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Homo erectus, Sangiran 17, Java

Homo erectus
Sangiran 17, Java

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Week 09

Homo erectus and Contemporaries

(and descendents?)

CEE


Read:
Ch. 11, "Premodern Humans," pp. 243-272
Page through:
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH  -- "Ancient DNA," pp. 273-274
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Homo erectus

Homo erectus

 

 
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Tuesday 30 October 2007

Week 09 Day 17

 

Announcements

  • Any questions about Extra Credit Options?


  • "Major archaeological find in Puerto Rico," LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZ, Associated Press, Duluth News Tribune, Monday, October 29, 2007, p. A6.

    Viewable on-line at Yahoo News, <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_archaeological_find>
    :

    • the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean

    • may have belonged to the Taino or pre-Taino people that inhabited the island before European colonization, although other tribes are a possibility

      • The Tainos were a subgroup of the Arawak Indians, who migrated to the Caribbean from Mexico's Yucatan centuries before European colonizers arrived

    • It contains stones etched with ancient petroglyphs that form a large plaza measuring some 130 feet by 160 feet, which could have been used for ball games or ceremonial rites....

    • The plaza may contain other artifacts dating from 600 A.D. to 1500 A.D.

    • Jose Oliver, a Latin American archaeology lecturer at University College London, said that archeologists make discoveries of this significance every 50 or 100 years — if they are lucky
 

PCforum: Topic 7 -- Prehistoric Redheads

Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'

"Neanderthal genetics is revealing surprises"

"Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'"

Reports the BBC News, Thursday, 25 October 2007

Read the article at

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7062415.stm>

Question:

Of what use is information like this in the study of Prehistoric Cultures?

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
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to the current topic

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Set Folder Selector to Topic 7

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

 

PCforum Topic 8 -- Human Species to Split?

Species evolving from classic development diagram.

A major UK newspaper reports:

"Human race will 'split into two different species'"

 

"The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist."

(Friday, 26th October 2007)Daily Mail (UK)

<www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965>


Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr. Curry.

Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr. Oliver Curry

"Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge."

"... Curry ... says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000."

"People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added."

"The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the 'underclass' humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures . . ."

. . . read the rest at
<www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965>

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time
as predicted by HG Wells...


H G Wells' Science Fiction novel The Time Machine (which was later adapted into two films - this picture is from the 2002 version) the human race has evolved into two species, the highly intelligent and wealthy Eloi...

H G Wells' Science Fiction novel The Time Machine (which was later adapted into two films - this picture is from the 2002 version) the human race has evolved into two species, the highly intelligent and wealthy Eloi...

..and the frightening, animalistic Morlock (as seen in the 1960 film version of the classic book)

...and the frightening, animalistic Morlock (as seen in the 1960 film version of the classic book)

 

Related Stories:

Bad Science: Oliver Curry from the Darwin@LSE research centre -- Ben Goldacre, The Guardian (21 October 2006)

Human species 'may split in two -- Dienekes' Anthropology Blog

Oliver Curry -- Wikipedia


Other Species Splits:

Neanderthal DNA Illuminates Split with Humans New Scientist (10/11/06)

Evolution's human and chimp twist (18 May 06)

Questions:
1. What do you think about evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry's theory that humanity will evolve into two separate species?

2. Why?

Rem: Set Folder Selector to Topic 8

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

  Week
CEE
Day
     
Major Discoveries slides: Homo erectus and "The Hobbit"
09 17
     
     
     
  09 18
Migrations Out of Africa (slides 26D)
       
     

 

Old Business

 

Assignments

Read:
Ch. 11, "Premodern Humans," pp. 243-272
Page through:
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH  -- "Ancient DNA," pp. 273-274
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
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Thursday 01 November 2007

Week 09 Day 18

nlt 02:47 Children of Eve
(58 min., 1987, CC, VC 961)


Announcements

 

Features of the Day

 

  • nlt 02:47 video Children of Eve
    (58 min., 1987, CC, VC 961)

    • The first part of this video is a good review for the Final Exam. Dates change rapidly in Prehistoric Cultures; ignore the dates in this video. The latest dates are included in "Times to Remember."

    • Cf, Week 13 for presentation of opposing argument, the "Regional Continuity," or the "Multiregional Hypothesis," concerning the development from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens

"Mitochondrial Eve"

"An artist's impression of Mitochondrial Eve
who probably lived in Africa,
about 150,000 years ago."
Wikipedia


"Structure of a generalized eukaryotic cell, illustrating the cell's three-dimensional nature."

"Structure of a
generalized eukaryotic cell,
illustrating
the cell's
three-dimensional nature."

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

  1. the actual content of the various findsarchaeological field methods and techniqueslaboratory methods and techniques
    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
  2. archaeological dating techniquestheoretical / interpretative approaches
    • including logic of analysis

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

  Week
CEE
Day
  07 13
Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
   
Special Skills: In the Field (slides 10A)
     
Special Skills: In the Lab (slides 10B)
     
Special Skills: In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
       
  12 24
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
     
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

 

Old Business

"Putting it all Together" (slides 17C), "Major Discoveries slides: Prehistoric Primates -- Pre Homo sapiens sapiens", "Early Homo (Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis)" (slides 20), and the Homo erectus slides, starting with Homo erectus: "Java Man" (slides 25)

  Week
CEE
Day
     
Major Discoveries slides: Homo erectus and "The Hobbit"
09 17
     
     
     
  09 18
Migrations Out of Africa (slides 26D)
       
     

 

Assignments

Read:
Ch. 11, "Premodern Humans," pp. 243-272
Page through:
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH  -- "Ancient DNA," pp. 273-274
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
 
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Homo erectus, Sangiran 17, Java

Homo erectus
Sangiran 17, Java

 

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CEE Week 09

Homo erectus and Contemporaries

(and descendents?)

Monday 5 November 2007

nlt 7:27 video Children of Eve
(58 min., 1987, CC, VC 961)

 

Read:
Ch. 11, "Premodern Humans," pp. 243-272
Page through:
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH -- "Ancient DNA," pp. 273-274
Post: PCforum


Text Resources

 

Homo erectus

Homo erectus

 

Announcements

 

PCforum: Topic 9 -- Kin Tut's face Unveiled to the World

Monday's Headlines in the Duluth News Tribune reads:

"Egypt unveils King Tut's face 85 years after discovery"

 

King Tut's face unveiled to world

King Tut's face unveiled to world
Monday, 5 November 2007 -- BBC News


Ever since his discovery in 1922 by Howard Carter, Tutankhamun, "King Tut," has been one of the most talked about discoveries in all of archaeology.

Already today, it is one of the top three stories accessed on the BBCnews page.

(Monday, 5 November 2007)

Today's Story:

"Egypt Puts King Tut on Public Display"

(Monday, 5 November 2007) Associated Press

  

King Tut's face unveiled to world

 

King Tut's face unveiled to world

 

Class webpage: Tutankhamun ("King Tut")

 

Related Sites:

BBC information is at King Tut's face unveiled to world
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7077423.stm>
(Monday, 5 November 2007) BBC News

National Geographic information is at Tut Mummy on Public Display for First Time
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071104-mummy-tut.html?email=Inside05Nov07>
(Monday, 5 November 2007) National Geographic News

For a review of King Tut see the Wikipedia entries Tutankhamun and Howard Carter

Video Face of Tutankhamen revealed

 

Follow the links on these pages

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