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ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin

involved some dramatic changes in time since death will be discussed. Particular ANP and behavior, and we will explore both the attention will be paid to the determination significance of these changes, and the methods of personal identity, such as sex, age and Biological that use interpret them. The stature, from skeletal remains, and the fossil record is abundant, and will be our analysis of skeletal trauma and . ANP 101: Human central focus. Emphasis will be placed on how Contemporary issues such as mass disasters The major concepts of biology are presented we learn things about the past, as well as what and human rights issues will be covered. from historical, contemporary, and critical we know. Advisory Prerequisite: ANP 120 viewpoints. These concepts include the cell, Advisory Prerequisite: ANP 120, GEO 102, DEC: E the gene, , development, and GEO 103, GEO 109, or any BIO course . The human implications or values SBC: SNW associated with each concept are emphasized. DEC: E 3 credits Formerly offered as BIO 101; not for credit in SBC: SNW addition to BIO 101. 3 credits ANP 300: Human Anatomy An introduction to the structure of the human DEC: E ANP 202: People and Pups: Dog body considered from both systems and SBC: SNW Behavior and Human-Canine regional approaches. Subject matter includes 3 credits Relationships the musculoskeletal, respiratory, nervous, An introduction to the growing literature on cardiovascular, digestive, and urogenital ANP 120: Introduction to Biological dog evolution, behavior, and cognition to systems, together with an appreciation of these Anthropology understand why dogs are so well adapted to systems in a regional anatomical context. An introduction to the evolutionary study of socializing with and what role they Laboratory sessions entail examination of humans and nonhuman . The course play in our . This course provides plastic models, exercises in living anatomy and provides an overview of basic evolutionary students with a foundation in animal behavior, computer "dissection." Instructor permission thought and principles; human variation specifically dog behavior and human-canine required to repeat ANP 300. This course has and environmental ; the anatomy, relationships. Key questions will include: How been designated as a High Demand/Controlled , and behavior of nonhuman primates; do dogs communicate with each other and with Access (HD/CA) course. Students registering the fossil record of nonhuman primates and us? Are dogs smarter than you think? And for HD/CA courses for the first time will have human ancestors; current research on human what is unique about the bond between people priority to do so. origins; human behavior in an evolutionary and their pups? Prerequisite: ANP 101 or ANP 120 or one BIO context. When offered, ANP 121 is the Prerequisite: one ANT/ANP/EBH/BIO course course associated laboratory component of ANP 120. at the 100-level or higher with grade of C or DEC: E DEC: E better SBC: STEM+ SBC: SNW SBC: STAS 4 credits 3 credits 3 credits ANP 304: Ecology: Linking People and ANP 121: ANP 220: Controversies in Human Nature (with emphasis on the Turkana Laboratory Biology and Behavior Basin) Laboratory exploration of the fundamentals The study of controversially debated issues With the world's longest sequence of of Biological Anthropology based on a survey in the work of Physical . datable deposits containing fossils of our of the diversity and evolutionary Surveys general aspects of and human ancestors, eastern Africa is the ideal place of humans and nonhuman primates. The behavior, human variation and adaptation, and to examine humans' changing relations with development of scientific and evolutionary the evolution of humans and human ancestors our environment. This course familiarizes thought and method. The biological basis of exploring previous and recent debates that students with diverse ecological settings in the inheritance and variation. Human variations have centered around issues such as for region today through tours and field exercises and in relation to the environment. example the concept of evolution, roles in highland forests, low-altitude grasslands, Physical characteristics and behavior of living and mating systems, role of aggression, and the and lacustrine and riparian settings. Students primates. and current role of hunting and gathering. learn various methods for paleoenvironmental research on human origins. Two hours of Advisory prerequisite: Introductory reconstruction, and practice integrating laboratory per week during which students Anthropology or Biology course different kinds of paleoenvironmental will experience the research process, methods, evidence in the field and laboratory facilities DEC: H and skills, and learn to collaborate in formal at TBI-Turkwel, Kenya. Examining modern SBC: STAS inquiry. Not for credit in addition to ANP 120 vegetation and fauna in central and northwest as offered prior to Fall 2010. 3 credits Kenya shows students how human actions Corequisite: ANP 120 can degrade or conserve environments and ANP 250: resouces in eastern Africa today. 1 credit This is an introductory survey course to the Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor/ field of forensic anthropology. Topics that ANP 201: Study Abroad office focus on the medicolegal significance of the An overview of the evolution of the human recovery and analysis of human remains will DEC: E lineage from its origins to the appearance of be covered. Postmortem taphonomic processes SBC: SNW modern humans. Our evolutionary history that can affect a body, and determination of 3 credits

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ANP 305: & Life Through Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/Study such as geochronology, paleogeography, Time: Vertebrate & Abroad office taphonomy, and paleoecology. Paleoecology (emphasis on Turkana DEC: E Prerequisite: ANP 120 Basin) SBC: SNW SBC: STEM+ Vertebrate fossils are important sources of 3 credits 3 credits information about the appearance, evolution, and extinction of major organisms. As ANP 308: Paleoanthropological Field ANP 326: Lemurs of Madagascar such, they provide a valuable window into Methods in the Turkana Basin The course explores the biology, ecology, changes in climate and selection pressures, This course is one of three that constitutes the and organisms' diverse adaptive responses to social behavior, and conservation of Turkana Basin Institute Summer Field School, Madagascar's lemurs. We will discuss these changes. They are also significant in an opportunity to participate in all aspects placing hominid discoveries within a relative case studies based on current field and of a paleoanthropological research project, captive research, in this way highlighting local chronology, and helping reconstruct focusing on practical aspects of vertebrate environments associated with hominid finds. important