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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry
ISBN: 9780205381968 | 0205381960
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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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.
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.
| 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 | ... MORE |
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Norah Moloney teaches at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She also currently lectures in archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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