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Week 1 (5 items)
Human Prehistory 101: Prologue - 23andMe, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Recommended | YouTube video (5 mins)
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 1 of 3): Out of (Eastern) Africa - 23andMe, 17 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Recommended | YouTube video (5 mins)
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 2 of 3): Weathering the Storm - 23andMe, 17 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Recommended | YouTube video (3 mins)
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 3 of 3): Agriculture Rocks Our World - 23andMe, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Recommended | YouTube video (7 mins)
Human Prehistory 101: Epilogue - 23andMe, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Recommended | YouTube video (3 mins)
Week 2 (4 items)
Hominin dispersals in the Old World - Richard Klein, 2018 Chapter | Prescribed
Life of Mammals: Episode 10, Food for Thought, Endurance hunting footage clip. - Mike Salisbury, David Attenborough, 2002 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | Part of documentary (7 mins)
The transition from australopithecus to homo - DE Lieberman, DR Pilbeam, R Wrangham Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter 1
The complete world of human evolution [Selected pages] - C Stringer, P Andrews, 2005 Book | Recommended | Read pp. 136-139, 144-147
Week 3 (2 items)
The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers - Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read chapters 4 & 5.
Meat-Eating Among the Earliest Humans - Briana Pobiner, 2016 Article | Recommended
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Week 4 (3 items)
Revolutionary Images: The iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity - Stephanie Moser, Clive Gamble Chapter | Prescribed
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins - John Gurche, 2013 Book | Recommended
Representation and aesthetics in Paleo-art: An interview with John Gurche - Diana Koepfer, 2003 Article | Recommended
Week 5 (3 items)
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Prescribed | Read pages 109 & 126-131
Neanderthals, Biosocial Models of - Isabelle de Groote Chapter | Recommended
Brother or Other: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution - Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, Milford H. Wolpoff Chapter | Recommended
Week 6 (4 items)
Neanderthals, Biosocial Models of - Isabelle de Groote Chapter | Prescribed
How to make stone soup: Is the “Paleo diet” a missed opportunity for anthropologists? - Melanie L. Chang, April Nowell, 2016 Article | Recommended
Investigating Neanderthal Lifeways Through Paleoethnobotany Chapter | Recommended
A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter - Gonen Sharon Chapter | Recommended
Week 7 (3 items)
The Grisly folk - H.G. Wells Chapter | Prescribed
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Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative - Hackett, Dennell, 2003 Article | Prescribed
Human Evolution as Narrative: Have hero myths and folktales influenced our interpretations of the evolutionary past? - Landau, 1984 Article | Recommended
Week 8 (10 items)
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Prescribed | Read pages 109-120
Genetics 101 (Part 1 of 5): What are genes? - 23andMe, Khan Academy, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | YouTube video (4 mins)
Genetics 101 (Part 2 of 5): What are SNPs? - 23andMe, Khan Academy, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | YouTube video (2 mins)
Genetics 101 (Part 3 of 5): Where do your genes come from? - 23andMe, Khan Academy, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | YouTube video (4 mins)
Genetics 101 (Part 4 of 5): What are phenotypes? - 23andMe, Khan Academy, 18 April 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | YouTube video (2 mins)
Genetics 101 (Part 5 of 5): Why no Y? - 23andMe, Khan Academy, 11 May 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | YouTube video (1 min)
The Origin of Modern Humans Chapter | Recommended | Read pages 120-147
Human Migrations and the Peopling of the World - Rene J. Herrera, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand, 2018 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 3, 4, and 12 (Alternative title 'Ancestral DNA, human origins, and migrations')
When did
first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul? - James F. O’Connell, Jim Allen, Martin A. J. Williams, Alan N. Williams, Chris S. M. Turney, Nigel A. Spooner, Johan Kamminga, Graham Brown, Alan Cooper, 2018 Article | Recommended
Wandering stories - Florian Maderspacher, 2018 Article | Recommended
Week 9 (6 items)
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The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Prescribed | Read pages 120-126 & 133-147
Prehistoric art - Khan Academy, 2019 Webpage | Recommended | Explore this little introduction to prehistoric art
Prehistoric Art - Margaret W. Conkey Chapter | Recommended
Human History Written in Stone and Blood - Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, 2009 Article | Recommended
Some Key Issues in the Emergence and Diviersity of "Modern" Human Behaviour - Paul Mellars Chapter | Recommended
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Archaeology of - Vivian Scheinsohn Chapter | Recommended
Week 10 (5 items)
Big Game, Small Game: Why It Matters - Emily Lena Jones Chapter | Prescribed
Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New Light on Old Debates - Richard B. Lee, 2018-10-21 Article | Prescribed
Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans - Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno, 2014-04 Article | Recommended
Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa: Comparing the Still Bay of Blombos Cave with the Howiesons Poort of Klipdrift Shelter - Jerome P. Reynard, Christopher S. Henshilwood, 2017 Article | Recommended
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations - Melinda A. Zeder, 2012 Article | Recommended
Week 11 (4 items)
Quest for Fire - Philip Lieberman, 1982 Article | Prescribed
Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire - Stephen Zoller, March 1982
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Webpage | Prescribed
Human adaptation to the control of fire - Richard Wrangham, Rachel Carmody, 2010 Article | Prescribed
The last Neanderthal: the rise, success and mysterious extinction of our closest human relatives - Tattersall, 1999 Book | Recommended
Week 12 (2 items)
Scenarios in human evolution: science or fiction? - Sue Taylor Parker, Karin Enstam Jaffe, 2008 Chapter | Prescribed
What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives? - Chris Gosden Chapter | Recommended
Essay Question 1 (33 items) What evidence is there to suggest that Homo erectus evolved as an endurance predator and how useful were Acheulian handaxes in this context?