principles in behavior and ecology. paleontology, geology, Critical thinking on current topics in general This course acquaints students with methods of and taphonomy. Students are trained in vertebrate paleontology employed in different primate behavior will be emphasized through field reconnaissance, fossil survey, plotting, various discussion formats. The evolutionary chronological contexts of the Turkana Basin, preservation, and collection, analysis and used to solve diverse theoretical questions. continuum between humans and other primates interpretation. Hands-on examination of fossils will be explored. Throughout the course, we Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor/ from Plio-Pleistocene or Holocene sites around will pay attention to conservation threats that Study Abroad office Lake Turkana will teach students how human menace the well-being of lemur today. ancestors and other animals adapted to the DEC: E Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/Study environments around them. Experts from TBI, SBC: SNW Abroad office Stony Brook, and other institutions provide 3 credits instruction in lectures, labs, and via fieldwork SBC: STEM+ ANP 306: Human Evolution (and within the context of on-going projects. 3 credits evidence from the Turkana Basin) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/Study ANP 350: Methods in Studying Abroad office The Turkana Basin is home to many Primates paleoanthropological discoveries that SBC: STEM+ Introduction to the concepts and practical skills fundamentally reshaped ideas about human 3 credits needed to conduct scientific work, particularly evolution. Richard, Maeve, and Louise Leakey in the study of primates, including how to will share perspectives on eight of these finds, ANP 310: Environments, Ecosystems collect and analyze data focusing on habitat including Nariokotome ("Turkana boy") and and Evolution: Evidence from the description, primate densities, use of space, KNM-WT1700 (the "Black "). Lectures Turkana Basin and social interactions. Topics include design and readings for each discovery will cover: An introduction to the ways scientists use and presentation of research; ecological field 1) the research questions and strategies that the fossil and archaeological records to learn methods; behavioral observations and other led to the find; 2) the kind of analyses that about past changes in Earth's climates and techniques. Students are required to plan have yielded the most important interpretive environments, and how humanity's ancestors a small research study and to present their conclusions about the find; 3) how this responded to those changes physiologically proposal in class. Some computer work outside discovery reshaped views of the human past; and technologically. Interdisciplinary lectures class required. and 4) what new directions it catalyzed in will show evidence from the Turkana Basin's Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/Study human evolution research. Class activities paleoenvironmental, fossil and archaeological Abroad office consist of lectures by the Leakeys, laboratory records of the dynamic interactions between exercises (reconstructions, measurements) the climate, environment, local food webs, 3 credits using casts of the 5 kinds, and field trips to and ancient human populations. This ANP 351: Assessment discovery locations. background will prepare students for training Methods for Tropical Field Research Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor/ in paleoanthropological and archaeological Study Abroad office field methods. Offered in Madagascar, this intense experiential learning course is geared towards DEC: H Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor/ undergraduate students interested in field SBC: STEM+ Study Abroad office research in the tropics. Students will explore 3 credits DEC: E both the practical aspects of field biological SBC: GLO, SNW research and conceptual topics related to ANP 307: Comparing Ecosystems in 3 credits tropical biodiversity. Emphasis will be Madagascar learning to measure the species diversity, and The major goal of this course is to introduce ANP 321: Primate Evolution population density of the species of plants, the biodiversity and diversity of ecosystems The evolution of the order Primates from birds, mammals, insects, amphibians and on the island of Madagascar. In addition its origins to the appearance of the human reptiles of Madagascar. Emphasis will be to exploring the different habitats within family. Primate origins; the first primates of placed on critical thinking with regards to Ranomafana National Park, we will embark on modern aspect; origins and adaptive radiations the origins of tropical biodiversity. Practical, a ten-day trip across Madagascar. of monkeys; appearance and adaptations of hands on field techniques and methods will apes and humans. Relevant topics in geology be conducted including safety, mapping, line

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 2 ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin transect surveys, mist netting, behavioral in ongoing field projects directed by senior the determination of age, sex, stature, and observations and collecting and preserving researchers within the Turkana Basin. Upper- from skeletal remains. Students samples, photography, and measurement of division Stony Brook undergraduates who conduct a research project on a human environmental variables such climate. demonstrate readiness may undertake a skeleton. Prerequisite: appropriate interest in subject junior role within a larger project focusing Prerequisites: ANP 300; permission of matter on or (ANT instructor 399) or or vertebrate 3 credits SBC: ESI, STEM+ paleontology (ANP 399). The nature of ANT/ 3 credits ANP 360: Primate Conservation ANP 399 offerings each semester will depend on which senior scholars are conducting Review of endangered species of primates field research and whether their projects ANP 405: Human Evolution in the and case of conservation programs in are suitable for undergraduate involvement. Headlines Asia, Africa, South America, and Madagascar, They may include the opportunity to join Exploration of how anthropologists highlighting different problems and solutions. a paleoanthropological survey of ancient reconstruct the biology and behavior of Advisory Prerequisite: ANP 120 or BIO 201 landscapes for vertebrate remains (ANP 399), extinct human species. The class addresses and BIO 204 or to join an archaeological excavation of how anthropologists estimate body size in DEC: H a 4000-year-old habitation site (ANT 399). individual fossils, establish the evolutionary SBC: STAS Credit for each offering is determined for relationships among species, and determine what different species ate when they were 3 credits by the TBI faculty and is consistent for all registrants. alive, among other topics. Topics are approached by reading scientific articles and ANP 387: Independent Biodiversity Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. One