Tuesday 3 November 2009: Finished Special Skills In the Lab (slides 10B) and In the Field and Lab (slides 10C), Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D), and Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E) up to Seriation.
Headlines: "Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory"
Chinese paleontologists claim this 110,000-year-old jawbone is from a Homo sapiens (Image: Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 -- The New Scientist
On Tuesday 3 November 2009
The New Scientist reported . . .
Chapter 12 of the text focuses on "The Complete Replacement Model" (aka the "Out of Africa" model)
and "The Regional Continuity Model" (aka "Multiregional Evolution").
The video Children of Eve (Week 09)
puts the "Out of Africa" debate in historic contexts.
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
"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."
As you view the videos over the remainder
of the semester pay attention to . . .
Thursday 29 October 2009: Reviewed viewing guide and Special Skills: In the Lab (slides 10B) and Special Skills: In the Field and Lab (slides 10B) up to Archaeologists.
Tuesday 3 November 2009: Finished Special Skills In the Lab (slides 10B) and In the Field and Lab (slides 10C), Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D), and Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E) up to Seriation.
Thursday 29 October 2009: Reviewed viewing guide and Special Skills: In the Lab (slides 10B) and Special Skills: In the Field and Lab (slides 10B) up to Archaeologists.
Tuesday 3 November 2009: Finished Special Skills In the Lab (slides 10B) and In the Field and Lab (slides 10C), Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D), and Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E) up to Seriation.
Thursday
5 November 2009: Reviewed PCforum Topic 6, Introduction to Early Hominins (slides 17A), and viewed Children of Eve (58 min., 1987, CC, VC 961). Didn't do seriation or ethnoarchaeology.
Headlines: "Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory"
Chinese paleontologists claim this 110,000-year-old jawbone is from a Homo sapiens (Image: Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 -- The New Scientist
On Tuesday 3 November 2009
The New Scientist reported . . .
Chapter 12 of the text focuses on "The Complete Replacement Model" (aka the "Out of Africa" model)
and "The Regional Continuity Model" (aka "Multiregional Evolution").
The video Children of Eve (Week 09)
puts the "Out of Africa" debate in historic contexts.
PCforum: Topic 7 Oldest Artifact in America -- Readers Write . . .
On Thursday, 5 November 2009,
the same folks who last year discovered the "14,000-year-old" coprolites announced the discovery of "the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years."
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
"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."
As you view the videos over the remainder
of the semester pay attention to . . .