Before you Begin (3 items)
The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution - Ignacio de la Torre, 2016 Article | Recommended
Hominin dispersals in the Old World - R Klein, 2018 Chapter | Recommended
The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers - Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell, 2008 Book | Recommended | Chapters 4 & 5.
Homo erectus – more on anatomy & its behavioural implications (3 items)
Human evolution: an illustrated introduction - Roger Lewin, 2005 Book | Prescribed | Read pages: 159-165, 166-169, 170-175.
Principles of Human Evolution - Roger Lewin, Robert Andrew Foley, Ebook Library, 2009 Book | Recommended | Read Chapter 13
The transition from Australopithecus to Homo - Daniel E. Lieberman, American School of Prehistoric Research, DR Pilbeam, R Wrangham, c2009 Book | Recommended | Read pages 1-22
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Endurance predation/persistence hunting (5 items)
Endurance running and the evolution of Homo - Dennis M. Bramble, Daniel E. Lieberman, 2004 Article | Recommended
Evolutionary Implications of Persistence Hunting: An Examination of Energy Return on Investment for !Kung Hunting - Glaub, M and C Hall, 2017 Article | Recommended
Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter‐Gatherers - Louis Liebenberg, 2006 Article | Recommended
The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) - Daniel E. Lieberman, Dennis M. Bramble, David A. Raichlen, John J. Shea , 2007 Article | Recommended
The endurance running hypothesis and hunting and scavenging in savanna-woodlands - Travis Rayne Pickering, Henry T. Bunn, 2007 Article | Recommended
Archaeological Evidence for Meat-Eating, Hunting and Cooking (13 items)
Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya - D. R. Braun, J. W. K. Harris, N. E. Levin, J. T. McCoy, A. I. R. Herries, M. K. Bamford, L. C. Bishop, B. G. Richmond, M. Kibunjia, 2010 Article | Recommended
Evolution of the human diet: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable - Peter S. Ungar, 2007 Book | Recommended | Read Chapter by Bunn, pp. 191-211
Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator - Henry T. Bunn, Alia N. Gurtov, 2014 Article | Recommended
Toward a Long Prehistory of Fire - Michael Chazan, 2017 Article | Recommended
Zooarchaeological reconstruction of newly excavated Middle Pleistocene deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa - Frances L. Forrest, Deano D. Stynder, Laura C. Bishop, Naomi E. Levin, Sophie B. Lehmann, David B. Patterson, Thalassa Matthews, David R. Braun, 2018 Article | Recommended
Researching the Nature of Fire at 1.5 Mya on the Site of FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya, Using High-Resolution Spatial Analysis and FTIR Spectrometry - Sarah Hlubik, Francesco Berna, Craig Feibel, David Braun, John W. K. Harris, 2017 Article | Recommended
Revisiting the hunting-versus-scavenging debate at FLK Zinj: A GIS spatial analysis of bone
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surface modifications produced by hominins and carnivores in the FLK 22 assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - Jennifer A. Parkinson, 2018 Article | Recommended
Meat-Eating Among the Earliest Humans - Briana Pobiner, 2016 Article | Recommended
Systematic butchering of fallow deer (Dama) at the early middle Pleistocene Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel) - Rivka Rabinovich, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Naama Goren-Inbar, 2008 Article | Recommended
Hominid behaviour and the earliest occupation of Europe: an exploration - Wil Roebroeks, 2001 Article | Recommended
Carnivory, coevolution, and the geographic spread of the genus Homo - Mary C. Stiner, 2002 Article | Recommended
Hunting and Hunting Weapons of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe - Paola Villa, Michel Lenoir Chapter | Recommended
Control of Fire in the Paleolithic: Evaluating the Cooking Hypothesis - Richard Wrangham, 2017 Article | Recommended
Acheulian handaxes – Understanding the Stone Technology of Homo erectus (9 items)
The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia - Yonas Beyene, Shigehiro Katoh, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Kozo Uto, Masafumi Sudo, Megumi Kondo, Masayuki Hyodo, Paul R. Renne, Gen Suwa and Berhane Asfaw, 2013 Article | Recommended
The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? - Corbey, Raymond Article | Recommended
Less of a bird's song than a hard rock ensemble - Robert Hosfield, James Cole, John McNabb, 2018 Article | Recommended
Foundation stones: early artefacts as indicators of activities and abilities - G. LI. Isaac Chapter | Recommended
Handaxes in South Africa: Two case studies in the early and later Acheulean - Hao Li, Kathleen Kuman, George M. Leader, Raymond Couzens, 2018 Article | Recommended
Site fragmentation, hominin mobility and LCT variability reflected in the early Acheulean
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record of the Okote Member, at Koobi Fora, Kenya - Darya Presnyakova, David R. Braun, Nicholas J. Conard, Craig Feibel, John W.K. Harris, Cornel M. Pop, Stefan Schlager, Will Archer, 2018 Article | Recommended
The Oxford handbook of African archaeology - 2013 Book | Recommended | Chapter 22 'The African Acheulian: an archaeological summary' by Sahnouni, Semew & Rogers
Large flake Acheulian - Sharon, 2010 Article | Recommended
The handaxe reconsidered - Thomas Wynn, John Gowlett, 2018 Article | Recommended
Essay Question 2 (28 items) Using the illustrations provided on the LMS (see Essay Block), discuss how reconstructed scenes of Homo erectus reflect changing interpretations of their behaviour.
