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Week 10

Neandertals
and
Other Archaic Homo sapiens

CEE

Read:
 Ch. 12, "The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans," pp. 283-310
Exam:

Prepare for Exam #2
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Neandertal
 
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Week 10 Day 19

Tuesday 10 November 2009

nlt 3:32 The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]
Part 1; "The Mammoth Hunter"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647: Pt. 1)
Part 2: "The Death of Neanderthal Man" [sic.]
(52 min, 2002, VC 3647: Pt. 2)



  

Announcements

 
 
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."

Oldest American Artefact Unearthed 
-- Nature (05 November 2009)

Copan ritual.

"An Oregon cave has yielded the oldest artefact ever found in the Americas."
Tom Stafford

For Topic 7 first review the Nature article and the "Comments" about the article by other readers . . .
(found below the article itself)

"Oldest American Artefact Unearthed"
<http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091105/full/news.2009.1058.html>

Questions:

1. What do you think is the most important point made by the readers who have commented on the article?

2. Why?

3. What do you expect will be the importance of the new discovery in the long run?"

4. Why?


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 7

PCforum image.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 
PCforum: Topic 8
 Midterm Exam Part II

Exam answer sheet.

For Topic 8, have a look at the Exam II information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html>

Text chapters covered in Exam 2.

Understanding Humans, 10ed, p. iii

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

Useful Information:

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 8

PCforum image.

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)

Neanderthal man: Interbreeding debate continues.
"Neandertal man"
BBC

nlt 3:32 video:

The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]

Episode 1:
"The Mammoth Hunter"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pt. 1)

Episode 2:
"The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pt. 2)

Also avilable from the UMD Library:

Neanderthals on Trial -- NOVA
(60 min., 2002, VC 4333)

And for fun:
 Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 2001, VC 4592)

[The facts and datails in this presentation are good,
but the dramatization gets a little carried away.
Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

And for even more fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)

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

Methods and Techniques Slides
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)

 
 

Old Business

  • Next Time


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

Weeks

Methods and Techniques Slides
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. 12, "The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans," pp. 283-310
Exam:
Prepare for Exam #2
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

  • 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.
 
 
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Week 10 Day 20

Thursday 12 November 2009


  

Announcements
 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

  Week
CEE		 Day  
"Premodern Humans" (aka " Archaics ") Slides
Text Ch. 11 "Premodern Humans," pp. 245-272
10 19   A. Neandertals
(Homo neandertalensis)
(Homo sapiens neandertalensis)
B.
 "Other Archaics "
(Homo heidelbergensis)
(Homo sapiens heidelbergensis)
        (slides 29)    
       
Neandertal II (slides 30)
       
Steinheim / "Eve" (slides 28)

Weeks

Methods and Techniques Slides
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)

 

Old Business

  • 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.
  
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 12, "The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans," pp. 283-310
Exam:

Prepare for Exam #2
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

  • 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.
 
 
 
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Neanderthals

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CEE Week 10

Neandertals
and
Other Archaic Homo sapiens

Monday 16 November 2009

The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]
6:33 Part 1:
"The Mammoth Hunter"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647: Pt. 1)
[short break]
7:33 Part 2:
"The Death of Neanderthal Man" [sic.]
(52 min, 2002, VC 3647: Pt. 2)



 

Read:
 Ch. 12, "The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans," pp. 283-310
Exam:

Prepare for Exam #2
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Neandertal
 
 

Announcements

  • Please complete Topic 8 by tomorrow
 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

Neanderthal man: Interbreeding debate continues.
"Neandertal man"
BBC

06:33 video:

The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]

06:33 Episode 1:
"The Mammoth Hunter"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pt. 1)

[short break]
07:33 Episode 2:
"The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]"
(52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pt. 2)

Also avilable from the UMD Library:

Neanderthals on Trial -- NOVA
(60 min., 2002, VC 4333)

And for fun:
 Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 2001, VC 4592)

[The facts and datails in this presentation are good,
but the dramatization gets a little carried away.
Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

And for even more fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)

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

Methods and Techniques Slides
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
CEE		 Day  
"Premodern Humans" (aka " Archaics ") Slides
Text Ch. 11 "Premodern Humans," pp. 245-272
10 19   A. Neandertals
(Homo neandertalensis)
(Homo sapiens neandertalensis)
B.
 "Other Archaics "
(Homo heidelbergensis)
(Homo sapiens heidelbergensis)
        (slides 29)    
       
Neandertal II (slides 30)
       
Steinheim / "Eve" (slides 28)



 
 

Old Business

 

 

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

 

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

Methods and Techniques Slides
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. 12, "The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans," pp. 283-310
Exam:

Prepare for Exam #2
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

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