ANTH 8244 is also offered in Spring 2025
ANTH 8244 is also offered in Spring 2024
ANTH 8244 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2017 | ANTH 8244 Section 001: Interpreting Ancient Bone (52681)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
ANTH 5244 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. Skeletal element and species identification (of humans, large mammals). Students analyze small assemblage of bones for class project. Scientific method, data analysis using computers. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tappe004+ANTH8244+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/52681/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 December 2016
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2017 Anthropology Classes