'Reading' Reconstructed Scenes of the Prehistoric Past (2 items)
Revolutionary Images: The iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity - Stephanie Moser, Clive Gamble Chapter | Recommended
Undulating women and erect men: Visual imagery of gender and progress in illustrations of human evolution - Melanie G. Wiber, 1994 Article | Recommended
Current Interpretations of Homo erectus - overviews (3 items)
The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers - Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell, 2008 Book | Recommended | Chapters 4 and 5
Hominin dispersals in the Old World - R Klein, 2018 Chapter | Recommended
Transitions in prehistory: essays in honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef - Ofer Bar-Yosef, John J. Shea, Daniel E. Lieberman, American School of Prehistoric Research, c2009 Book | Recommended | Read pp. 1-22 (Lieberman, Pilbeam and Wrangham chapter)
Current Interpretations of Homo erectus - meat eating and hunting (7 items)
Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya - D. R. Braun, J. W. K. Harris, N. E. Levin, J. T. McCoy, A. I. R. Herries, M. K. Bamford, L. C. Bishop, B. G. Richmond, M. Kibunjia, 2010
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Article | Recommended
Ch. 11: Meat made us human - Henry T. Bunn Chapter | Prescribed | Read pp. 191-211 (Chapter by Bunn)
Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator - Henry T. Bunn, Alia N. Gurtov, 2014 Article | Recommended
Revisiting the hunting-versus-scavenging debate at FLK Zinj: A GIS spatial analysis of bone surface modifications produced by hominins and carnivores in the FLK 22 assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - Jennifer A. Parkinson, 2018 Article | Recommended
Meat-eating Among the Earliest Humans - Briana Pobiner, 2016 Article | Recommended
Systematic butchering of fallow deer (Dama) at the early middle Pleistocene Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel) - Rivka Rabinovich, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Naama Goren-Inbar, 2008 Article | Recommended
Control of Fire in the Paleolithic: Evaluating the Cooking Hypothesis - Richard Wrangham, 2017 Article | Recommended
Current Interpretations of Homo erectus - endurance predation (5 items)
Endurance running and the evolution of Homo - Dennis M. Bramble, Daniel E. Lieberman, 2004 Article | Recommended
Evolutionary Implications of Persistence Hunting: An Examination of Energy Return on Investment for !Kung Hunting - Glaub, M and C Hall, 2017 Article | Recommended
Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter‐Gatherers - Louis Liebenberg, 2006 Article | Recommended
The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) - Daniel E. Lieberman, Dennis M. Bramble, David A. Raichlen, John J. Shea , 2007 Article | Recommended
The endurance running hypothesis and hunting and scavenging in savanna-woodlands - Travis Rayne Pickering, Henry T. Bunn, 2007 Article | Recommended
Acheulean technology (5 items)
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The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia - Y. Beyene, S. Katoh, G. WoldeGabriel, W. K. Hart, K. Uto, M. Sudo, M. Kondo, M. Hyodo, P. R. Renne, G. Suwa, B. Asfaw, 2013 Article | Recommended
The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? - Raymond Corbey, Adam Jagich, Krist Vaesen, Mark Collard, 2016 Article | Recommended
The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution - Ignacio de la Torre, 2016 Article | Recommended
Less of a bird's song than a hard rock ensemble - Robert Hosfield, James Cole, John McNabb, 2018 Article | Recommended
The handaxe reconsidered - Thomas Wynn, John Gowlett, 2018 Article | Recommended
1980s/1990s Interpretations of Homo erectus (3 items)
Chapter 2 Chapter | Prescribed
Taphonomy at a Distance: Zhoukoudian, "The Cave Home of Beijing Man"? [and Comments and Reply] - Lewis R. Binford, Chuan Kun Ho, Jean S. Aigner, Marie-Henriette Alimen, Luis Alberto Borrero, Cheng Te-K'un, Tang Chung, Paul Goldberg, Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, José Luis Lanata, Lü Zune, Kubet Luchterhand, R. Lee Lyman, Guillermo Mengoni Goñalons, Gai Pei, Lawrence G. Straus, Hugo Daniel Yacobaccio and Seonbok Yi, 1985 Article | Recommended
MAN the SCAVENGER - Robert J. Blumenschine, 1989 Article | Recommended
1970s/1960s interpretations of Homo erectus (3 items)
Acheulian Occupation Sites at Torralba and Ambrona, Spain: Their Geology - Karl W. Butzer , 1965 Article | Recommended
Traces of Pleistocene hunters: An East African example - G Isaac Chapter | Prescribed | Read pp. 253-261 (Isaac Chapter)
Peking Man - Wu Rukang and Lin Shenglong, 1983
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Article | Recommended
Essay Question 3 (35 items) What did Neanderthals eat, how did they hunt and how do we know? Include information derived from the study of both archaeological evidence and isotope studies of Neanderthal bones.
