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Pelvic bones of Homo sapiens, Australopithecus, and Chimpanzee.

Ossa coxae. (a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Early hominid (Australopithecus) from South Africa.
(c) Chimpanzee.

 

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Week 08

Hominid Origins

(Orrorin / Ardipithecus / Australopithecines / Early Homo)

CEE

Read:
Ch. 10, "The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 233-254
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Hominid footprint from Laetoli, Tanzania 3.7 m.y.a.
Hominid footprint
from Laetoli, Tanzania
3.7 m.y.a.

 
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Week 08 Day 15

Tuesday 27 October 2009

nlt 4:20 The Making of Mankind: One Small Step
(55 min., 1981, VC 398)



 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

nlt 4:20 video

The Making of Mankind: One Small Step
(55 min., 1981, VC 398)

The Making of Mankind, Richard Leakey.


Laetoli footprints, artist's reconstruction.

Laetoli hominids
Tanzania
3.7 m.y.a

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

  1. the actual content of the various finds

  2. archaeological field methods and techniques

  3. laboratory methods and techniques

    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .

  4. archaeological dating techniques

  5. theoretical / interpretative approaches

    • including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks

07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

 

 

Week Early Hominins Slides
  Major Discoveries slides: Prehistoric Primates -- Pre Homo sapiens sapiens
(slides 01B-Primates_Prehistoric_Pre-Hss)
09
Introduction to Early Hominins (slides 17A)
  A Walk Through Hominin Evolution (slides 17B)
  "Putting it all Together" (slides 17C)
  Lucy, The First Family, and Friends (slides 18)
  Australopithecus Hunting and Foraging (slides 19)
   
  Early Homo (Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis) (slides 20)

 

Old Business

 
 

Assignments

Read:
Ch. 10, "The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 233-254
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
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Week 08 Day 16

Thursday 29 October 2009

nlt 4:28 Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots
(47 min., 1997, VC 3641, part 2)



 

Announcements

 
PCforum Topic 5

Is Bigfoot Real?

Can Bigfoot be a Gigantopithecus?

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 the Associate Press carried an article on Bigfoot: "Sasquatch enthusiasts camp out in West Virginia mountains in search of fabled creature"

Mysterious Orang Pendek Apeman Spotted by British Expedition, September 2009
-- Telegraph (30 September 2009)

Bigfoot's Likely Haunts 'Revealed', July 2009
-- New Scientist (06 July 2009)

A former University of Minnesota professor, Grover Krantz, has spent much of his life in search of Bigfoot.

A former University of Minnesota Duluth Geology professor once went Bigfoot hunting in a foreign country under the guise of doing geological research.

Last year a veteran northern Minnesota and Wyoming hunter, and UMD graduate, told Tim Roufs that he encountered one north of Two Harbors.

In 2007 it was claimed that, "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"
(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.

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

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

Before that 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," the last-known prehistoric ape.

Gigantopithecus is featured at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa:

Gigantopithecus.
Gigantopithecus
Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa

Read (1) the most recent Associated Press article on Bigfoot (28 October 2009):
(That article can be found at http://www.startribune.com/nation/66888677.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUX)

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) read 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?

3. Is it possible that Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus?

4. Why? Or, why not?

Patterson-Gimlin photo of Bigfoot.
Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film


PCforum
<http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/PCforum/>

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic

[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 5

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class

 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

ntl 4:28 video:

The Story of Hominid Evolution:
Part 2: "Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots"

(47 min., 1997, VC 3641, pt. 2


Australopithecus robustus

Australopithecus robustus
SK 48

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

  1. the actual content of the various finds

  2. archaeological field methods and techniques

  3. laboratory methods and techniques

    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .

  4. archaeological dating techniques

  5. theoretical / interpretative approaches

    • including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks

07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

 

 

Week Early Hominins Slides
  Major Discoveries slides: Prehistoric Primates -- Pre Homo sapiens sapiens
(slides 01B-Primates_Prehistoric_Pre-Hss)
09
Introduction to Early Hominins (slides 17A)
  A Walk Through Hominin Evolution (slides 17B)
  "Putting it all Together" (slides 17C)
  Lucy, The First Family, and Friends (slides 18)
  Australopithecus Hunting and Foraging (slides 19)
   
  Early Homo (Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis) (slides 20)

 

Old Business

 
 

Assignments

Read:
Ch. 10, "The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 233-254
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
 
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Pelvic bones of Homo sapiens, Australopithecus, and Chimpanzee.

