syllabi

Week 1: January 17, 19		Week 2: January 24, 26
Ethics and Representation	Read: Deloria; Klesert and Powell; Rose	Skeletal Development and Age Estimation	Read: Scheuer and Black (2004) Ch. 2-3
Week 3: Jan 31, Feb 2		Week 4: February 7, 9
Dental Development and Age Estimation	Read: Scheuer and Black (2004) Ch. 5; Scheuer (2002)	Paleodemography	Read: Angel (1971); Bocquet-Appel and Naji (2006); McCaa (1998)
Week 5: February 14, 16		Week 6: February 21, 23
Race and Biological Distance	Read: Ch 16 or 17, Lieberman (2001); Boas (1912)	Biocultural Stress and Health in Prehistory	Read: Ch. 4; Larsen (1995); Buzon (2006)
Week 7: Feb 28, Mar 1		Week 8: March 6, 8
Diet and subsistence	Read: Ch. 13-14	Dental Developmental Stress Markers	Read: Ch. 10; Goodman et al. (1980); Armelagos et al. (2009)
Week 9: March 13, 15		Week 10: March 20, 22
Spring Break	Final research for your class presentation	Degenerative conditions	Read: Ch. 6, 12; Rogers et al. (2005); ABGP Ch 11
Week 11: March 27, 29		Week 12: April 3, 5
Congenital and Developmental Defects	Read: Ortner Ch. 4, 18, 19 ; Merbs, Masnicova	Infectious Disease	Read: Ortner Ch. 10; Robbins et al. (2009); Stone et al. (2009)
Week 13: April 12		Week 14: April 17, 19
Metabolic and Hematopoietic Disorders	Read: Ortner 14, 15; Mays (2006)	SAA meeting (Gwen in Memphis)
Week 15: April 24, 26		Week 16: May 1, 3
Traumatic Injury	Read: Ch. 11; Ortner Ch. 8; Lovell (1997)	Project presentations		Read: Ch. 15

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE AND SCHEDULE
Please note that there is flexibility (!) in this schedule and there may occasionally be
some minor changes as I choose to include spontaneous class discussion, videos, etc.

There will be readings as assigned below plus weekly readings from Ciochon and Russell's "Human Evolution Sourcebook", 2 ed.

Week 1: January 17, 19		Week 2: January 24, 26 (Gwen in Thailand)
Historical Background and Evolutionary Perspectives; Lab: Scientific Method (Team A)	Read: Ridley Ch. 1; Ch. 2	Pattern and Process in Evolution; Lab: Forces of Evolution (Team B)	Read: Ridley Ch. 3; Ch. 4
Week 3: Jan 31, Feb 2		Week 4: February 7, 9
Humans as Apes; Lab: Forces of Evolution (Team A)	Read: Ridley Ch. 5; Ch. 6	Primate Evolution and Behavioral Ecology;  Lab: Primates (Team B)	Read: Wrangham and Pilbeam; Ridley Ch. 7; Ch. 8
Week 5: February 14, 16		Week 6: February 21, 23
The Context for Hominin Evolution; Lab: Hominin origins (Team A)	Read: Marks; Ridley Ch. 9	Hominoid to Hominin; Lab: Hominin adaptations (Team B)	Read: Debate on Senut, Haile-Salassie, and Brunet; Ridley Ch. 10
Week 7: Feb 28, Mar 1		Week 8: March 6, 8
The Australopithecines; Lab: Hominin adaptations (Team A)	Read: Strait; Lovejoy; Ridley Ch. 11	Origin of Homo; Midterm Exam due Thursday; Lab: Pliocene Hominins (Team B)	Read: Reed; Ridley Ch. 12; Ch. 13
Week 9: March 13, 15		Week 10: March 20, 22
Spring Break	Ridley Ch. 14; Ch. 15	The Late Pliocene; Lab: Australopithecines, Early Homo, and morphology of LB1 (Team A)	Read: Berger et al. (2010); Aiello (2010); Ridley Ch. 16
Week 11: March 27, 29		Week 12: April 3, 5
Exodus; Lab: Biological and Behavioral Plasticity (Team B)	pick 1 section in Part V and prepare summary for class presentation; Ridley Ch. 17	Homo erectus; Lab: Pelvis, locomotion and birth (Team A)	Read: Spoor (2007); Aiello and Wells (2002); Rosenberg and Trevathan (2003)
Week 13: April 12 (Easter break)		Week 14: April 17, 19
The Pleistocene; Lab: Phylogeny and Ontogeny (Team B)	Rightmire; Bermudez de Castro; Ridely Ch. 19	SAA meeting (Gwen in Memphis)
Week 15: April 24, 26		Week 16: May 1, 3
Neandertals; Lab: Neandertal adaptations (Team A)	Read:Ruff; pick 1 section from Part VII and prepare debate position; Ridley Ch. 22	Understanding human diversity; Lab: Out of Africa (Team B)		Read: pick 1 (59, 62, 63, 64, 68, 72) and prepare summary; Ridley Ch. 23