Before you Start (1 items)
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Recommended | Read pages 109 & 126-135
Other Introductory Discussions (4 items)
Brother or Other: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution - Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, Milford H. Wolpoff Chapter | Recommended
Neanderthals, Biosocial Models of - Isabelle de Groote Chapter | Recommended
A Companion to Paleoanthropology - David R. Begun, 2012 Book | Recommended | Read Chapter by K. Harvati-Paptheodorou ‘Neanderthals’, pp. 538-556.
The last Neanderthal: the rise, success and mysterious extinction of our closest human relatives - Ian Tattersall, 1999 Book | Recommended | Especially chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Meat-Eating and Hunting: Archaeological Data (10 items)
Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals - Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Elisabeth S. Noack, Eduard Pop, Constantin Herbst, Johannes Pfleging, Jonas Buchli, Arne Jacob, Frieder Enzmann, Lutz Kindler, Radu Iovita, Martin Street, Wil Roebroeks, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study - Nicholas J. Conard, Jürgen Richter, Jurgen Richter, 2011 Book | Recommended | Read Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Roebroeks Chapter pp. 61-71
An Energetics Perspective on the Neandertal Record - Katharine Macdonald, Wil Roebroeks, Alexander Verpoorte Chapter | Recommended
Middle Palaeolithic Diets: A Critical Examination of the Evidence
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Chapter | Recommended
Neanderthal Subsistence Behaviours in Europe - Patou-Mathis, M, 2000 Article | Recommended
The evidence from Vindija Cave (Croatia) reveals diversity of Neandertal behaviour in Europe - Marylène Patou-Mathis, Ivor Karavanić, Fred H. Smith, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia - Domingo C. Salazar-García, Robert C. Power, Alfred Sanchis Serra, Valentín Villaverde, Michael J. Walker, Amanda G. Henry, 2013 Article | Recommended
A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter - Gonen Sharon Chapter | Recommended
Shoot first, ask questions later: Interpretative narratives of Neanderthal hunting - Mark White, Paul Pettitt, Danielle Schreve, 2016 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence strategies in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain - José Yravedra-Sainz de los Terreros, Alberto Gómez-Castanedo, Julia Aramendi-Picado, Ramón Montes-Barquín, Juan Sanguino-González, 2016 Article | Recommended
Meat-Eating and Hunting: Isotope Data (4 items)
Neanderthal Dietary Habits: Review of the Isotopic Evidence - Hervé Bocherens Chapter | Recommended
Diet and Ecology of Neanderthals: Implications from C and N Isotopes - Hervé Bocherens Chapter | Recommended
Direct isotopic evidence for subsistence variability in Middle Pleistocene Neanderthals (Payre, southeastern France) - Hervé Bocherens, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Camille Daujeard, Paul Fernandes, Jean-Paul Raynal, Marie-Hélène Moncel, 2016 Article | Recommended
Guts and brains: an integrative approach to the hominin record - Wil Roebroeks, 2007 Book | Recommended | Read Richards Chapter, pp. 223-234.