reading popular accounts of anthropological Research Project in Madagascar or more of the following courses: ANP 305, discoveries and research. Students are ANP 306, ANT 304, ANT 307, GEO 303 Allows students to apply the knowledge encouraged to actively participate in class and research methods they have acquired in 3-12 credits through presentations and discussion of preceding courses during the study abroad readings. Emphasis is on developing critical ANP 401: Pastoralism under pressure: experience (including: ANP 351 Biodiversity thinking and writing skills. The goals of this Savannas, Societies, and Sustainability in Field Methods; ANP 307 Comparing class are multifaceted and include learning in East Africa Ecosystems in Madagascar; and ANP 326 modern techniques for reconstructing the Lemurs of Madagascar (3 Credits Each)). An in-depth examination of the linkages and behavior, , and biology of extinct Students will design their own research feedbacks that connect water to vegetation humans, and discerning between facts, project, and carry it through from hypothesis production, animal movement, and the analysis, and interpretation in science. Note: generating, data collection, statistical analyses economy and health of traditionally pastoralist students who have taken ANP 403 with this and written and oral presentation of results. societies in East Africa. Integrating the fields topic may not take ANP 405 for credit. This project will allow students to showcase of ecology, hydrology, biological and cultural Prerequisite: ANP 120 or ANP 201 both their interests and academic skillsets. anthropology, and sustainability studies, This course includes research on biodiversity. this course challenges students to develop 3 credits Some subjects could include impacts of human innovative approaches to promote resilience disturbance on biodiversity, species and and sustainability in savanna ecosystems ANP 406: and abundance of frogs in large streams vs small and societies. Student-driven discussion and Anthropology streams, infant development and play in lemur independent research are emphasized. Course will examine some common misconceptions, as well as deliberate frauds, groups with single infant vs lemur groups with Prerequisite: one ANT/ANP/EBH/BIO course related to the field of Anthropology. Bigfoot, two or three infants. at the 300-level or higher with grade of C or Atlantis, and ancient astronauts remain Prerequisite: appropriate interest in subject better common subjects in mainstream media, matter and background in ecology and SBC: ESI, STAS conservation but what do we, and what can we, really 3 credits know about such subjects? In this course we 3 credits will assemble a basic toolkit for skeptical ANP 403: Seminar in Biological inquiry, and apply it to several examples of ANP 391: Topics in Biological Anthropology Anthropology anthropological pseudoscience. Dissecting Research and discussion of selected topics in these cases leads to an investigation of how Discussion of a topic of current interest in physical anthropology. May be repeated as the we can distinguish truth from falsehood, physical anthropology. May be repeated as the topic changes. and knowable facts from unknowable topic changes. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor conjectures. Lastly, we will try to understand Prerequisite: ANP 120 the persistence of pseudoscience and other 3 credits Advisory prerequisite: One other ANP course forms of nonsense in our , as these 3 credits ANP 404: Human clearly thrive despite their lack of grounding in reality. A detailed study of the anatomy of the ANP 399: Advanced Field Research in Prerequisite: ANT 104, ANP 120, and either the Turkana Basin human skeleton with special emphasis on the interpretation of skeletal remains from ANP 201 or ANP 220 Intended to follow the Turkana Basin Institute archaeological contexts. Consideration is DEC: H (TBI) Field School in NW Kenya. It should given to the growth, structure, and function SBC: STAS facilitate TBI field school alumni participation of , and to forensic aspects such as

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3 credits SBC: EXP+ their experiences to the faculty sponsor and the 0 credit, S/U grading department. May be repeated to a limit of 12 ANP 407: Building Bones: Bone credits. Development and Evolution ANP 447: Readings in Biological Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor An overview of the evolution, development, Anthropology SBC: EXP+ and growth of the skeleton, with a focus on Individual advanced readings on selected 0-6 credits, S/U grading mammals, primates, and humans. Students will topics in physical anthropology. May be review fundamental bone biology concepts, repeated up to a limit of 6 credits. ANP 495: Senior Honors Project in then read and discuss classic and current Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Anthropology research on the evolution of bone development and the developmental basis for specific 3 credits First course of a two-semester project for evolutionary changes in bone morphology. anthropology majors who are candidates While much bone biology research has been ANP 475: Undergraduate Teaching for the degree with honors. Arranged in completed in animal models, this course Practicum I consultation with the department through specifically builds a foundation for students Work with a faculty member as an assistant the director of undergraduate studies, the to understand and critique current studies on in one of the faculty member's regularly project involves independent readings or the evolution and development of primate and scheduled classes. The student is required research and the writing of a paper under the human skeletal morphology. to attend all the classes, do all the regularly close supervision of an appropriate faculty assigned work, and meet with the faculty member on a suitable topic selected by the Prerequisite: ANP 120 or BIO 201 or BIO 202 member at regularly scheduled times to discuss student. Students enrolled in ANP 495 are SBC: STEM+ the intellectual and pedagogical matters obliged to complete ANP 496 the following 3 credits relating to the course. semester. Students receive only one grade Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor upon completion of the sequence ANP ANP 410: Comparative Primate 495-496. Anatomy SBC: EXP+ Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor In-depth examination of the relationship 3 credits, S/U grading 3 credits between primate anatomical form and function, with an emphasis on adaptations ANP 476: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum II ANP 496: Senior Honors Project in to locomotion and diet. Topics covered by Anthropology lecture and in-class assignments include Work with a faculty member as an assistant Second course of a two-semester project for primate musculoskeletal anatomy, natural in one of the faculty member's regularly anthropology majors who are candidates selection and