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Tuesday
27 November 2007
Week 12 Day 24
nlt 02:52 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?"
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Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France.
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Announcements
- PCforum: Topic 12 -- BBC: Archaeology
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PCforum: Topic 12 -- BBC: Archaeology
The prestigeous Scout Report
in its 23 November 2007 edition
(Volume 13, Number 45)
features
the BBC: Archaeology site
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/>
The Scout Report's critique of the site:
"It's a fairly difficult endeavor to reconstruct an Iron Age roundhouse, what with all of the archaeology training required and such. Persons with such interests who lack the necessary training need worry no longer, as the BBC has created a rather fine site that lets users take in many facets of archaeology, including the aforementioned roundhouse. From their homepage, visitors can delve into the latest archaeology news or go straight away to the "Excavations and Techniques" section. Within this section, visitors will find more detailed subsections, including "Techniques", "Recording Finds", "Types of Archaeology" and "Reconstructions". The "Types" section includes overviews of various fields of archaeology, complete with first-hand commentaries and photographs. The "Techniques" area includes a feature titled "The Story of Carbon Dating" and a piece on the relationship between archaeology and metal detecting. The site is rounded out by the "Reconstructions" area, where visitors can view that roundhouse and also look into the reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot."
First visit the BBC: Archaeology site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/
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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 12
REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
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Features of the Day
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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
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- Old Business
- Tuesday, 20 November 2007, ended with
Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21), Movius Line map, #105
- Lithics and Other Tools (continued)
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Tools: Osteodontokeratic and Lithic |
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23 / 24 |
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Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms
/ Basic Types (slides
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- 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
- Tuesday, 20 November 2007, ended with
Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21), Movius Line map, #105
- Tuesday, 27 November 2007, finished
Upper Paleolithic Tool Tradition (slides 23)
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Assignments
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Ch. 14, "Food Production," pp. 331-370 |
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CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH
-- "Geomatics: Analyzing Spatial Patterns of the Past," pp. 371-372 |
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PCforum |
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Notes
- Tuesday, 20 November 2007, ended with
Tools and Techniques: Basic Terms / Basic Types (slides 21), Movius Line map, #105
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