Other Aspects of Diet, Foraging and Mobility (16 items)
Wooden tools and fire technology in the early Neanderthal site of Poggetti Vecchi (Italy) - Biancamaria Aranguren, Anna Revedin, Nicola Amico, Fabio Cavulli, Gianna Giachi, Stefano Grimaldi, Nicola Macchioni, Fabio Santaniello, 2018 Article | Recommended
Shifts in Neandertal mobility, technology and subsistence strategies in western France -
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Anne Delagnes, William Rendu, 2011 Article | Recommended
Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? - Harold L. Dibble, Dennis Sandgathe, Paul Goldberg, Shannon McPherron, Vera Aldeias, 2018 Article | Recommended
Middle palaeolithic lithic assemblages in western Mediterranean Europe from MIS 5 to 3 - Aleix Eixea, 2018 Article | Recommended
To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on Neanderthal ecology - Luca Fiorenza, Stefano Benazzi, Amanda G. Henry, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Ruth Blasco, Andrea Picin, Stephen Wroe, Ottmar Kullmer, 2015 Article | Recommended
Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials - Karen Hardy, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal Cooking and the Costs of Fire - Amanda G. Henry, 2017 Article | Recommended
Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans - Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno, 2014-04 Article | Recommended
Nutritional ecology and diachronic trends in Paleolithic diet and health - Bryan Hockett, Jonathan Haws, 2003 Article | Recommended
Investigating Neanderthal Lifeways Through Paleoethnobotany Chapter | Recommended
Dental calculus indicates widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary niche - Robert C. Power, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Mauro Rubini, Andrea Darlas, Katerina Harvati, Michael Walker, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Amanda G. Henry, 2018 Article | Recommended
A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter - Gonen Sharon Chapter | Recommended
Neandertal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis - A. C. Sorensen, E. Claud, M. Soressi, 2018 Article | Recommended
Macrobotanical evidence (wood charcoal and seeds) from the Middle Palaeolithic site of El Salt, Eastern Iberia: Palaeoenvironmental data and plant resources catchment areas - Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Cristo M. Hernández, Bertila Galván, 2018 Article | Recommended
Hunting and Hunting Weapons of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe - Paola Villa,
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Michel Lenoir Chapter | Recommended
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus - Laura S. Weyrich, Sebastian Duchene, Julien Soubrier, Luis Arriola, Bastien Llamas, James Breen, Alan G. Morris, Kurt W. Alt, David Caramelli, Veit Dresely, Milly Farrell, Andrew G. Farrer, Michael Francken, Neville Gully, Wolfgang Haak, Karen Hardy, Katerina Harvati, Petra Held, Edward C. Holmes, John Kaidonis, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Marco de la Rasilla, Antonio Rosas, Patrick Semal, Arkadiusz Soltysiak, Grant Townsend, Donatella Usai, Joachim Wahl, Daniel H. Huson, Keith Dobney, Alan Cooper, 2017 Article | Recommended
Essay Question 4 (39 items) Review one of the following novels in the light of current understanding of the behaviour, ecology and evolutionary status of Neanderthals.
Novels (3 items)
The clan of the cave bear - Jean M. Auel, 2011 Book | Prescribed
The Inheritors - William Golding Book | Prescribed
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age - Bjo ̈ rn Kurte ́ n Book | Prescribed
Before you begin (1 items)
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Recommended | Read pages 109 & 126-135
Introducing Neanderthals (3 items)
Brother or Other: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution - Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, Milford H. Wolpoff Chapter | Recommended
Neanderthals, Biosocial Models of - Isabelle de Groote Chapter | Recommended
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A Companion to Paleoanthropology - David R. Begun, 2012 Book | Recommended | Read Chapter 28 by Harvati-Papatheodorou
Discussions of Prehistoric Fiction (4 items)
The fire in the stone: prehistoric fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel - Nicholas Ruddick, 2009 Book | Recommended
Human prehistory in fiction - Charles De Paolo, 2003 Book | Recommended
Child the Creator: Children as Agents of Change in Juvenile Prehistoric Literature - Blythe E. Roveland, 1993 Article | Recommended
Studying human origins: disciplinary history and epistemology - Wil Roebroeks, Raymond Corbey, 2001 Book | Recommended
Stories of human evolution as hero tales (3 items)
Studying human origins: disciplinary history and epistemology - Roebroeks, Corbey, 2001 Book | Recommended | Read pp. 9-20 (Bowler Chapter)
Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative - Hackett, Dennell, 2003 Article | Recommended
Human Evolution as Narrative: Have hero myths and folktales influenced our interpretations of the evolutionary past? - Landau, 1984 Article | Recommended
Archaeology of the Neanderthals - General (2 items)
Neanderthals and modern humans: an ecological and evolutionary perspective - Clive Finlayson, 2004 Book | Recommended