adaptation, methods in functional scheduled classes. Students assume greater for the degree with honors. Arranged in morphology, primate diet and locomotion, responsibility in such areas as leading consultation with the department through and the reconstruction of behaviors in extinct discussions and analyzing results of tests that the director of undergraduate studies, the primates. Students will write a research have already been graded. The course in which project involves independent readings or proposal to investigate an area of study in the student is permitted to work as a teaching research and the writing of a paper under the primate functional morphology. assistant must be different from the course in which he or she previously served. Not for close supervision of an appropriate faculty Pre- or corequisite: ANP 300 major or minor credit. member on a suitable topic selected by the SBC: ESI, STEM+ student. Students receive only one grade upon Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor 3 credits completion of the sequence ANP 495-496. SBC: EXP+ Prerequisite: ANP 495 ANP 444: Experiential Learning 3 credits, S/U grading SBC: EXP+ This course is designed for students who 3 credits engage in a substantial, structured experiential ANP 487: Independent Research in learning activity in conjunction with another Biological Anthropology class. Experiential learning occurs when Independent research projects carried out by ANT knowledge acquired through formal learning upper-division students. The student must and past experience are applied to a "real- propose the research project, carry it out, Anthropology, Cultural and world" setting or problem to create new analyze the data, and submit the results in a Archaeology knowledge through a process of reflection, written form acceptable to the sponsor. May be critical analysis, feedback and synthesis. repeated up to a limit of six credits. ANT 102: What Makes Us Human? Beyond-the-classroom experiences that Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor The analysis of social and cultural topics such support experiential learning may include: SBC: EXP+ as , family, marriage, politics, and service learning, mentored research, field religious systems, with an emphasis on their work, or an internship. 0-6 credits particular expression in non-Western societies. Prerequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent; ANP 488: Internship in Biological DEC: F permission of the instructor and Anthropology approval of the EXP+ contract (http:// SBC: GLO, SBS Participation in state, local, and national sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/bulletin/current/ 3 credits public and private agencies and organizations. policiesandregulations/degree_requirements/ Students are required to submit written EXPplus.php) ANT 103: Archaeology for a Better progress reports and a final written report on World

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An exploration of archaeology's contributions the Viking Age. We will study Neanderthal around the world; and 4) Exploring different to current issues of global concern. and modern human interactions, the ritual viewpoints about climate change today. Archaeologists assist enforcement, systems of Palaeolithic cave painters, the DEC: H promote environmental conservation efforts, Atlantic societies that built megalithic SBC: STAS challenge popular misconceptions about monuments, the beginnings of agriculture, human health and biology, and more. This the Mycenaean culture that became Europe's 3 credits course explores archaeology's contributions first civilization, and the Northern European to contemporary law, health, , and "vikings" and "barbarians" who terrorized ANT 230: Peoples of the World environmental conservation. It also examines Rome and inherited post-classical Europe. A comparative study of the lifeways of how politicians and others use archaeology The purpose of the course is to critically selected types of peoples, defined by for their own ends. Topics include forensic examine a number of themes and topics, such adaptation, focusing on their ecology, archaeology, paleodiets, climate change, as subsistence adaptations, island settlement, economy, political organization, and social and Native-, African- and Asian-American trade, metallurgy and other technologies, rise organization. Groups discussed include heritage. of complex societies, early states, writing, the gathering-and-hunting Ju/'hoansi of religion and mortuary practices, women Africa, the horticultural Kaluli of New SBC: GLO, SBS in ancient , etc., emphasizing the Guinea, the pastoralist Basseri of Iran, plus 3 credits similarities and differences within areas of selected peasant and migrant groups. Recent Europe. changes affecting indigenes, brought about by ANT 104: Archaeology Advisory Prerequisite: ANT 104 technological developments and intercultural What is archaeology? How does it work? contact, are discussed. DEC: F Archaeology studies human behavior Prerequisite: ANT 102 using remains of the past, everything from SBC: GLO DEC: J trash to art and from burials to buildings. 3 credits SBC: SBS+ Archaeologists examine artifacts, human remains, animal bones, landscape patterns, and ANT 208: Zombiology: What the 3 credits more. Students learn essential concepts and Walking Dead Can Teach Us About methods that archaeologists use to investigate Real Humans ANT 250: African Today life in the past. Zombie have become very popular Africa hosts diverse cultures, environments, in culture and media over the past several languages, and economies. This course DEC: F years. Many aspects of modern zombie lore, as explores Africa via the voices of SBC: SBS represented in books, movies, and television Africans themselves, and observations by 3 credits programs such as The Walking Dead, are anthropologists who have spent many years germane to understanding important issues on the continent. Case studies of societies in ANT 200: Contemporary and Historical in current affairs, science, and other topics different regions examine how environments Perspectives on Insular Southeast Asia of anthropological interest. In this class, we and economies shape cultural traditions and The history, politics, and cultures of Indonesia, will use scenes from zombie media as prisms social values. We also consider how African Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, East through which to examine topics such as the societies have transformed in response to Timor, and Brunei. Special attention is spread of infectious disease in our globalized challenges such as the slave trade, , given to the religious ideas and rituals, and densely populated world, predation on and globalization. and relationships of power throughout the humans, forensic analysis of DEC: J archipelago. The largest country by far in the like tooth and cut marks, the collapse of SBC: GLO region, Indonesia, receives most attention. civilizations, human behavior in small band 3 credits DEC: J societies, violent