Spring 2018  |  ANTH 8244 Section 001: Interpreting Ancient Bone (51744)

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
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 318
Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 10 seats filled)
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:
For more information visit: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tappe004+ANTH8244+Spring2018 skeleton, archaeology, human evolution, bones, case studies, taphonomy, forensic anthropology
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/51744/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 December 2016

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