Anthropology 202
Human Evolution and the Fossil Record
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45
Kirkbride 205








Instructor: Karen R. Rosenberg
Office: 105 Munroe Building
Phone: 831 1855

Email: krr@udel.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 8-9:30, 11-12:30
 

Textbooks

Haviland, William A. Human Evolution and Prehistory. Fifth Edition, Harcourt Brace.

Wolpoff, Milford H. and Rachel Caspari 1997 Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction. Westview.
 

Course Requirements
 

•Midterm Exam (30% of course grade)
•Final Exam (40%)
•Map and Bone Quiz (10%),
•two assignments (10% each).
 

The final examination will cover material from the entire course. There will be no make-up quizzes, exams or late assignments, without a written note from a physician. Please note the times of the assignments, quiz and exams NOW. There will be no changes.

Email

Note that I will often communicate with the class using email. If you have not activated your university email account, you should do that immediately. If you generally use another email system (AOL, or Hotmail, for example), please set your university email to be automatically forwarded to the email address you check regularly. Instructions for how to do this can be obtained from the computing center.

Reading

On the schedule below, readings are given for each week from the two assigned textbooks (H = Haviland, W&C = Wolpoff and Caspari). In addition, each week there will be one or two other articles (sometimes on the web, other times on reserve at Morris Library). These will be listed on the course web page at www.udel.edu/anthro/krosenberg/202. It is your responsibility to check that web page each week for readings and/or links.

It is your responsibility to read and understand the attached statement from the Department of Anthropology ("General Statement of Policies and Procedures for Students in Anthropology").

Anthropology 202 Study Suggestions


  • Do the reading the week for which it is listed in the class schedule. The readings, films, assignments and lecture material are somewhat but not completely overlapping and lectures, films, assignments and reading are all considered essential aspects of this course. Use the glossary in the Wolpoff and Caspari book
  • Treat the pictures and tables in the textbook and those which are handed out in class as a part of the reading. Much important information is contained in pictures as well as in the text.
  • Do the assignments ahead of time and bring them to me for a reading of the rough draft. I will be happy to make suggestions on how first drafts can be improved if I receive them five or more days before the due date.
  • If you have questions on the readings, films, assignments or lectures, please feel free to ask them in class, send me e-mail or see me during my office hours. If you are unable to make it to my office hours, I will arrange to see you at another time.

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    Schedule


    Week
    Topic
    Readings
    Feb 8 Introduction H: Putting the World into Perspective and Chapter 1 (The Nature of Anthropology)
    Feb 15 Studying the Past H: Chapter 2 (Methods of Studying the Human Past)
    Feb 22 Evolution H: Chapter 3 (Biology and Evolution)
    Feb 29 Humans are Primates H: Chapter 4 (Monkeys, apes and humans: the modern primates)
    March 7

    March 9

    		 Fossil Primates

    1st assignment due

    		 H: Chapter 5 (Fossil Primates)

     
    March 14 The origin of Hominines H: Chapter 6 (The Earliest Hominines)
    March 21 Review and Midterm (March 23)  
    SPRING  BREAK  
    April 3 (3:30-5:00)  Rachel Caspari (Author of one of the books we are using in this course) will speak at 3:30  "What is a modern human? Race and understandings of the evolution of modernity." This lecture is strongly recommended
    April 4 Homo habilis H: chapter 7 (Homo habilis and cultural origins)

    W&C: Introduction and chapter 1
    April 11 Homo erectus H: chapter 8 (Homo erectus and the emergence of hunting and gathering)

    W&C: chapters 2, 3
    April 18 Archaic Homo sapiens H: chapter 9 (Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic)

    W&C: chapters 4,5
    April 25
     
     

    April 27

    		 More on Neandertals (my personal favorites)

    2nd assignment due

    		 H: chapter 10 (Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic)

    W&C: chapters 6-8
    May 2 Anatomically modern humans – Is Evolution over or are we still changing? W&C: chapters 9,10

    H: chapter 11 (Cultivation and domestication)
    May 9
     
     

    May 11

    		 Race and Human Evolution

    Map and Bone Quiz

    		 H: chapter 13 (Modern human diversity)

    W&C: chapter 11 and Epilogue
    May 16 Review  
    MAY 22 (1-3 PM) Final exam  

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    url: http://www.udel.edu/anthro/krosenberg/202/202syllabus.html