conflict, etc. SBC: GLO, SBS+ DEC: H ANT 260: How We Eat 3 credits SBC: STAS This course explores how people's food 3 credits habits are shaped not only by their biological ANT 203: Native Americans needs, but also by the economic, political, The various peoples and cultures of North ANT 215: Climate and Culture ecological, and social worlds in which they America are studied with respect to their Climate change is one of the most important live. The breadth of anthropology (biological political, educational, linguistic, social, and issues facing humans today, but its nature anthropology, , and cultural patterns. Selected societies are studied and causes are debated. Interpreting and archaeology) is brought to bear on issues in depth. projecting past, present, and future changes including the economic and political Advisory Prerequisite: ANT 102 in climate, pinpointing their causes, and underpinnings of American as well as other food cultures; the relationship between food DEC: J understanding their effects on ecosystems and habits and health (both over-and under- SBC: DIV, GLO human societies, is extremely challenging. This course acquaints students with the eating); the environmental impacts of 3 credits intricacies of climate change debates by 1) various methods of food production; the Explaining natural causes of climate change; relationship between food and social status; ANT 207: From Cavemen to Vikings: 2) Examining past interactions between gendered food production as well as food The Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe climate and human land use; 3) Probing consumption; food's role in religion; ethical Explores the of Europe from the evidence for recent anthropogenic climate eating; the limits of current knowledge (e.g., arrival of the first humans until the end of change and effects on different populations changing dietary recommendations); and the

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 5 ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin socioeconomic pressures that keep individuals tuning their behavior to new and challenging ANT 307: Prehistoric Archaeology of eating according to cultural norms. The class habitats. None of these dispersals failed. The Africa (with emphasis on the Turkana discusses foodways in a variety of present and course explores these prehistoric dispersals' Basin) past cultures, but the emphasis is on modern implications for our evolutionary future. Tools changed early humans from one among American food culture and the cultural, Formerly offered as ANT 373. Not for credit in many African primates to the equivalent of economic, ecological, and political realities addition to ANT 373. a global geological force. Stone tools and that shape it. Students will explore how these SBC: SNW other technologies enabled early hominins realities affect their own lives and eating to become the first organisms that could 3 credits habits. purposefully change their environment to suit DEC: K ANT 277: The Origins of Art their needs. This course traces the development SBC: SBS, USA of human technology where it first appears, in Humans make art, and art is all around us. Eastern Africa, more than 3 million years ago. 3 credits The magnificent prehistoric paintings of Course topics include the cognitive abilities of multicolored horses, bison, and humans at early humans implied by their technologies, ANT 268: Archaeology of Human the Lascaux and Altamira caves were created Origins early human adaptation and social behavior, by artists living 30,000 years ago - but what and the inter-relationships between stone A survey of the archaeological evidence for came before it, and why did humans or their tool technology, paleoecology, and hominin behavioral variability and adaptation by early ancestors start being artistic? We will explore biological evolution. Lectures and practical humans during the course of the Pliocene, this chronologically, examining cave art exercises teach students how to document and Early-Middle Pleistocene epochs (2.7-0.1 and other early creative works, including the archaeological record and how to use it to million years ago). Topics include early stone bird-bone musical instruments, carved ivory test hypotheses about early human behavior. tool use, origins of hunting, early fire use, figurines, shell ornaments, and older more Field excursions teach archaeological survey adaptations to glacial climates, behavioral disputed symbolic artifacts. Placed in broader and excavation techniques. Students conduct differences among hominins living in Africa, archaeological context, we will learn about research and report their findings in writing Europe, and Asia. Previously offered as ANT prehistoric cultures and debate the shamanistic, and in oral presentations. Evaluation is based 368; not for credit in addition to ANT 368. ecological, and hunting theories advanced to on quizzes, a final exam, group projects, a Advisory Prerequisite: ANT 104 account for early art. research paper, and participation. This course DEC: E DEC: D is taught in Kenya during the Turkana Basin SBC: SNW SBC: ARTS Institute Field School Study Abroad program. 3 credits 3 credits Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor/ Study Abroad office ANT 270: Great Archaeological ANT 290: Science and Technology in DEC: H Discoveries Ancient Society SBC: SBS+, SPK King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt, the Examination of the role of advances in science 3 credits mountain city of Machu Picchu in Peru, and and technology in societies ranging from the the Terracotta Army of the first Chinese earliest humans to the archaic civilizations of ANT 311: Immersion in Another Culture Emperor still thrill and mystify the world, the Old and New Worlds. The course focuses A specific world area, such as the highlands more than a century after discovery. This on such innovations as tool making, fire, of New Guinea or the Nilotic Southern class will unlock the secrets of these and metallurgy, writing, mathematics, complex Sudan, or a particularly well-documented other famous archaeological sites, including architecture, and relates these innovations to people such as the Trobriand Islanders, the stone circles of Stonehenge, the ancient changes in sociopolitical organization. are considered in detail. Lectures, texts, ruins of Pompeii and the recently uncovered DEC: H and films consider ecology, history, social grave of King Richard III. We will explore SBC: STAS change, language, cultural systems, and social scientific methods and cutting-edge forensic 3 credits arrangements toward providing students with techniques used today by archaeologists to a comprehensive understanding of another reconstruct past events. The global perspective ANT 305: Culture and Language of cultural system. May be repeated as the topic of this class will illuminate our shared past and changes. cultural heritage. Madagascar The major goal of this course is to introduce Prerequisite: ANT 102 Advisory Prerequisite: ANT 104 students to the Malagasy culture. Students will DEC: J DEC: F attend formal classes with native Malagasy SBC: DIV, SBS+ SBC: GLO, SBS speakers meet with local community and 3 credits 3 credits school groups, and attend a variety of cultural activities within the towns and villages that ANT 315: Following in Darwin's ANT 273: The Unstoppable Species? surround RNP. Footsteps: Winter in Ecuador & the A survey of the archaeological, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/Study Galapagos paleontological, and genetic evidence for Abroad office Follow along 's voyage of prehistoric human geographic dispersals SBC: GLO, SBS+ discovery on the Beagle and development of starting in Africa more than 200,000 years 3 credits evolution via by combining ago and culminating in settlement of remote 5 days in the Galapagos with cultural and Pacific Islands. Humans populated most prehistoric site visits in mainland Ecuador. of the world during prehistoric times, fine- This course will integrate both social and

