Prehistoric Cultures

• Exam #1 postponed until next Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Use a #2 pencil (not ink)

 

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• Question / Answer session for Exam #1
  
  
  • If you want to take an essay exam you must notify troufs by New Deadline: Friday, 12 October 2007
    
    
    • sample optonal essay exam questions
      
      
      
      
  • Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

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  • Review the materials
    
    
    • Review: Recommendations on how to study slides
      
      
    • in your text
      
      
    • in your class notes
      
      
    • on the video viewing guides--DAY
      
      
    • 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)
        
        

         

• 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)




• Major Characteristics of Modern Physical Anthropology (introduction, time permitting)
  
  

  	Week CEE	Day		Slides
  	04	08		Genetics, Primatology, Physical Anthropology      Characteristics #1 - #6 (slides 07A)
  	04 or 07	08 or 13		Culture and Human Breeding Patterns      Characteristic #7 (slides 07B)
  				Population Studies      Characteristic #8 (slides 07C)
  				Biocultural Evolution and Sociobiology      Characteristics #9 - #10 (slides 08)

PCforum: Topic 6 -- Bigfoot or Big Story?

On Monday, 15 October 2007,
Bigfoot researcher Robert Olson of Deer River
gave a presentation on the existence of Bigfoot in Northeastern Minnesota,
at noon,
at Lady Ocalat's Emporium,
31 West Superior Street,
Suite 304,
in Duluth, MN.

"Within the last two years, there have been about 20 documented sightings [of Bigfoot] across Northeastern Minnesota..." -- Robert Olson of Deer River, MN
(Duluth News Tribune, Saturday, 13 October 2007, p. B1).

"'We’ve had actual sightings near Bovey, Nett Lake and around here,' said Donald Sherman, a facilities manager at Cass Lake Hospital and a member of the Leech Lake Ojibwe band"

"Sherman believes 300 to 400 — perhaps even 500 — Bigfoot exist in Minnesota."
(Duluth News Tribune, Saturday, 13 October 2007, p. B2).

Robert Olson of Deer River holds a plaster casting that he made from what he says are footprints of Bigfoot beings in Northeastern Minnesota.
Saturday, 13 October 2007 -- Duluth News Tribune

Last June people were looking for Bigfoot in northern Michigan:
Team Heads to Michigan to Search for Bigfoot (27 June 2007) -- FOX News

A year ago February they were looking in Malaysia...
Hunting for Malaysia's 'Bigfoot' (28 February 2006) -- BBCNews

And before that in China...
'Bigfoot' spotted in China (30 June 2003) -- BBCNews

And elsewhere...
In search of Bigfoot (28 July 2005) -- BBCNews

Many think Bigfoot is actually a prehistoric primate known as
Gigantopithecus,
"The Giant Ape"

 

Read (1) the Duluth News Tribune article from 13 October 2007
on Bigfoot in Northern Minnesota.

(That article can be found at http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcbigft.DNT.2007.10.13.html#title)

Then read at least (2) two other articles on bigfoot from the class Bigfoot page

(at http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcbigft.html#title)

and (3) the short Wikipedia article on Gigantopithecus

(at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus)

Questions:

1. Do you believe Bigfoot, or a creature like Bigfoot (Sasquatch, Yeti...) exists?

2. Why? Or, why not?

 

Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film