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9780205381968

Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205381968

  • ISBN10:

    0205381960

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past.
Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, the text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues, involving students in the scientific thought process by allowing them to draw their own conclusions.

Author Biography

Norah Moloney teaches at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She also currently lectures in archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Each chapter concludes with "Chapter Summary," "Key Words" and "Suggested Readings," and References."
Introduction to Anthropology and Methods for Studying Humans in the Past
Introduction to Anthropology
The Scientific Method
Common Sense, Science, and Religion
Archaeological Evidence
How Archaeologists Find Evidence
Analysis of Artifacts
Biological Evidence
Dating Artifacts and Fossils
In the Alps with the Ice Man
In the News at Ozette Village
In the News: The African American Burial Ground in New York City
Principles of Biological Evolution
What is Evolution?
The Tempo of Evolution
The Causes of Evolution
What Really Evolves
In Mendel's Garden
In the Galapagos Islands with Darwin and His Finches
In the News: Iceland and the Human Genome
Macroevolution: First Life Through Non-Human Primates
Principles of Reconstructing Macroevolution and Common Ancestral Groups
Macroevolution
The Emergence of Primates
Primate Evolution
Primate Behavior
In the Field and Museum with the Burgess Shale
In the Fayum Depression
Early Hominids in Africa: Ardipithecus, Australopitchecus, Homo Habilis
What is a Hominid?
Hominid Trends
The First Potential Hominids
The Genus Australopithecus
Enter the Genus Homo
In the Field with Don Johanson
In the News with the Piltdown Forgery
The Other Evolving Sex
Later Hominids: Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens
Home erectus: The Controversy and the Species
From
Early Archaic
Late Archaic
Enter Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH)
The Evolution of Speech
Behaviorally Modern Humans (BMH)
In Africa with Nariokotome
In the News with the Portugese Kid
Modern Primates
Primatology
Overview of Modern Primates
Case Studies of Modern Primate Species
Modern Monkeys
Modern Apes
Endangered Primates
Checking Out Chimpanzee Culture
In the Field with those Sexy Bonobos
Modern Humans
The Last 50 kyr in the Old World
Native Americans: Facts and Controversies
General Trends of Modern Humans
Human Biological Variation in the Year 2004
A History of ldquo;Racerdquo; in America: From Biology to Culture
Human Adaptation
Applied Biological Anthropology
Forensic/Legal Anthropology
The Future of the Human Species
In the News: Identification of Josef Mengele
We Are What We Were, Or Are We?
The Emergence of Culture in Early Hominid Societies: 2.6 MYR To 12 KYR
The Environmental Background
The Evidence: Climate and Artifacts
Early Hominid Society: The Early Stone Age and Lower Palaeolithic (2.6 MYR to 250 KYR Ago)
Human Adaptations in the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age
Humans Across the Globe: Life Between 40 and 10 KYR
Understanding Stone Tools
Paleolithic Art in Eurasia
The Peopling of Australia and the Pacific
Later Hunter Gatherers and Early Farming Societies in the Old World
The Changing Climate of the Early Holocene
Hunter-Gatherers of the Early Holocene
Subsistence Practices of Early Holocene Groups
The Emergence of Farming in Old World Neolithic Societies
Agriculture in Europe
Farming in China
Pastoralism and Cultivation in Africa
Social Complexity among Farming Communities
Genes, Languages, and Farmers
Pottery and Archaeology
The Emergence of State Societies
Mesopotamia
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