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 6 ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin biological science and expose participants African archaeology is reshaping global aspects of food, particularly its roles in to the idea that scientists are always living debates on the origins of agriculture and past power structures, social relationships, and working within specific societal and civilization. This course examines the conceptions of identity, ritual practices, and historical contexts. The various environments prehistoric economic foundations of Africa's gender roles. Also covers the theoretical and visited and discussions with local experts complex societies: intensive hunting methodological approaches archaeologists use will expose students to ongoing issues in and gathering, early herding, and plant to study food in the past. climate change, environmental degradation, domestication. Detailed case studies of ancient Prerequisite: ANT 104 and conservation efforts. This course is part of civilizations (Egypt, Aksum, Jenne, Swahili, SBC: SBS+, SPK a Study Abroad program and does not require and Great Zimbabwe) reveal distinct processes any prerequisites. of prehistoric social change in different parts 3 credits of Africa. Students consider the implications of SBC: DIV, STAS archaeology for African heritage conservation, ANT 360: Ancient Mesopotamia 3 credits research, and public education. This course is The organization and development of the offered as both AFS 355 and ANT 355. social, economic, political, and religious ANT 321: Archaeological Field Methods systems of ancient Mesopotamia through study Prerequisites: One 100-level course in AFS or An opportunity to participate in all aspects of of the archaeological and textual records. This ANT an archaeological research project. Students course stresses the first two thousand years of are trained in excavation, recording, artifact DEC: J this civilization, from 3500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. retrieval, surveying, field sorting techniques, SBC: GLO, SBS+ DEC: J and interpretation. This course is usually held 3 credits SBC: GLO, SBS+ in the summer and involves excavation of a prehistoric or early historic site. ANT 357: The Agricultural Revolution 3 credits The origins and consequences of agrarian Prerequisites: ANT 104; permission of ANT 363: Approaches in Archaeology instructor (food-producing) adaptations. Examination of the social, technological, and ecological A survey of archaeological thought from early SBC: SBS+ changes that occurred when humans shifted antiquarianism through the culture history, 3-6 credits from hunting and gathering to agriculture and processual, and post-processual approaches pastoralism around 8000 years ago. Current to the investigation and analysis of past ANT 350: theories about the origins and consequences societies. Emphasis is placed on the ways An introduction to the cross-cultural of agro-pastoralism are evaluated in light in which changes in archaeological theory study of health, illness, and curing. Topics of recent evidence from both Old and New reflected changes in ideas within the sister covered include the human body as cultural Worlds. fields of , cultural anthropology and construct, theories of illness causation, . Other topics discussed include Prerequisite: ANT 104 alternative medical systems, , ethnographic analogy, systems theory, site ethnopharmacology, cross-cultural psychiatry, DEC: F formation processes and spatial analysis. SBC: ESI, SBS+ sex and reproduction, , and the Prerequisite: ANT 104 implications of culture for pain perception, 3 credits DEC: F stress, and health risk management. ANT 358: The Origins of Social SBC: SBS+ Prerequisite: ANT 102 Inequality: First Cities 3 credits DEC: F What led our ancestors to move from the SBC: SBS+ safety of small intimate communities to large, ANT 367: Male and Female 3 credits anonymous cities and to what extent were A study of the manifestation of sex roles these societies similar in their development in different cultures. Discussion topics ANT 351: Comparative Religion and structure? What were the ingredients that include the impact of social, economic and A survey of religious behavior in cross- led to the world's first state societies, and were political organization on gender roles and cultural perspective. The approach is broadly these transformations beneficial or detrimental relationships, sexual orientation in cross- comparative and eminently anthropological, to the larger population? Why do we refer cultural perspective, and contemporary involving theories of origin and evolution of to them as civilizations; were they, in fact theories of gender inequality. Readings present religious systems, as well as the functioning civilized? This course explores these questions both the male and female viewpoints. of religious behavior and institutions within through an examination of the archaeological DEC: F the total culture. Case study material is drawn and written records of the early civilizations in SBC: ESI, SBS+ primarily from preliterate societies, but some Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, reference is made to the large organized Mesoamerica and Peru. 3 credits religious systems of complex stratified Prerequisite: ANT 104 societies. ANT 371: Ancient China DEC: J Prerequisite: ANT 102 Explores the development of social, economic, SBC: GLO, SBS+ political, and cultural systems in ancient DEC: F 3 credits China, from the neolithic period through SBC: SBS+ the Han dynasty. Draws on archaeological 3 credits ANT 359: The Archaeology of Food data and historical texts to examine the Explores the archaeological study of food emergence of state-level polities and their ANT 355: Ancient African Civilizations and foodways. The emphasis is on the social subsequent unification under imperial