Final Exam period is Friday, May 11, 2012 from 9:00 AM -11:30 AM
(Final exam paper and Lab portfolios due)

Spring 2010

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA

syllabus

Wk	Date	Class Discussion Topic	Readings
1	1/12-14	The Indian Context: Geography, and Climatic Context	Wolpert Ch 1; Kennedy 1-10
2	1/19-21	Geology and Paleoclimate Studies	Charkrabarti 20-30; Allchin Ch 2
3	1/26-28	Miocene Hominoids: Environments, Adaptations, and Evolution	Kennedy 86-120
4	2/2-4	Paleontology, Archaeology, Colonialism	Chakrabarti 4-19; Kennedy 11-85
5	2/9-11	Paleolithic Perspectives and the Enigma of Pleistocene Hominins in India	Chakrabarti 41-90; Kennedy 121-188
6	2/16-18	Narmada Hominin	DeLumley and Sonakia 1985; Kennedy and Chiment 1991; Kennedy 1994
7	2/23-25	Early Holocene Chrono-cultural Context	Chakrabarti 91-116; Kennedy 189-200
8	3/2-4	Adaptations of Mesolithic Hunters and Foragers on the Gangetic Plains	Kennedy 200-241
9	SPRING BREAK
10	3/16-18	Sri Lanka	Deraniyagala 1991; Kennedy et al 1989
11	3/23-25	Pre-Harappan Farmers and Pastoralists of the Indus Valley (Mehrgarh)	Chakrabarti 117-150; Kennedy 242-289
12	3/30-4/1	The Harappan Civilization: Overview and Current Problems	Chakrabarti 151-204; Kennedy 290-325
13	4/6 holiday 4/8	Bioarchaeology of Harappan Civilization	Kenoyer 1998 Ch 1; Possehl 2002 Ch 14
14	4/13-15	Deccan Chalcolithic	Chakrabarti 205-261; Kennedy 308-325
15	4/20-22	Deccan Chalcolithic: current research	Lukacs 2007; Robbins
16	4/27	Megaliths and Race in Anthropology	Charkrabarti 31-40; Kennedy 326-386
16	5/3	Papers due in my box Monday, May 3, by 5 PM