The Palaeolithic societies of Europe - Clive Gamble, 1999 Book | Recommended
Neanderthals - Diet (12 items)
Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? - Harold L. Dibble, Dennis Sandgathe, Paul Goldberg, Shannon McPherron, Vera Aldeias, 2018 Article | Recommended
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Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study - Conard, Richter, 2011 Book | Recommended | Chapter by Gaudinski-Windheuser, S 2011, ‘On Neanderthal subsistence in Last Interglacial forested environments in northern Europe’
Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals - Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Elisabeth S. Noack, Eduard Pop, Constantin Herbst, Johannes Pfleging, Jonas Buchli, Arne Jacob, Frieder Enzmann, Lutz Kindler, Radu Iovita, Martin Street, Wil Roebroeks, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal Use of Fish, Mammals, Birds, Starchy Plants and Wood 125-250,000 Years Ago - Hardy, Bruce LMoncel, Marie-Hélène, 2011 Article | Recommended
Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials - Karen Hardy, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthal Cooking and the Costs of Fire - Amanda G. Henry, 2017 Article | Recommended
Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans - Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno, 2014 Article | Recommended
Anterior dental microwear textures show habitat-driven variability in Neandertal behavior - Kristin L. Krueger, Peter S. Ungar, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Alejandro Pérez-Pérez, Erik Trinkaus, John C. Willman, 2017 Article | Recommended
Investigating Neanderthal Lifeways Through Paleoethnobotany Chapter | Recommended
A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter - Gonen Sharon Chapter | Recommended
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus - Laura S. Weyrich, Sebastian Duchene, Julien Soubrier, Luis Arriola, Bastien Llamas, James Breen, Alan G. Morris, Kurt W. Alt, David Caramelli, Veit Dresely, Milly Farrell, Andrew G. Farrer, Michael Francken, Neville Gully, Wolfgang Haak, Karen Hardy, Katerina Harvati, Petra Held, Edward C. Holmes, John Kaidonis, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Marco de la Rasilla, Antonio Rosas, Patrick Semal, Arkadiusz Soltysiak, Grant Townsend, Donatella Usai, Joachim Wahl, Daniel H. Huson, Keith Dobney, Alan Cooper, 2017 Article | Recommended
Shoot first, ask questions later: Interpretative narratives of Neanderthal hunting - Mark White, Paul Pettitt, Danielle Schreve, 2016 Article | Recommended
Neanderthals - Home range (1 items)
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Home-range size in large-bodied carnivores as a model for predicting neandertal territory size - Steven Emilio Churchill, Christopher Scott Walker, Adam Michael Schwartz, 2016 Article | Recommended
Neanderthals - Social Organisation (3 items)
Human Behavioral Organization in the Middle Paleolithic: Were Neanderthals Different? - Usik and Teresa L. Armagan, Henry, Hietala, Rosen, Demidenko, Usik, Armagan, 2004 Article | Recommended
The Social and Material Life of Neanderthals - Clive Gamble Chapter | Recommended
Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context - Penny Spikins, Andy Needham, Lorna Tilley, Gail Hitchens, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neanderthals - Art, ornamentation, cognition and language (4 items)
Europe's first artists were Neandertals - Tim Appenzeller, 2018 Article | Recommended
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art - D. L. Hoffmann, C. D. Standish, M. García-Diez, P. B. Pettitt, J. A. Milton, J. Zilhão, J. J. Alcolea-González, P. Cantalejo-Duarte, H. Collado, R. de Balbín, M. Lorblanchet, J. Ramos-Muñoz, G.-Ch. Weniger, A. W. G. Pike, 2018 Article | Recommended
Reading Neandertal Minds - Kate Wong, 2015 Article | Recommended
A critical look at evidence from La Chapelle-aux-Saints supporting an intentional Neandertal burial - Harold L. Dibble, Vera Aldeias, Paul Goldberg, Shannon P. McPherron, Dennis Sandgathe, Teresa E. Steele, 2015 Article | Recommended
Neanderthals - Extinction (3 items)
An ecocultural model predicts Neanderthal extinction through competition with modern humans - William Gilpin, Marcus W. Feldman, Kenichi Aoki, 2016 Article | Prescribed
Modeling the role of fire and cooking in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals - Anna E. Goldfield, Ross Booton, John M. Marston, 2018 Article | Recommended
Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals - Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, Alexander Hübner, Martin Petr, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, Pontus Skoglund, Vagheesh Narasimham, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Patrick Semal, Marie Soressi,
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Sahra Talamo, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Ivan Gušić, Željko Kućan, Pavao Rudan, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Cosimo Posth, Johannes Krause, Petra Korlević, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Montgomery Slatkin, Nick Patterson, David Reich, Kay Prüfer, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, 2018 Article | Recommended
Essay Question 5 (35 items) What does Palaeolithic art reveal about the behaviour of modern humans?
