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Spring 2017 | ANTH 5244 Section 001: Interpreting Ancient Bone (52300)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
ANTH 8244 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 318
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How anthropologists use fossil bones to answer questions of past human diet, behavior, and environments. Basics of skeletal-element/species identification of humans and large mammals. Project where students analyze a small assemblage of bones. Emphasizes scientific method, data analysis using computers. prereq: 1001
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tappe004+ANTH5244+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Newly revamped course covers techniques for reconstructing the past, now enhanced with laboratory observations and research. Includes sections on: Taphonomy of Hominins: Australopiths to Homo sapiens, Cutmark and other bone modification analysis, King Richard III: what was he really like?, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Distinguishing sites created by different carnivore species, Mammoth hunting, Pleistocene Extinctions: Overkill or Rapid Climate Change? and Domestication of Mammals.
- Grading:
- 25% Reports/Papers
25% Special Projects
50% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Papers and site reports will be presented to the class.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
60% Discussion
20% Laboratory
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52300/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 December 2016
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2017 Anthropology Classes