1st Edition
ANTH 024: D2: Prehistoric Archaeology
School: The University of Vermont (UVM )
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Pages: 3Description of the spread of agriculture into Europe. End notes on the origin of agriculture in the Near East. Notes on the origin of agriculture in East Asia, New Guinea, and the Americas
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Pages: 3More detailed description of what agriculture entails. Overview of how agriculture emerged in the Middle East up until the Pre-Pottery Neolithics.
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Pages: 5Describes stereotypes surrounding hunter-gatherers, as well as their lifeways. Examines 4 groups. Description of the way agriculture changed human development, and 4 theories as to why it emerged
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Pages: 3Description of how homo sapiens came to Australia and the Americas, the evidence for their arrival, and how they colonized the area.
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Pages: 4More detailed discussion of the hypotheses behind the migration and evolution of homo sapiens and neaderthals. Description of the "revolution" of the Upper Paleolithic.
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Pages: 4Description of Neanderthals, Early Modern Humans, and how the two evolved/interacted together
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Pages: 3Introduction to homo erectus and how they differed from earlier hominins, and what technologies & adaptations they employed
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Pages: 4Brief description of lithic analysis, introduction to second unit on human evolution and our earliest ancestors
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Pages: 3Overview of paleoethnobotany and what it studies, and of paleoclimatology and its methods. Also brief intro to bioarcheology
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Pages: 3Ending notes on Survey and Sampling methods, including remote mapping & sensing Covers archeozoology and how it is used to understand what people ate and thus gain a better picture of society as a whole
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Pages: 3Continuation of points about archeological dating, focused on absolute methods of dating. Introduction to surveying and how archeological sites are found
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Pages: 2Outline of archeological dating methods, and a description of relative dating and absolute dating.
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Pages: 2Outline of how sites are created, what allows them to be preserved, and how they are excavated