Prehistoric Cultures

Announcements

• TR's Text-messaging is temporarly out of order. (The cell phone was run over with the car, or possibly a light truck.)
  
  
  
• Due to the funeral of my brother the first DAY exam which was originally scheduled for Day 12, Thursday, 11 October 2007, has been postponed until Day 13, Tuesday, 16 October 2007

• UMD Study Strategies
  
  
  • test taking strategies
  • learning styles
  • study strategies
  • listening skills
  • notetaking
  • special facilities / arrangements

• extra help with exams
  
  
• Extra Credit Options are available

Topic 5 -- Exam I

For Topic 5, have a look at the Exam I information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html>

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

• in your text
  
  
• in your class notes
  
  
• on the video viewing guides--DAY
  or on the video viewing guides--CEE
  
  
• and on the handouts
  
  
  • Times to Remember
  • Anthropology and Its Parts
  • Major Characteristics of Anthropology
  • The Development of Prehistoric Cultures: History of Thought and the Emergence of Key Concepts
  • Summary of Conceptual Changes 19th to 20th Century (slides 06B)
  • Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (.pdf)
    
    

 

Then post some meaningful questions, or discussion of questions, on the PCforum

SPECIAL NOTE: Every question so far has been essentially the same, viz., something like "What's the difference between the essay exam and the multiple-choice exam, and what do I recommend."

Please try to ask a question about--or make an observation that deals with--another subject than that.


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Useful Information:

• UMD Study Strategies
• test taking strategies
• learning styles
• listening skills
• notetaking
• special facilities / arrangements
  
  
• Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 01 - 06
• basic information about the text
• Resources from the Publisher
  
  
• Sample Multiple-Choice Exam Questions
• Sample Essay Exam Questions (optional)
  
  
• extra help with exams

Features of the Day

• nlt 2:47 videotape: Among the Wild Chimpanzees
  (58 min., 1984, VC 806)
  • Jane Goodall WebPage

• Questions about Case Study results?
  
  
  • WebDrop Folders <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
  • eGradebook <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook>
  • grading
    • criteria for grading written works
    • "The Strike Zone"
      • "Coach: Aguirre deserved bronze medal"
        (Tuesday, February 14, 2006)
      • Aguirre: " . . .The judges do the best they can. I have to respect them and keep training"
    • "The Curve" 
  • UMD Grading Policies
  • Note: if you turned in your Case Study after the deadline it may take several days for you to get your exam back
    
    
    
• Old Business
  
  
  
• Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (class handout, time permitting)
  
  

  	Week / CEE	Day / DAY		Slides
  				Contemporary Non-Human Primates--summary of Major Discoveries   ~ And “A Monkey Named Hellion,” 60 Minutes, 24 July 2002 (12 min.)
  	05	08		Introduction to Primates (slides 12A)
  	05	08 / 09			Prosimians -- "Pre-Monkeys" (slides 12B)
  	05	10			Monkeys (slides 12C)
  	06	11			Apes (slides 12D)
  				Anthropoids, Hominoids, and Hominids (slides 13A)
  				Early Apes: Oligocene Anthropoids (slides 13B)
  				Early Apes: Miocene Hominoids (slides 13C)
  				A Closer Look at the Great Apes (slides 14)
  				Bipedalism: Legs / Feet and Pelvis (slides 15A)
  				The Upper Body (slides 15B)
  				The Skull (slides 16A)
  					Brains (slides 16B)
  					Teeth / Jaw (slides 16C)
  				Other Changes (slides 16D)
  				Review (slides)

Old Business

• The Development of Prehistoric Cultures: History of Thought and the Emergence of Key Concepts (cont.) [(slides 05) Wallace]
  
  

  	Week CEE	Day		Slides
  	02	04 / 06		Lucretius to Perthes (slides 04)      Acheulian Tool
  		06 / 07		Darwin and Wallace (slides 05)
  		07 / 08		Mendel (slides 06A)
  				Other Early Studies and Events

Assignments

Notes

• Ended Thursday 27 September 2007 with finishing presentation of genotype/phenotype from Darwin and Wallace (slides 05) with just a mention of Wallace

Announcements

• Tom Roufs RIP 4 October 2007
  
  
• "Coach: Aguirre deserved bronze medal"
  
  
  
• REM: Due to the funeral of my brother the first DAY exam which was originally scheduled for Day 12, Thursday, 11 October 2007, has been postponed until Day 13, Tuesday, 16 October 2007

• UMD Study Strategies
  
  
  • test taking strategies
  • learning styles
  • study strategies
  • listening skills
  • notetaking
  • special facilities / arrangements

• extra help with exams
  
  
• Extra Credit Options are available

Topic 5 -- Exam I

For Topic 5, have a look at the Exam I information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html>

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

• in your text
  
  
• in your class notes
  
  
• on the video viewing guides--DAY
  or on the video viewing guides--CEE
  
  
• and on the handouts
  
  
  • Times to Remember
  • Anthropology and Its Parts
  • Major Characteristics of Anthropology
  • The Development of Prehistoric Cultures: History of Thought and the Emergence of Key Concepts
  • Summary of Conceptual Changes 19th to 20th Century (slides 06B)
  • Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (.pdf)

 

Then post some meaningful questions, or discussion of questions, on the PCforum

SPECIAL NOTE: Every question so far has been essentially the same, viz., something like "What's the difference between the essay exam and the multiple-choice exam, and what do I recommend."

Please try to ask a question about--or make an observation that deals with--another subject than that.


---

Useful Information:

• UMD Study Strategies
• test taking strategies
• learning styles
• listening skills
• notetaking
• special facilities / arrangements
  
  
• Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 01 - 06
• basic information about the text
• Resources from the Publisher
  
  
• Sample Multiple-Choice Exam Questions
• Sample Essay Exam Questions (optional)
  
  
• extra help with exams

Features of the Day

• nlt 02:49 video The Last Great Ape
  (56 min., 2007, CC, DVD 1150)

• Old Business
  
  
  
• Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (class handout -- continued)
  
  

  	Week / CEE	Day / DAY		Slides
  				Contemporary Non-Human Primates--summary of Major Discoveries   ~ And “A Monkey Named Hellion,” 60 Minutes, 24 July 2002 (12 min.)
  	05	08		Introduction to Primates (slides 12A)
  	05	08 / 09			Prosimians -- "Pre-Monkeys" (slides 12B)
  	05	10			Monkeys (slides 12C)
  	06	11			Apes (slides 12D)
  				Anthropoids, Hominoids, and Hominids (slides 13A)
  				Early Apes: Oligocene Anthropoids (slides 13B)
  				Early Apes: Miocene Hominoids (slides 13C)
  				A Closer Look at the Great Apes (slides 14)
  				Bipedalism: Legs / Feet and Pelvis (slides 15A)
  				The Upper Body (slides 15B)
  				The Skull (slides 16A)
  					Brains (slides 16B)
  					Teeth / Jaw (slides 16C)
  				Other Changes (slides 16D)
  				Review (slides)

Old Business

• Review terms/concepts from Tuesday's videotape: Among the Wild Chimpanzees
  (58 min., 1984, VC 806)
  • Jane Goodall WebPage
  
  
  
  
• Do De Vries to end of Mendel set of slides (slides 06A)

Assignments

Notes

• Review terms/concepts from Tuesday's videotape: Among the Wild Chimpanzees
  (58 min., 1984, VC 806)
  • Jane Goodall WebPage
• Do De Vries to end of Mendel set of slides (slides 06A)
• Thursday, 04 October 2007, finished The Development of Prehistoric Cultures: History of Thought and the Emergence of Key Concepts