Before you Begin (3 items)
Prehistoric Art - Margaret W. Conkey Chapter | Recommended
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Recommended | Read pages 113-124 & 133-151
The Origins of Creativity - Heather Pringle, 2014 Article | Recommended
Early Representational Art (13 items)
Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia - M. Aubert, A. Brumm, M. Ramli, T. Sutikna, E. W. Saptomo, B. Hakim, M. J. Morwood, G. D. van den Bergh, L. Kinsley, A. Dosseto, 2014 Article | Recommended
The Cambridge illustrated history of prehistoric art - Paul G. Bahn, 1998 Book | Recommended
Images of the Ice Age - Paul G. Bahn, 2016 Book | Recommended
Dawn of art: The Chauvet Cave, the oldest known paintings in the world - Jean-Marie Chauvet, 1996 Book | Recommended
The archaeology of rock-art - Christopher Chippindale, Paul S. C. Tac ̧ on, 1998 Book | Recommended
Making art, making society: the social significance of small-scale innovations and experimentation in Palaeolithic portable art - Rebecca Farbstein, 2013 Article | Recommended
Same as it ever was? The Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura and the origins of Palaeolithic art - Harald Floss, 2018 Article | Recommended
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The visual brain and the early depiction of animals in Europe and Southeast Asia - Derek Hodgson, Benjamin Watson, 2015 Article | Recommended
‘Man the symboller’. A contemporary origins myth - Terry Hopkinson, 2013 Article | Recommended
Art for the Living - J D Lewis-Williams Chapter | Recommended
Pleistocene figurative art mobilier from Apollo 11 Cave, Karas Region, Southern Namibia - Rifkin, R.F., 2015 Article | Recommended
Prehistoric art in Europe: a deep-time social history - John Robb, 2015 Article | Recommended
Beyond Art: Toward an Understanding of the Origins of Material Representation in Europe - Randall White, 1992 Article | Recommended
The Links between Art/Symbolism and Modern Behaviour (8 items)
Images without Words: The Construction of Prehistoric Imaginaries for Definitions of ‘Us’ - Margaret W. Conkey, 2010 Article | Recommended
Language evolution - Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, 2003 Book | Recommended | Read Davidson, Chapter 8, Sections 8.1, 8.2 & 8.5.
The Evolutionary Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: Language and its Archaeology - William Noble, Iain Davidson, 1991 Article | Recommended
A Cognitive Approach to the Earliest Art - De Smedt, Johan Article | Recommended
The gesture of sight - Renaud Ego, 2018 Article | Recommended
Principles of Human Evolution - Roger Lewin, Robert Andrew Foley, Ebook Library, 2009 Book | Recommended | Read Chapter 18
Cognitive Changes and the Emergence of Modern Humans in Europe - Paul Mellars, 1991 Article | Recommended
Visual Cultures in the Upper Palaeolithic - Nowell, April, 2017 Article | Recommended
The Broader Significance of Complex Material Culture (11 items)
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Reflections on the Identities and Roles of the Artists in European Paleolithic Societies - Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello, Margaret W. Conkey, 2016 Article | Recommended
Is Palaeolithic cave art consistent with costly signalling theory? Lascaux as a test case - Rhiannon Gittins, Paul Pettitt, 2017 Article | Recommended
Reconsidering production organization in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: The case for specialized production of Aurignacian beads - Claire E. Heckel, 2018 Article | Recommended
The Origin of Modern Human Behavior. Critique of the Models and Their Test Implications - Henshilwood, Christopher s. Article | Recommended
Costly signalling, the arts, archaeology and human behaviour - Derek Hodgson, 2017 Article | Recommended
Human History Written in Stone and Blood - Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts Article | Recommended
Archeology and the evolution of human behavior - Richard G. Klein, 2000 Article | Recommended
Down with the Revolution - S McBrearty, 2007 Chapter | Recommended | Read pp. 133-151 (McBrearty Chapter)
The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe - Paul Mellars, 2005 Article | Recommended
Palaeolithic Personal Ornaments: Historical Development and Epistemological Challenges - Oscar Moro Abadía, April Nowell, 2015 Article | Recommended
Demography and Cultural Innovation: a Model and its Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Culture - Stephen Shennan, 2001 Article | Recommended
Essay Question 6 (44 items) Find a diorama of the Palaeolithic (in a book, in a museum, on-line) depicting modern humans. Critically evaluate the activities shown in the light of current understanding of the archaeological record of modern humans.
Before you Begin: Iconography (1 items)
Revolutionary Images: The iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity - Clive
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Gamble, Stephanie Moser Chapter | Recommended
Before you Begin: Archaeology of Modern Humans (3 items)
The Origin of Modern Humans Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter 'The Origins of Modern Humans', pp. 120-147.
