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Week 12 Day 24

Tuesday 1 November 2009

nlt 4:22 Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min, 1999, VC 4324)

"Where did Homo sapiens come from?

How did they interpret their world?

And what did they think and feel?

Were they anything like us?"

Clovis point

Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France.

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Features of the Day

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Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min, 1999, VC 4324)

the ethnographic analogy with "The Bushmen" (!Kung San) to be continued next week in The Hunters

Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France.
Bear (left). Aurochs and rhinoceros (right).
Source: Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2007), p. 293

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

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
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)

Lithics and Other Tools (continued)

"Outline Chart of the Principal Paleolithic Industries"

Week CEE	Day	Tools: Osteodontokeratic and Lithic
11 / 12	23 / 24	Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21)
12		Making and Using Lithic Tools (slides 22)
		Upper Paleolithic Tool Tradition (slides 23)

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging
(time permitting, introduction to ethnographic analogy and the controlled comparison of foraging societies)
- Hunting / Gathering / Foraging: Ethnographic analogy and the Method of Conrolled Comparison (slides 24)

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Old Business

Lithics and Other Tools

"Outline Chart of the Principal Paleolithic Industries"

Week CEE	Day	Tools: Osteodontokeratic and Lithic
11 / 12	23 / 24	Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21)
12		Making and Using Lithic Tools (slides 22)
		Upper Paleolithic Tool Tradition (slides 23)

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Assignments

Read:	Ch. 14, "Food Production," pp. 345-386
Post:	PCforum

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Notes

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!Kung San Hunters

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

CE Week 12

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging

Holocene Hunters and Gatherers:

Ethnographic Analogy
and the
Method of Controlled Comparison

Monday 30 November 2009

nlt 5:12 Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min, 1999, VC 4324)

nlt 06:15 The Hunters
(72 min., 1983, VC 2305)

nlt 07:35 Desert People
(51 min., 1965, B/W, VC 1094)

Read:	Ch. 14, "Food Production," pp. 345-386
Post:	PCforum

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Features of the Day

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nlt 05:12 video

Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min, 1999, VC 4324)

the ethnographic analogy with "The Bushmen" (!Kung San) to be continued next week in The Hunters

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

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
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)

Homo sapiens sapiens Chart

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nlt 06:15 video
The Hunters
(72 min., 1983, VC 2305)

!Kung San Hunters

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

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
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)

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nlt 07:35 video
Desert People
(51 min., 1965, B/W, VC 1094)

Scenes from the video Desert People

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

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
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)

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Related Materials

Lithics and Other Tools

"Outline Chart of the Principal Paleolithic Industries"

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging

Week
CEE Day
Tools: Osteodontokeratic and Lithic

11 / 12 23 / 24 Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21)

12

Making and Using Lithic Tools (slides 22)

Upper Paleolithic Tool Tradition (slides 23)

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging: Ethnographic analogy and the Method of Conrolled Comparison

Week
CEE Day
Foraging Peoples in History and Prehistory

Ethnographic Analogy / Ethnoarchaeology (slides 11A)

12 25 / 26
Foraging: Hunting / Gathering / Collecting (slides 24)

Ambrona and Terra Amata: Big Game Hunters in Spain and France (slides 27A)

Holocene Hunters and Gatherers (slides 27B)

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Old Business

The"walk" through the early and later hominids . . . from Homo habilis continues thorugh Homo erectus, to "Premodern Humans" (the latter including Neanderthals) to "Modern" Homo sapiens . . .

Homo sapiens sapiens: "Modern" Human Beings (introduction)
- Moderns (slides 31)

Week CEE	Day	Tools: Osteodontokeratic and Lithic
11 / 12	23 / 24	Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21)
12		Making and Using Lithic Tools (slides 22)
		Upper Paleolithic Tool Tradition (slides 23)

return to scheduled features of the day

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Assignments

Read:	Ch. 14, "Food Production," pp. 345-386
Post:	PCforum

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Holocene Hunters and Gatherers: Ethnographic Analogy and the Method of Controlled Comparison

Holocene Hunters and Gatherers:

Ethnographic Analogy
and the
Method of Controlled Comparison