ANTH 024: D2: Prehistoric Archaeology
School: The University of Vermont (UVM )
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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 8Overview of every lecture, focused mainly on the lectures dealing with human evolution and ancient hominins.
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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4Description of Neanderthals, Early Modern Humans, and how the two evolved/interacted together
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Introduction to homo erectus and how they differed from earlier hominins, and what technologies & adaptations they employed
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4Brief description of lithic analysis, introduction to second unit on human evolution and our earliest ancestors
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Overview of paleoethnobotany and what it studies, and of paleoclimatology and its methods. Also brief intro to bioarcheology
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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy 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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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2Outline of archeological dating methods, and a description of relative dating and absolute dating.
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2Outline of how sites are created, what allows them to be preserved, and how they are excavated
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4Outline of the major changes in archeology over the years