Slide 1Modern Physical AnthropologySlide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 7Slide 8Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Basic ConceptsSlide 20Slide 21Modern Physical AnthropologySlide 23Slide 24Slide 25Slide 26Slide 27Slide 28Slide 29Slide 30Slide 31Slide 32Slide 33Slide 34Slide 35Slide 36Modern Physical AnthropologySlide 38Slide 39Slide 40Slide 41Slide 42Slide 43Modern Physical AnthropologyPrehistoric Cultures Major Characteristics of Modern Physical Anthropology#88. Work on population studies, including effect of population density on behaviorModern Physical Anthropologywww.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/15546939.htmnews.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6057004.stmhttp://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/15546939.htmhttp://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/15546939.htmUnderstanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., pp. 365.Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 545Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 5428.38.3The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, Richard H. Steckel and Dr. Jerome C. Rose (Cambridge University Press, 2002).“The researchers attributed the widespread decline in health in large part to the rise of agriculture and urban living.”“The more mobile, less densely settled populations were usually the healthiest pre-Columbians.”“Even so, in the simplest hunter-gatherer societies, few people survived past age 50. In the healthiest cultures in the 1,000 years before Columbus, a life span of no more than 35 years might be usual.”Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 544average life span = ca. 76“potential life span”=ca. 116Basic Conceptsdifferential reproductiondifferential survivalModern Physical Anthropologywww.startribune.com/] 6http://www.herald-journal.com/obits/2004/otto0704.html] 74http://www.beargrease.com/http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/most43.html] 74] 669 [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0120_060120_irish_men_2.html/] 74] 6http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html] 74] 6www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5379014/] 74] 6special situationsModern Physical Anthropologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers] 74] 6http://youngest_mother.tripod.com//] 74] 6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50#Cases_of_pregnancy_over_50] 74] 69. Work on Biocultural EvolutionContinue on to Set #08Modern Physical
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