The rise of modern humans - Paul Pettitt, 2018 Chapter | Recommended | Read pages 113-124 & 133-151
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Archaeology of - Vivian Scheinsohn Chapter | Recommended
On Reconstructing our Ancestors (3 items)
Supraorbital morphology and social dynamics in human evolution - Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Penny Spikins, Paul O’Higgins, 2018 Article | Recommended
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins - John Gurche, 2013 Book | Recommended
Representation and aesthetics in Paleo-art: An interview with John Gurche - Diana Koepfer, 2003 Article | Recommended
On Museum Dioramas and Exhibitions (12 items)
Risen Apes and Fallen Angels: The New Museology of Human Origins - Stephen T. Asma, 2011 Article | Recommended
Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic: Modern (Re)Constructions of the Cave Man - Berman, Judith Article | Recommended
‘The Direct Medium of the Vision’: Visual Education, Virtual Witnessing and the Prehistoric Past at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1923 - Victoria E.M. Cain, 2010 Article | Recommended
Dioramas in the Making: Caspar Mayer and Franz Boas in the Contact Zone(s) - Noémie Étienne, 2017 Article | Recommended
Little landscapes: dioramas in museum displays - Jane Insley, 2008 Article | Recommended
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Windows on nature - Stephen C. Quinn, 2005 Book | Recommended
Representing archaeological knowledge in museums: Exhibiting human origins and strategies for change - Stephanie Moser, 2003 Article | Recommended
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL: Museum Displays and the Creation of Knowledge - Stephanie Moser, 2010 Article | Recommended
Technologies of Nature: The Natural History Diorama and the Preserve of Environmental Consciousness - Bryan B. Rasmussen Article | Recommended
Writing the History of Humanity: The Role of Museums in Defining Origins and Ancestors in a Transnational World - Monique Scott, 2005 Article | Recommended
The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Teaching Human Evolution in the Museum - Monique Scott, 2010-9 Article | Recommended
Designing Human Evolution Exhibitions. Insights from Exhibitions and Audiences - Monique Scott, Ellen Giusti, 2006 Article | Recommended
On Visual Imagery of the Prehistoric Past (3 items)
On Display - Paul Hockings, 2017 Article | Recommended
Imagining prehistory: Pictorial reconstructions of the way we were - Mann, AE Article | Recommended
Picturing knowledge: historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science - Brian S. Baigrie, 1996 Book | Recommended | Read S. Moser Chapter
The Archaeology of Early Modern Humans: General (3 items)
Origin of our species - Chris Stringer, 2011 Book | Prescribed | Read chapters 5 & 6.
Human Evolution and the Archaeology of the Social Brain - John Gowlett, Clive Gamble, Robin Dunbar, 2012 Article | Recommended
Some Key Issues in the Emergence and Diversity of "Modern" Human Behaviour - Paul Mellars
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Chapter | Recommended
The Archaeology of Early Modern Humans: More specific (19 items)
The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave - Lucinda Backwell, Justin Bradfield, Kristian J. Carlson, Tea Jashashvili, Lyn Wadley, Francesco d'Errico, 2018 Article | Recommended
Bridging theory and bow hunting: human cognitive evolution and archaeology - Coolidge, Frederick LHaidle, Miriam NoëlLombard, MarlizeWynn, Thomas, 2016 Article | Recommended
Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age - Francesco d’Errico, William E. Banks, Dan L. Warren, Giovanni Sgubin, Karen van Niekerk, Christopher Henshilwood, Anne-Laure Daniau, María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi, 2017 Article | Recommended
Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans - Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno, 2014 Article | Recommended
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa - Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d'Errico, Ian Watts, 2009 Article | Recommended
Increasing Behavioral Flexibility? An Integrative Macro-Scale Approach to Understanding the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa - Andrew W. Kandel, Michael Bolus, Knut Bretzke, Angela A. Bruch, Miriam N. Haidle, Christine Hertler, Michael Märker, 2016 Article | Recommended
Adavnces in the Study of the Origin of Humanness - Sally McBrearty, 2013 Article | Recommended
Implications of Nubian-Like Core Reduction Systems in Southern Africa for the Identification of Early Modern Human Dispersals - Manuel Will, Alex Mackay, Natasha Phillips, 2015 Article | Recommended
Foraging Goals and Transport Decisions in Western Europe during the Paleolithic and Early Holocene - Eugène Morin, Elspeth Ready Chapter | Recommended
Defining Behavioral Modernity in the Context of Neandertal and Anatomically Modern Human Populations - April Nowell, 2010 Article | Recommended
Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution : Landscapes in Mind - Fiona
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Coward, , Robert Hosfield, , Matt Pope, , Francis Wenban-Smith, , and Matt Pope, 2015 Book | Recommended | Read Pettitt, Chapter 14.
Evidence of Increasing Intensity of Food Processing During the Upper Paleolithic of Western Eurasia - Robert C. Power, Frank L’Engle Williams, 2018 Article | Recommended
Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens - Patrick Roberts, Brian A. Stewart, 2018 Article | Recommended
Stable isotope evidence for (mostly) stable local environments during the South African Middle Stone Age from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal - Joshua R. Robinson, Lyn Wadley, 2018 Article | Recommended
The North African Middle Stone Age and its place in recent human evolution - Eleanor M. L. Scerri, 2017 Article | Recommended
Middle Paleolithic Large-Mammal Hunting in the Southern Levant - John D. Speth Chapter | Recommended
From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally modern - K. Sterelny, 2011 Article | Recommended
Diversity and differential disposal of the dead at Sunghir - Trinkaus, ErikBuzhilova, Alexandra P, 2018 Article | Recommended
Neandertal demise: an archaeological analysis of the modern human superiority complex.(Report) - Villa, Paola Article | Recommended
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