whiskey Row"
(2:45)

Then answer the questions:

1. Why is the "Whiskey Row" archaeology dig important?

2. Who should finance excavations like that?

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PCforum : Topic 3

Neanderthal Demise

From Sunday's Dulth News Tribune and the Washington Post:

Study points finger at humans for Neanderthal Demise

By Rick Weiss
 Duluth News Tribune (September 16, 2007, p. A8)

Neandertal with spear.

a reprint of
Climate Link To Neanderthal Demise Abates
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post (September 13, 2007)

"Contrary to a popular hypothesis that Neanderthals succumbed to a suddenly colder climate, the new research indicates that southwestern Europe, where our beetle-browed cousins made their last stand, enjoyed relatively mild weather when their last campfires went cold."

"Neanderthals were widespread in Europe for more than 100,000 years but went extinct 26,000 to 32,000 years ago. Some scientists have blamed climate, which was then undergoing wild fluctuations between thousand-year cold spells and warmer periods, separated by as little as a decade or two. A few of those cold spells were extreme, leading some scientists to suggest that one of those mini-ice ages finally did in the climate-stressed Neanderthals."

"Others have placed the blame on the ancestors of modern humans, who emerged from Africa about 40,000 years ago and then spread north and west through Europe."

 

Related news and stories ....

Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals'
(20 February 2007)  Science/Nature

"A sharp freeze could have dealt the killer blow that finished off our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals, according to a new study."

Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge'
(September 13, 2006) Science/Nature

Neandertals' Last Stand Was in Gibraltar, Study Suggests
(September 13, 2006) National Geographic News

The icy truth behind Neanderthals
(February 10, 2005) Science/Nature

Rebuilding the Neanderthal past.
Rebuilding the Neanderthal past
 BBC News
(10 February 2005)

Neandertals, Modern Humans Interbred, Bone Study Suggests
(October 30, 2006) National Geographic News

Gendered Division of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals
(December 04, 2006) EurekAlert

Neanderthal DNA secrets unlocked
(15 November 2006) Science/Nature

Neanderthals 'not close family'
(27 January 2004)  Science/Nature

Neandertals Beaten by Rivals' Word Skills, Study Says
(24 November 2004) National Geographic News

Neanderthals and Humans: Perhaps They Never Met
(08 May 2006) Live Science

Did Starving Neanderthals Eat Each Other?
 (12/4/06) New Scientist

List of Neanderthal Sites -- Wikipedia

 

Read the article reprinted in the Duluth News Tribune from the Washington Post

 

Questions:

1. First of all, look the title of the Duluth News Tribune article, "Study points finger at humans for Neanderthal demise." Question: Are Neanderthals Human?
2. What do you think happend to the Neanderthal? Why?

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Features of the Day

 

Journey of Man video.
 

Old Business

  • next time
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 3, "Heredity and Evolution" pp. 35-65
Read:
 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
-- "Molecular Applications in Forensic Anthropology," pp. 66-68
Post: PCforum
REM:
 

Notes

  • Ended Thursday 13 September 2007 with the very beginning of "The Great Chain of Being," Lucretius to Perthes (slides 04) #27
 
 
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Thursday 20 September 2007

Week 03 Day 06

2:05 Journey of Man (cont.)
 (120 min., 2003, DVD 742)

Journey of Man video.

Announcements

  • REM: Set Folder Selector to Topic number. After this week postings in folder 0 will not receive credit.

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

  • REM: Case Study due next week, the end of Week 04

  • Written questions
 

Features of the Day

 

Journey of Man video.

 
 

Old Business

  • Ended Thursday 13 September 2007 with the very beginning of "The Great Chain of Being," Lucretius to Perthes (slides 04) #27
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 3, "Heredity and Evolution" pp. 35-65
Read:
 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
-- "Molecular Applications in Forensic Anthropology," pp. 66-68
Post: PCforum
REM:
 

Notes

  • Ended Thursday 20 September 2007 with John Friedrich Esper and the very beginning of "Thunderstones", Lucretius to Perthes (slides 04)
 
 
 
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Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884)

Gregor Mendel

 

African woman from sub-Saaran Africa.
African woman
from sub-Saaran Africa

Inuit woman.
Inuit woman

CEE  Week: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CEE Week 03

 Heredity and Evolution:
The National Geographic
Genographic Project

Monday 24 September 2007

05:15 Journey of Man
 (120 min., 2003, DVD 742)

Journey of Man video.

Dr. Spencer Wells interviewing San.

Map, National Geogrpahic Genographic Project.

Read:
 Ch. 3, "Heredity and Evolution" pp. 35-65
Read:
 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
-- "Molecular Applications in Forensic Anthropology," pp. 66-68
Post: PCforum
REM:

Case Study "What's New? Current Trends and New Discoveries" due next week