Ossa coxae. (a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Early hominid (Australopithecus) from South Africa.
(c) Chimpanzee.

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

CEE Week 08

Hominid Origins

(Orrorin / Ardipithecus / Australopithecines / Early Homo)

Monday 2 November 2009

1. 6:10 The Making of Mankind: One Small Step
(55 min., 1981, VC 398)

2. 7:38 Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots
(47 min., 1997, VC 3641, pt. 2)

 

Read:
Ch. 10, "The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 233-254
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Hominid footprint from Laetoli, Tanzania 3.7 m.y.a.
Hominid footprint
from Laetoli, Tanzania
3.7 m.y.a.

 
 

Announcements

 
PCforum Topic 5

Is Bigfoot Real?

Can Bigfoot be a Gigantopithecus?

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 the Associate Press carried an article on Bigfoot: "Sasquatch enthusiasts camp out in West Virginia mountains in search of fabled creature"

Mysterious Orang Pendek Apeman Spotted by British Expedition, September 2009
-- Telegraph (30 September 2009)

Bigfoot's Likely Haunts 'Revealed', July 2009
-- New Scientist (06 July 2009)

A former University of Minnesota professor, Grover Krantz, has spent much of his life in search of Bigfoot.

A former University of Minnesota Duluth Geology professor once went Bigfoot hunting in a foreign country under the guise of doing geological research.

Last year a veteran northern Minnesota and Wyoming hunter, and UMD graduate, told Tim Roufs that he encountered one north of Two Harbors.

In 2007 it was claimed that, "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"
(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.

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

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

Before that 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," the last-known prehistoric ape.

Gigantopithecus is featured at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa:

Gigantopithecus.
Gigantopithecus
Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa

Read (1) the most recent Associated Press article on Bigfoot (28 October 2009):
(That article can be found at http://www.startribune.com/nation/66888677.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUX)

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) read 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?

3. Is it possible that Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus?

4. Why? Or, why not?

Patterson-Gimlin photo of Bigfoot.
Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film


PCforum
<http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/PCforum/>

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic

[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 5

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class

 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

6:10 video:

The Making of Mankind: One Small Step
(55 min., 1981, VC 398)

The Making of Mankind, Richard Leakey.


Laetoli footprints, artist's reconstruction.

Laetoli hominids, Tanzania
3.7 m.y.a.

 

07:38 video:

The Story of Hominid Evolution:
Part 2: "Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots"

(47 min., 1997, VC 3641, pt. 2)


Australopithecus robustus

Australopithecus robustus
SK 48

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

  1. the actual content of the various finds

  2. archaeological field methods and techniques

  3. laboratory methods and techniques

    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .

  4. archaeological dating techniques

  5. theoretical / interpretative approaches

    • including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks

07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

Return Midsemester Exams

review exam I

individualized results

If you took the essay exam on-line your exam is back in your
WebDrop folder
with comments
at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

 

Your grade-to-date and full information on your overall work is available 24/7/365 in your
eGradebook file
at <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook>

 

If you have any
questions
please stop in (Cina 214),
SMS/text message at 218.260.3032,
or drop a line at e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu

 

grading

criteria for grading written works

UMD Grading Policies

proofreader's marks

The "Strike Zone "

The Strike Zone in Baseball

© Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.

"The Curve"


  A = 93.0%   A- = 90.0%
B+ = 87.0%     B = 83.0%     B- = 80.0%
C+ = 77.0%   C = 73.0%   C- = 70.0%
D+ = 67.0%   D = 63.0%   F   = below 60.0%


200.0 points possible
 
"Range" 90.0
Your Score =
# correct


5 points


Your % =
Your Score
/ 200

Mean = 137.3
"average"

S.D . =
26.1
"standard deviation"
  Low = 85.0
High = 175.0
"Exam 1 curve" = 12 17
Standard deviation diagram.
"standard deviation"
Wikipedia
 

 

Note: if you took or will take a makeup exam, it may take several days for you to get your exam back

 

Old Business

Weeks

07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 
 

Assignments

Read:
Ch. 10, "The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 233-254
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

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