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Evolution and Prehistory : The Human Challenge (with InfoTrac)

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Evolution and Prehistory : The Human Challenge (with InfoTrac)

by: HAVILAND/PRINS/WALRATH/MCBRIDE

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0534610161
Edition: 7th
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Copyright: 07/30/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Part I: Anthropology: The Challenge of Knowing Humanity. 1. The Essence of Anthropology. 2. Biology and Evolution. 3. Individual Views of Delinquency: Choice and Trait. Part II: EVOLUTION: THE CHALLENGE OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ORIGINS. 4. Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology. 5. Macroevolution and the Early Primates. 6. The First Bipeds. Part III: THE GENUS HOMO: BIOCULTURAL CHALLENGES. 7. Homo habilis and Cultural Origins. 8. Homo erectus and the Emergence of Hunting and Gathering. 9. Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic. 10. Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic. "New Directions in Preventing Delinquency: Secondary Prevention Efforts: Family and Community." Part IV: HUMAN BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION: THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN DIVERSITY. 11. The Neolithic Revolution: Domestication of Plants & Animals. 12. The Emergence of Cities and States. 13. Modern Human Diversity. 14. Culture, Disease, and Globalization.

Preface

xix

Putting the World in Perspective

xxx

PART 1 Anthropology: The Challenge of Knowing Humanity

(88)

The Essence of Anthropology

(26)

The Development of Anthropology

(1)

Anthropology and Other Academic Disciplines

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Yolanda Moses

(1)

Anthropology and Its Subfields

(3)

Physical Anthropology

(2)

Archaeology

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Forensic Anthropology

(4)

Linguistic Anthropology

(1)

Cultural Anthropology

(2)

Original Study: Fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa: Traditional Healers on the Front Line

(2)

Medical Anthropology

(1)

Anthropology and Science

(3)

Difficulties of the Scientific Approach

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Franz Boas, Fredric Ward Putnam, John Wesley Powell

(1)

Anthropology's Comparative Method

(1)

Biocultural Connection: The Anthropology of Organ Transplantation

(1)

Anthropology and the Humanitites

(1)

Questions of Ethics

(1)

Anthropology and Globalization

(6)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Questions for Reflection

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Biology and Evolution

(28)

The Classification of Living Things

(4)

The Discovery of Evoution

(2)

Heredity

(5)

The Transmission of Genes

(5)

Biocultural Connection: The Social Impact of Genetics on Reproduction

(2)

Original Study: Ninety-Eight Percent Alike: What Our Similarity to Apes Tells Us about Our Understanding of Genetics

(1)

Population Genetics

(1)

The Stability of the Population

(1)

Evolutionary Forces

(3)

Mutation

(1)

Genetic Drift

(1)

Gene Flow

(1)

Natural Selection

(1)

Anthropology Applied: The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project

(8)

The Case of Sickle-Cell Anemia

(2)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Questions for Reflection

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

(1)

Suggested Readings

(2)

Living Primates

(32)

The Primate Order

(2)

Primate Characteristics

(10)

The Primate Brain

(2)

Primate Sense Organs

(1)

Primate Dentition

(2)

The Primate Skeleton

(2)

Reproduction and Care of Young

(2)

Establishing Evolutionary Relationships through Genetics

(1)

Modern Primates

(5)

Prosimians

(2)

Anthropoids: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

(3)

The Social Behavior of Primates

(2)

The Group

(2)

Original Study: Reconciliation and Its Cultural Modification in Primates

(3)

Individual Interaction and Bonding

(1)

Sexual Behavior

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Jane Goodall, Kinji Imanishi

(3)

Play

(1)

Communication

(1)

Home Ranges

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Baboon Social Relationships and Primate Conservation

(2)

Learning

(1)

Use of Objects as Tools

(1)

Hunting

(1)

The Question of Culture

(3)

Primate Behavior and Human Evolution

(1)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Questions for Reflection

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

PART 2 Evolution: The Challenge of Understanding Human Origins

(78)

Field Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology

(26)

Methods of Data Recovery

(2)

The Nature of Fossils

(1)

Original Study: Whispers from the Ice

(3)

Searching for Artifacts and Fossils

(3)

Site Identification

100

(2)

Biocultural Connection: Kennewick Man

102

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Cultural Resource Management

103

(12)

Excavation

103

(3)

State of Preservation of Archaeological and Fossil Evidence

106

(2)

Sorting Out the Evidence

108

(2)

Dating the Past

110

(2)

Methods of Relative Dating

112

(1)

Methods of Chronometric Dating

113

(2)

Chance and the Study of the Past

115

(3)

Chapter Summary

116

(1)

Questions for Reflection

116

(1)

Key Terms

117

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

117

(1)

Suggested Readings

117

(1)

Macroevolution and the Early Primates

118

(24)

Macroevolution and the Process of Speciation

120

(2)

