Lab Manual and Workbook for Physical Anthropology

Lab Manual and Workbook for Physical Anthropology

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Master the concepts of physical anthropology with LAB MANUAL AND WORKBOOK FOR PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY! With hands-on lab assignments that help you apply physical anthropology perspectives and techniques to real situations, this lab manual walks you through difficult topics such as genetics and the human genome, primate morphology and behavior, human osteology, evolution, and forensic anthropology. Many photographs, marginal definitions, key terms, helpful hints, exercises, and an extensive index emphasize important topics and make studying easy.

 

Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human

Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human

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A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbreaking dig in recent history.Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history—his nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa—the so-called birthplace of humanity—but in Europe, and his features suggest we evolved much differently than scientists once believed.In prose that reads like a gripping detective novel, Ancient Bones interweaves the story of the dig that changed everything with the fascinating answer to a previously undecided and now pressing question: How, exactly, did we become human? Placing Böhme’s discovery alongside former theories of human evolution, the authors show how this remarkable find (and others in Eurasia) are forcing us to rethink the story we’ve been told about how we came to be, a story that has been our guiding narrative—until now.

 

The 12th Planet: Earth Chronicles Series, Book 1

The 12th Planet: Earth Chronicles Series, Book 1

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Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world.The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image.The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.

 

Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 12/13

Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 12/13

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The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction an annotated table of contents a topic guide an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details.

 

Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987

Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987

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A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town of Bluefields. Fieldwork on both sides of the conflict allows the author to juxtapose Miskitu and Sandinista perspectives, to show how actors on each side understood the same events in radically different ways and how they moved gradually toward reconciliation.Since 1894, Miskitu people have faced an expansionist nation-state and have participated as well in a U.S.-controlled enclave economy and a civil society dominated by U.S. missionaries. The cultural logic of contemporary ethnic conflict, the book argues, can be found in the legacy of Miskitu responses to this dual subordination. While resisting the Nicaraguan state, Miskitu people drew closer to the Anglo-American institutions and worldview. These inherited premises of Anglo affinity, combined with militant ethnic demands, motivated the post-revolutionary mobilization. Sadinista revolutionary nationalism, in turn, had little tolerance for ethnic militancy, and even less for Anglo affinity. Only with autonomy negotiations did both sides begin to address these underlying causes of the conflict. Though portraying autonomy as a major step toward peaceful conflict resolution and more egalitarian ethnic relations, the nook concludes that this new political arrangement did not, and perhaps could not, fully overcome the contradictions from which it arose.The book offers a critique of existing approaches to ethnic mobilization and to revolutionary nationalism in Central America, putting forward an alternative framework grounded in Gramscian culture theory. This permits a grasp of the combined presence of ethnic militancy and Anglo affinity in the Miskitu people’s consciousness, a previously unexamined key to Miskitu collective action. The same notion of contradictory consciousness illuminates the Sadinistas’ thought and practice: They too espoused a determined political militancy fused with assimilationist premises toward Indians, which created contradictions at the core of their egalitarian revolutionary vision.

 

A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

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*Running Time => 10 hrs. and 3 mins.*The idea that evolution enables specific behaviors to come naturally to anyone is a profoundly unhelpful way to understand ourselves and our species.A great deal of evidence surrounding what humans are like and the conditions that shape human evolution recently surfaced, and it's time to re-examine the origins of the human species. In the past seven million years, many humans have moved away from the tropical forests of Africa and into air-conditioned homes. While the journeys our ancestors took are still being investigated today, we can piece together a significant portion of the narrative using a wide range of disciplines. Lesley Newson and Peter J. Richerson, a husband-and-wife team with backgrounds in biology from the University of California, Davis, have assembled a story of the evolutionary journey of humankind.In 'THE STORY OF US', Newson and Richerson illustrate the process of gene-culture coevolution by taking readers through seven stages of human evolution. They begin with the life of the ape seven million years ago, moving through and beyond the modern homosapien. Newson and Richerson reveal how life has changed throughout time, offering narrative sections in addition to the hard science to illustrate the problems our ancestors faced and what they did to overcome them. The book offers insight into the environment, resources, culture, and more, making it easy for readers to imagine what life was like at different stages throughout human history.Not only does 'THE STORY OF US' depict how complex networks of caring, sharing, and competition have developed over time, but the book also delves into the creation of culture. The resulting book explains why the human psyche is more malleable than any other animal's on our earth.©2020 Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

 

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland

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Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period. Gabriel Cooney argues that the archaeological evidence demonstrates a much more complex picture than the current orthodoxy on Neolithic Europe, with its assumption of mobile lifestyles, suggests. He integrates the study of landscape, settlement, agriculture, material culture and burial practice to offer a rounded, realistic picture of the complexities and the realities of Neolithic lives and societies in Ireland.