Week 1: Mechanisms of evolution		Week 2: Sexual Selection and Perspectives
Mon: Introduction	Readings: Ember et al.: Evolution and Genetics Small: Female Choice	Mon: Martin Luther King Jr	Ellison: Chapter 1 Hrdy: pp. 1-26, 96-114
Wed: Evolutionary Theory		Wed: misconceptions of evolution
Fri: mechanisms of evolution		Fri: the history of theories of sexual selection
Week 3: Sex		Week 4: Evolution and Human Birth
Mon: perspectives for studying human reproduction	Readings: Miracle articles on Human sexual anatomy and physiology (provided in class) Plus: 2 handouts on anatomy and intersex conditions	Mon: Evolution of the female orgasm	Readings (handouts): Evolution of Human Birth and Bipedalism and Birth; the Obstetrical Dilemma revisited
Wed: variability in human sexes (intersex conditions)		Wed: Biocultural perspectives on birth
Fri: bio-cultural issues of sexual desire (and the feminist critiques)		Fri: Evolution of birth in hominins
Week 5: The return to the sexual cycle (Menstruation)		Week 6: Sperm, Eggs, and Gestation
Mon: Birth: 8 Women's Stories (video)	Readings: Ellison Ch. 2 and 5	Mon: Sperm Wars	Readings: Ellison Ch. 3 and Edwards (pregnancy sickness); optional: Scientific American: Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword ... and/or: a brief outline of evo-devo
Wed: Desmond Morris Video "The Biology of Love" write a critique for the midterm (turn in Week 8 Friday)		Wed: Eggs, Chimeras, and Clones (Oh My!)
Fri: evolutionary theories on menstruation		Fri: pregnancy and embryology
Week 7: Breasts and Breastfeeding		Week 8: Primate Family Planning
Mon: Breastfeeding- biology, anatomy, and physiology discussion	Readings: Ellison Ch. 3; Hrdy: pp. 121-145; Small: 177-212	Mon: Discussion of Contraception- primate style, fitness tradeoffs	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 175-204; Anderson (2006)
Wed: Breasts and Breastfeeding in evolutionary perspective		Wed: Maternal investment strategies and Sex-Ratios
Fri: biocultural perspectives on breastfeeding		Fri: Midterm
Week 9: Family Planning		Week 10: Spring Break
Mon: Video: Abortion: North and South	Readings: Ellison Ch. 6; Hrdy: pp. 351-380	Spring Break	Readings: Ellison Ch. 8; Hrdy: pp. 205-234
Wed: discussion of abortion from evolutionary and biocultural perspectives
Fri: return midterms and hand in journals
Week 11: Paternal Investment and Allomothering		Week 12: Dr. Robbins will be at AAPA Meeting Wed, Fri
Mon: allomothering	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 146-174; 318-350	Mon: discussion of cross cultural perspectives on PPD and infanticide	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 266-287; 288-317
Wed: Paternal investment and How do primate dads recognize their offspring?		Wed: Video: Girl of a Girl: Female infanticide in India VC 10269
Fri: Postpartum biology, Support, and depression		Fri: The Right to Decide: Infanticide in the US
Week 13: Infant Adaptive Strategies		Week 14: Parenting
Mon: Sleeping like a baby?	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 383-451; Small pp. 139-175	Mon: Easter Break	Readings: Small: pp. 43-69; 70-108; 213-232
Wed: Infant crying		Wed: Evolution and biodemography of childhood and adolescence
Fri: Infant faces		Fri: Gwen in Cary, NC (help)
Week 15: The Post-Reproductive Period		Week 16: Final Papers Due
The Grandmother Hypothesis	Readings: Ellison: Ch. 7; Hawkes and O'Connell (2005)

WEEK	DATES	LECTURE TOPIC	READ	ASSIGNMENTS
1	Jan 17, 19	Introduction; Science; Misconceptions of Evolution; Evolution	Text: Ch. 1	blog I due 1/23
2	Jan 24, 26 Gwen in Thailand	Movies: "Great Transformations" and "The Evolutionary Arm's Race"	Text: Ch. 2	Blog II due 1/30
3	Jan 31, Feb 2	Cells, DNA, Mendelian genetics	Text: Ch.3;	blog III due 2/6
4	Feb 7, 9	Population genetics	Text: Ch. 4	blog III due 2/27
5	Feb 14, 16	Intro to osteology	Text: Ch. 7	2/ 16 EXAM I (chapters 1-4)
6	Feb 21, 23	Primate biology; Movie: "A winning design"	Text: Ch. 6	blog IV due 2/27
7	Feb 28, Mar 1	Primate taxonomy and Primate evolution	Text: Ch. 8	blog V due 3/5
8	Mar 6, 8	Movie: "Life in the trees"	Review chs. 6-8	3/13 EXAM II (chapters 6-8)
9	Mar 13, 15	Hominins: origins and evolution		Spring break
10	Mar 20, 22	Australopithecines; Movie: ‚"Ardipithecus"	Text: Ch. 9	blog VI due 3/26
11	Mar 27, 29	Origin of the genus Homo; Movie: Becoming Human Part I	Text: Ch. 10	blog VII due 4/2
12	Apr 3, 5	Homo erectus; The Hobbit	Text: Ch. 11	blog VIII due 4/11
13	Apr 12	Neandertals	Text: Ch. 12
14	Apr 17, 19 Gwen in Memphis	Movie: Becoming Human Part II; Becoming Human Part III		blog IX due 4/23
15	Apr 24, 26	AmHs	Text: Ch. 5	blog X due Apr 30
16	May 1, 3	modern human variation; Review	Review Chs. 5, 9-12
exam week	FINAL EXAM Monday, May 7, 2012 from 9:00 AM -11:30 AM Take a final exam online to practice

Megaliths and Race in Anthropology