Original Study: The Unsettling Nature of Variational Change

122

(3)

Constructing Evolutionary Relationships

124

(1)

The Nondirectedness of Macroevolution

124

(1)

Continental Drift and Geological Time

125

(1)

Early Mammals

126

(2)

Rise of the Primates

128

(5)

True Primates

129

(1)

Oligocene Anthropoids

130

(2)

Miocene Apes

132

(1)

Biocultural Connection: Nonhuman Primates and Human Disease

133

(3)

Anthropologists of Note: Allan Wilson

136

(1)

Miocene Apes and Human Origins

137

(5)

Chapter Summary

139

(1)

Questions for Reflection

140

(1)

Key Terms

140

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

140

(1)

Suggested Readings

140

(2)

The First Bipeds

142

(26)

Original Study: Is It Time to Revise the System of Scientific Naming?

146

(1)

The Anatomy of Bipedalism

147

(1)

The Pliocene Fossil Evidence

148

(4)

Anthropologists of Note: Louis S. B. Leakey, Mary Leakey

152

(8)

South Africa

154

(2)

Robust Australopithecines

156

(2)

Australopithecines and the Genus Homo

158

(2)

Environment, Diet, and Australopithecine Origins

160

(2)

Humans Stand on Their Own Two Feet

161

(1)

Biocultural Connection: Evolution and Human Birth

162

(6)

Chapter Summary

166

(1)

Questions for Reflection

166

(1)

Key Terms

167

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

167

(1)

Suggested Readings

167

(1)

PART 3 The Genus Homo: Biocultural Challenges

168

(94)

Homo habilis and Cultural Origins

170

(20)

Early Representatives of the Genus Homo

172

(5)

Differences Between Homo habilis and Australopithecus

174

(3)

Lower Paleolithic Tools

177

(1)

Olduvai Gorge

178

(2)

Oldowan Tools

178

(2)

Anthropologists of Note: Adrienne Zihlman

180

(1)

Sex, Gender, and the Behavior of Early Homo

180

(3)

Tools, Food, and Brain Expansion

182

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Paleotourism and the World Heritage List

183

(2)

Original Study: Cat in the Human Cradle

185

(2)

Language Origins

187

(3)

Chapter Summary

188

(1)

Questions for Reflection

189

(1)

Key Terms

189

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

189

(1)

Suggested Readings

189

(1)

Homo erectus and the Emergence of Hunting and Gathering

190

(24)

Homo erectus Fossils

193

(7)

Physical Characteristics of Homo erectus

193

(1)

Relationship among Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Other Proposed Fossil Groups

194

(1)

Homo erectus from Africa

195

(2)

Homo erectus from Eurasia

197

(1)

Homo erectus from Indonesia

197

(1)

Homo erectus from China

198

(1)

Homo erectus from Western Europe

199

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Franz Weidenreich, Xinzhi Wu

200

(1)

The Culture of Homo erectus

200

(3)

The Acheulean Tool Tradition

201

(2)

Use of Fire

203

(1)

Original Study: Homo erectus and the Use of Bamboo

203

(4)

Other Aspects of Homo erectus' Culture

207

(1)

Biocultural Connection: Paleolithic Prescriptions for the Diseases of Civilization

208

(2)

The Question of Language

210

(4)

Chapter Summary

211

(1)

Questions for Reflection

212

(1)

Key Terms

212

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

212

(1)

Suggested Readings

212

(2)

Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic

214

(26)

The Appearance of Homo sapiens

216

(7)

Levalloisian Technique

217

(2)

The Neandertals

219

(3)

Javanese, African, and Chinese Populations

222

(1)

The Culture of Archaic Homo sapiens

223

(3)

Middle Paleolithic

223

(2)

The Symbolic Life of Neandertals

225

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Forensic Archaeology

226

(3)

Neandertals: Speech and Language

228

(1)

Culture, Skulls, and Modern Human Origins

229

(2)

The Multiregional Hypothesis

229

(1)

The ``Eve'' or Recent African Origins Hypothesis

230

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Berhane Asfaw

231

(1)

Reconciling the Evidence

232

(1)

Original Study: African Origin or Ancient Population Size Differences?

232

(5)

Race and Human Evolution

237

(3)

Chapter Summary

238

(1)

Questions for Reflection

238

(1)

Key Terms

238

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

238

(1)

Suggested Readings

239

(1)

Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic

240

(22)

Upper Paleolithic Peoples: The First Modern Humans

242

(4)

Upper Paleolithic Tools

243

(3)

Upper Paleolithic Art

246

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Stone Tools for Modern Surgeons

247

(3)

Anthropologists of Note: Margaret Conkey

250

(1)

Original Study: Paleolithic Paint Job

251

(3)

Other Aspects of Upper Paleolithic Culture

254

(1)

The Spread of Upper Paleolithic Peoples

254

(3)

Where Did Upper Paleolithic Peoples Come From?