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ANT 372: Family, Marriage, and Kinship ANT 380: Race and Ethnicity in Latin Prerequisite: ANT 102 in China America and the Caribbean DEC: F Examines forms and dynamics of social Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity SBC: SBS+ organizations in Chinese society, focusing in Latin American and Caribbean settings. 3 credits on cultural, social, and economic aspects The historical evolution and the contemporary of family, marriage, and extended kinship social and cultural significance of racial ANT 391: Topics in Social and Cultural relations such as lineages, clans, and sworn and ethnic identities within the region are Anthropology brotherhoods. Particular attention is paid explored. Specific examples of social relations May be repeated as the topic changes. to how gender, generation, class, and ritual characterized by ethnic or racial conflict are exchange shape identity, status, and power. presented. This course is offered as both AFS Prerequisite: ANT 102 This course is offered as both AAS 372 and 380 and ANT 380. DEC: F ANT 372. Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing SBC: SBS+ Prerequisite: ANT 102 Advisory Prerequisite: AFS 240 or LAC 200 3 credits Advisory Prerequisites: AAS 220 and ANT 354 DEC: J DEC: J SBC: GLO, SBS+ ANT 393: Topics in Archaeology SBC: SBS+ 3 credits Topics in archaeology are taught from a social 3 credits sciences perspectives. Recent topics have ANT 381: included: Origin of Modern Humans, Advent of the Iron Age, Old World Archaeology, and ANT 377: Animal Tool Use A practical, career-oriented examination of Ancient Egypt. May be repeated as the topic Tool use and manufacture was once believed how anthropological theory and method can changes. to be uniquely human and the distinctive be put to use in non-academic areas such hallmark of human cognitive advancement. as economic development, , Prerequisites: ANT 104 and one other The discovery that some non-human animals, environmental conservation, education, anthropology course including birds, are capable tool users and technology development, cultural advocacy, DEC: F in some cases tool makers offers exciting business, and law. Coordinated readings SBC: SBS+ opportunities to examine such behaviors provide case illustrations. 3 credits in living species. It opens up important DEC: F implications for understanding animal SBC: SBS+ ANT 394: Topics in Archaeology intelligence, the emergence of culture and the Topics in archaeology are taught from a social supposed uniqueness of our own species. This 3 credits sciences perspectives. Recent topics have class provides an overview of animal tool use included: Origin of Modern Humans, Advent and manufacture to compare and contrast the ANT 387: Independent Cultural of the Iron Age, Old World Archaeology, and behavior of humans and animals. Research Project in Madagascar Ancient Egypt. May be repeated as the topic Allows students to apply the knowledge changes. DEC: E and research methods they have acquired in SBC: ESI, SNW preceding courses during the study abroad Prerequisites: ANT 104 and one other 3 credits experience (including: ANP 351 Biodiversity anthropology course in Field Methods; ANP 307 Comparing DEC: F ANT 379: Ethnicity and Ecology in Ecosystems in Madagascar; and ANP 326 SBC: SBS+ China Lemurs of Madagascar-3 credits each). 3 credits This course explores issues of ethnic and Students will design their own research national identity in the context of the social project, and carry it through from hypothesis ANT 399: Advanced Field Research in ecology of the Chinese state, both past and generating, data collection, statistical analyses the Turkana Basin present. It focuses on the material and social and written and oral presentation of results. Intended to follow the Turkana Basin Institute relationships that have shaped perceptions of, This project will allow students to showcase (TBI) Field School in NW Kenya. It should and interactions between, cultural groups in both their interests and academic skillsets. facilitate TBI field school alumni participation China and along its frontiers. Drawing on case The subject of this research will be based in ongoing field projects directed by senior studies from the Himalayan plateau, Yunnan in human communities. Most research will researchers within the Turkana Basin. Upper- highlands, Inner Asian steppes, Taiwan, and be questionnaire-based. Some projects will division Stony Brook undergraduates who elsewhere, students examine how sustenance include data collection. Subjects can include demonstrate readiness may undertake a

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 8 ANTHROPOLOGY (ANT) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin junior role within a larger project focusing Prerequisite: ANT 102 and ANT 104. An The study of animal bones from archaeological on archaeology or human ecology (ANT introductory biology course (BIO 113, BIO sites. Special emphasis is on the identification 399) or paleoanthropology or vertebrate 115, or BIO 201) may substitute for one of the of fragmented bone and surface modification, paleontology (ANP 399). The nature of ANT/ ANT courses. calculation of indexes of abundance, and ANP 399 offerings each semester will depend SBC: SBS+ measurement and metrical analysis of on which senior scholars are conducting mammal bone. Computer analysis is stressed, 3 credits field research and whether their projects and the class seeks a fusion of traditional are suitable for undergraduate involvement. ANT 415: zooarchaeology and actualistic studies. Three They may include the opportunity to join to four hours of computer laboratory work a paleoanthropological survey of ancient Ethnoarchaeology uses observations of required per week. landscapes for vertebrate remains (ANP 399), present-day peoples to inform archaeological inquiry, based on analogies between past Prerequisites: ANT 104 or ANP 120; or to join an archaeological excavation of permission of instructor a 4000-year-old habitation site (ANT 399). and present. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will develop their ability Advisory Prerequisite: One other archaeology Credit for each offering is determined for course by the TBI faculty and is consistent for all to construct and evaluate such analogies. SBC: SBS+ registrants. Using this skill, they will then explore ways in which ethnoarchaeological data contribute to 3 credits Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. One archaeological research: hypothesis building, or more of the following courses: ANP 305, survey and excavation strategies, interpretation ANT 444: Experiential Learning ANP 306, ANT 304, ANT 307, GEO 303 of site and artifact data, and understanding This course is designed for students who 3-12 credits the causes and processes of human behavioral engage in a substantial, structured experiential change. In addition to seminar discussions learning activity in conjunction with another ANT 401: Problems in Social and of theoretical issues and case studies, the class. Experiential learning occurs when Cultural Anthropology course incorporates practical exercises in the knowledge acquired through formal learning Research and discussion of a selected topic surrounding community. and past experience are applied to a "real- in social and cultural anthropology. May be Prerequisite: ANT 104; ANT major or minor world" setting or problem to create new repeated as the topic changes. SBC: ESI knowledge through a process of reflection, Prerequisite: ANT 102 critical analysis, feedback and synthesis. 