Midterm Review

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Midterm Review
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Intro to Anthropology The Basics

• Four field approach and applied anthropology
• Scope from primates to man, all over the world
• Why study anthropology?

Day(s) May 20 Reading EE Chapter 1
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Evolution and Genetics

• What were the beginnings of evolution?
• Darwins theory of evolution
• Mendelian genetics
• Changes in genes mutation, natural selection,
  genetic drift, gene flow
• Rates of evolution
• Punctuated equilibrium
• Phyletic gradualism

Day(s) May 22 Reading EE Chapter 3
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The Living Primates

• Common primate traits (physical and
  sociocultural)
• Classification of primates
• Taxonomy
• Phylogenetic tree
• Prosimians versus Anthropoids
• New and Old World Monkeys
• Hominoids
• Primate adaptation
• Humans versus other primates

Day(s) May 22, May 29 Reading EE Chapters 4,
5 Handouts Taxonomy Classification
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Early Primate Evolution

• Early and Miocene anthropoids
• Dryopithecus
• Gigantopithecus
• Oreopithecus

Day(s) May 29 Reading EE Chapter 5
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Early Hominids

• Evolution of bipedalism
• Australopithecines
• all subspecies
• robust versus gracile
• relative dates of specimens
• relative dates of discovery

Day(s) May 29 Reading EE Chapter 6 Handouts
Bipedalism Australopithecines
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Early Homo

• Homo habilis
• Homo rudolfensis
• Homo erectus
• Homo ergaster, Sinanthropus, Pithecanthropus
• Material culture
• fire(?)
• tools
• shelter
• Differences from modern humans
• Differences from australopithecines

Day(s) June 3 Reading EE Chapter 7 Handouts
Hominids
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Modern Humans

• Homo antecessor
• Homo heidelbergensis
• Homo neanderthalensis
• Homo sapiens and Cro-Magnon man
• Homo sapiens sapiens or modern Homo sapiens
• Art, Magic, Ritual
• Language
• Group life
• Food procurement
• Tool industries

Day(s) June 5 Reading EE Chapter 8
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Origins of Modern Humans

• Regional-Continuity Model
• Rapid-Replacement Model
• Combination Theory
• How humans got to the New World

Day(s) June 5 Reading EE Chapter 8 Handout
Peopling the World
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Human Variation and Adaptation

• Modern human physical differences
• Differing definitions of race

Day(s) June 10 Reading EE Chapter 12
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Subfields of Physical Anthropology

• Physical anthropologists are generally concerned
  with questions in the following areas
• Primatology
• Skeletal Biology
• Bioarchaeology
• Palaeoanthropology
• Palaeopathology
• Trauma
• Dental Anthropology
• Demography
• Forensic Anthropology

Day(s) June 10 Reading None - Just lecture
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Introduction to Archaeology

• Artifacts, ecofacts, fossils, features
• How are sites created and found?
• Excavation techniques
• Dating techniques
• Research questions
• Analysis - What can we learn?

Day(s) June 12 Reading EE Chapter 2
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Theory in Archaeology

• Descriptive Period
• Culture-History Period
• Processualism (the New Archaeology)
• Post-processualism

Day(s) June 19 Reading Web Site - Theory
Outline (http//www.ecu.edu/org/ags/archaeology_th
eory.html)
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Ethics in Anthropology

• Responsibilities as stated in the American
  Anthropological Association Code of Ethics
  (http//www.aaanet.org)
• to people and animals anthropologists study
• to scholarship and science
• to the public
• to students and trainees
• Ethics in archaeology as stated by the Society
  for American Archaeology (http//www.saa.org)
• stewardship
• accountability
• commercialization
• public education and outreach
• intellectual property
• public reporting and publication
• records and preservation
• training and resources

Day(s) June 19 Reading Web sites listed above
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Ethics in Archaeology - Applied

• NAGPRA
• Kennewick Man
• AAPA policy on K-Man (www.physanth.org/positions/k
  ennewick.html)
• SAA repatriation policy (www.saa.org/Repatriation/
  repat_policy.html)

Day(s) June 19 Reading Web sites listed above