257

(2)

Major Paleolithic Trends

259

(3)

Chapter Summary

260

(1)

Questions for Reflection

260

(1)

Key Terms

260

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

260

(1)

Suggested Readings

260

(2)

PART 4 Human Biocultural Evolution: The Challenge of Technology and Human Diversity

262

(82)

The Neolithic Revolution: The Domestication of Plants and Animals

264

(26)

The Mesolithic Roots of Farming and Pastoralism

266

(2)

Mesolithic Tools and Weapons

266

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the Mesolithic

267

(1)

The Neolithic Revolution

268

(3)

Domestication: What Is It?

268

(1)

Evidence of Early Plant Domestication

269

(1)

Evidence of Early Animal Domestication

270

(1)

Beginnings of Domestication

270

(1)

Why Humans Became Food Producers

271

(2)

Anthropologists of Note: V. Gordon Childe

273

(3)

Other Centers of Domestication

276

(3)

The Spread of Food Production

279

(1)

Biocultural Connection: Breastfeeding, Fertility, and Beliefs

280

(1)

Culture of Neolithic Settlements

281

(3)

Jericho: An Early Farming Community

282

(1)

Neolithic Technology

282

(1)

Pottery

282

(1)

Housing

283

(1)

Clothing

283

(1)

Social Structure

283

(1)

Neolithic Culture in the Americas

284

(1)

The Neolithic and Human Biology

284

(1)

Original Study: History of Mortality and Physiological Stress

285

(2)

The Neolithic and the Idea of Progress

287

(3)

Chapter Summary

288

(1)

Questions for Reflection

289

(1)

Key Terms

289

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

289

(1)

Suggested Readings

289

(1)

The Emergence of Cities and States

290

(28)

Defining Civilization

292

(3)

Tikal: A Case Study

295

(4)

Surveying the Site

296

(1)

Excavation

297

(1)

Evidence from the Excavation

297

(2)

Cities and Cultural Change

299

(3)

Agricultural Innovation

299

(1)

Diversification of Labor

299

(3)

Anthropology Applied: Action Archaeology and the Community at El Pilar

302

(4)

Central Government

302

(3)

Social Stratification

305

(1)

Original Study: Finding the Tomb of a Moche Priestess

306

(5)

The Making of States

311

(2)

Irrigation Systems

311

(1)

Trade Networks

311

(1)

Environmental and Social Circumscription

312

(1)

Religion

312

(1)

Action Theory

313

(1)

Civilization and Its Discontents

313

(1)

Biocultural Connection: Social Stratification and Diseases of Civilization: Tuberculosis

314

(4)

Chapter Summary

315

(1)

Questions for Reflection

316

(1)

Key Terms

316

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

316

(1)

Suggested Readings

316

(2)

Modern Human Diversity

318

(26)

Biological Variation

320

(1)

The Meaning of Race

321

(2)

Anthropologists of Note: Ashley Montagu

323

(1)

Race as a Biological Concept

323

(1)

Original Study: Race without Color

324

(3)

The Concept of Human Races

327

(5)

Some Physical Variables

328

(2)

Skin Color: A Case Study in Adaptation

330

(2)

Race and Human Evolution Revisited

332

(1)

The Social Significance of Race: Racism

333

(1)

Race and Behavior

333

(1)

Race and Intelligence

334

(3)

Intelligence: What Is It?

335

(2)

Continuing Human Biological Evolution

337

(2)

Anthropology Applied: Picturing Pesticides

339

(5)

Chapter Summary

341

(1)

Questions for Reflection

342

(1)

Key Terms

342

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

342

(1)

Suggested Readings

342

(2)

EPILOGUE Culture, Disease, and Globalization

344

(27)

The Development of Medical Anthropology

347

(3)

Science, Illness, and Disease

347

(3)

Original Study: Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa

350

(2)

Evolutionary Medicine

352

(4)

Growth and Development as Mechanisms for Adaptation

353

(2)

Symptoms as a Defense Mechanism

355

(1)

Evolution and Infectious Disease

355

(1)

Anthropologists of Note: Peter Ellison, Fatimah Jackson

356

(1)

Political Ecology of Disease

356

(1)

Kuru and Other Prion Diseases

356

(1)

Anthropology Applied: Studying the Emergence of New Diseases

357

(2)

Globalization, Health, and Structural Violence

359

(12)

Hunger and Obesity

360

(2)

Pollution

362

(2)

Structure Violence and Population Control

364

(2)

The Culture of Discontent

366

(1)

Chapter Summary

367

(1)

Questions for Reflection

368

(1)

Key Terms

368

(1)

Multimedia Review Tools

368

(1)

Suggested Readings

368

(3)

Glossary

371

(5)

Bibliography

376

(21)

Photo Credits

397

(2)

Index

399

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