3 credits Advisory prerequisite: Two other ANT courses Beyond-the-classroom experiences that at the 200 level or higher ANT 417: Primitive Technology support experiential learning may include: 3 credits service learning, mentored research, field An introduction to the technology of work, or an internship. hunter-gatherers. The course examines how ANT 402: Problems in Archaeology archaeologists use both and Prerequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent; Research and discussion of a selected topic experimentation to shed light on prehistoric permission of the instructor and in the prehistory of the Old and New Worlds. human technological adaptations. Techniques approval of the EXP+ contract (http:// May be repeated as the topic changes. for making and using primitive tools are sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/bulletin/current/ Prerequisite: ANT 104 practiced. policiesandregulations/degree_requirements/ EXPplus.php) Advisory prerequisite: Two other archaeology Prerequisite: permission of the instructor courses SBC: EXP+ SBC: ESI, TECH SBC: ESI, SBS+ 0 credit, S/U grading 3 credits 3 credits ANT 447: Readings in Anthropology ANT 418: Stone Tools in Human ANT 410: Ethnobotany and Evolution Individual advanced readings on selected topics in anthropology. May be repeated up to A detailed overview of the methods a limit of 6 credits. Explores relations between plants and people, archaeologists use to extract behavioral both in present (ethnobotany) and prehistoric information from prehistoric stone tools. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor (paleoethnobotany, archaeobotany) times. The course examines raw material economy, 3 credits Because ethnobotany and paleoethnobotany technological strategies, tool use, and discard are interdisciplinary fields, we will draw on behavior. Analytical methods are practiced ANT 458: Speak Effectively Before an several contributing fields of study, including through the computer-assisted analysis of tools Audience , cultural anthropology, archaeology, from simulated archaeological sites. A zero credit course that may be taken in conservation. Students will be trained in Prerequisite: ANP 120 or ANT 104 with grade conjunction with any ANP or ANT course that botanical and social data collection methods of C or better and one other ANT/ANP/EBH provides opportunity to achieve the learning in ethnobotanical research and will focus on course at 200 level or higher with grade of C outcomes of the Stony Brook Curriculum's paleoethnobotanical data collection/analysis: or better SPK learning objective. archaeobotanical recovery methods, and Pre- or corequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent; principles of curation, identification, and SBC: ESI, SPK, TECH permission of the instructor interpretation. Knowledge of ethnobotanical/ 3 credits paleoethnobotanical methods will allow SBC: SPK students to evaluate major works during the ANT 419: Zooarchaeology 0 credit, S/U grading final weeks of the course.

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ANT 459: Write Effectively in Participation in local, state, and national Anthropology public and private agencies and organizations. A zero credit course that may be taken in Students are required to submit written conjunction with any 300- or 400-level ANP or progress reports and a final written report on ANT course, with permission of the instructor. their experiences to the faculty sponsor and the The course provides opportunity to practice department. May be repeated up to a limit of the skills and techniques of effective academic 12 credits. writing and satisfies the learning outcomes of Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor the Stony Brook Curriculum's WRTD learning SBC: EXP+ objective. 0-6 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: WRT 102; permission of the instructor ANT 495: Senior Honors Project in SBC: WRTD Anthropology 0 credit, S/U grading First course of a two-semester project for anthropology majors who are candidates ANT 475: Undergraduate Teaching for the degree with honors. Arranged in Practicum I consultation with the department through Work with a faculty member as an assistant the director of undergraduate studies, the in one of the faculty member's regularly project involves independent readings or scheduled classes. The student is required research and the writing of a paper under the to attend all the classes, do all the regularly close supervision of an appropriate faculty assigned work and meet with the faculty member on a suitable topic selected by the member at regularly scheduled times to discuss student. Students enrolled in ANT 495 are the intellectual and pedagogical matters obliged to complete ANT 496 the following relating to the course. Students may not serve semester. Students receive only one grade as teaching assistants in the same course twice. upon completion of the sequence. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor SBC: EXP+ 3 credits 3 credits, S/U grading ANT 496: Senior Honors Project in Anthropology ANT 476: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum II Second course of a two-semester project for anthropology majors who are candidates Work with a faculty member as an assistant for the degree with honors. Arranged in in one of the faculty member's regularly consultation with the department through scheduled classes. The student is required the director of undergraduate studies, the to attend all the classes, do all the regularly project involves independent readings or assigned work, and meet with the faculty research and the writing of a paper under the member at regularly scheduled times to discuss close supervision of an appropriate faculty the intellectual and pedagogical matters member on a suitable topic selected by the relating to the course. In ANT 476, students student. Students receive only one grade upon assume greater responsibility in such areas as completion of the sequence. leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students Prerequisite: ANT 495 may not serve as teaching assistants in the SBC: EXP+ same course twice. 3 credits Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor SBC: EXP+ 3 credits, S/U grading

ANT 487: Independent Research in Anthropology Independent research projects carried out by upper-division students. May be repeated up to a limit of six credits. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor SBC: EXP+ 0-6 credits

ANT 488: Internship

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