Syllabus: Human and Tutorial Assignments

Caleb L. Fry and Lauren T. Rios Department of Anthropology Lake Tahoe Community College One College Drive South Lake Tahoe, California 96150 USA Faculty Advisor: Daryl G. Frazetti Abstract

Stone, Tanya Lee, “The Good, The Bad and The Barbie: History and Impact on Modern Culture.” Viking Juvenile (2010)

Anthropologists are continuously exploring the far corners of the world in search of answers to how everything came to be and the process by which we as humans appeared on this planet. This is a difficult task and therefore, there are many branches of anthropology which strive to discern the pieces of the puzzle from different perspectives and approaches. Through the implementation of the scientific method, anthropologists have tested numerous hypotheses to create theories like the Theory of Evolution. First documented by Darwin, natural selection, the process by which a more fit individual survives and passes on their adaptive traits, has been discovered to play a crucial role in the evolution of

The article on ‘Bioarchaeology’s Geeky Side’ discusses how bioarchaeologists follow a genetic trail which helps them reconstruct reproduction patterns as well

Review: Lieberman, L. (2001). How “Caucasoids” Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank: From Morton to Rushton, Current Anthropology,42 (1): 69-95.

Knudson KJ, Williams SR, Osborn R, Forgey K, Williams PR. 2009. The geographic origins of Nasca trophy heads using strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope data. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28:244–257.

In October of 2016 I participated in a community function that changed my life, my future goals, and made me a more knowledgeable and confident person. As a Teen Science Scholar in the earth sciences department, last summer, I was given life changing opportunity to go to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual international conference, to interact with the best paleontologists of the day and to present my own findings. After working for months with DMNS scientists to move and organize collections, micropick and sort fossils, study osteology, dig for mammal fossils from the Miocene in

Conkey, M.W. and Spector, J.D. (1984) ‘Archaeology and the Study of Gender,’ Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7:1–38.

The Paleolithic humans who created the art in the Chauvet Cave are some of the world’s earliest historians. Capturing the imagery of the animals of their time has broadened the modern human understanding of a time lost. The true purpose of the Chauvet Cave will never be known but many inferences have been made since the discovery.

Prior to entering Introduction to Archaeology I had almost no knowledge about hominin evolution. The only idea I had about hominin evolution is the single line of an ape that evolves into a human. For me personally I did not see the relevance of hominin evolution, I believed that evolution did happen, for example; Darwin's findings on the Galapagos Islands with how finch beaks change depending on the diet. I believe that evolution does occur, what I struggled with was the hominin evolution. Prior to class

About two years ago, scientists spelunked their way through the “Rising Star Cave” in Johnanesburg, South Africa, hoping to find fragments of the creatures who had lived there eras before. They found more than they had ever imagined—more than 1,550 bones in a one square yard area—and soon realized that the specimens seemed humanlike. They’d discovered an ancient human ancestor.

There are moments when a student stays up extremely late working on their homework, a project, or studying for a test. They are consistently wishing for additional time to complete their tasks and assignments. Schools, over the course of the years, have developed a schedule and has added an extra period called Tutorial. Tutorial is usually used in a block schedule. Instead of having six periods, students are now having seven altogether, but depending on a school policy the conditions of Tutorial may vary. The time for each class is deducted by a few minutes and this is used to construct a tutorial period. Tutorial is a period where students get to spend their time working on their homework. It is a period which lasts about a total of one hour. Tutorial allows students the ability to go to a class of their choice, especially a class they need help in. Teachers are also allowed send or request students to a class to makeup a test or missing work. During a tutorial period, students are allowed to work on their homework, study for an upcoming test, or ask a teacher for help. Tutorial is not a period where students get to only work on their homework, but they also get to communicate with their teachers, classmates, and friend for help with school work. Students in tutorial also talk with

Anthropology proves to be satisfying and intellectually fulfilling to many in the field. However, there are also many challenges and bumps in the road along the way. Napolean A. Chagnon and Claire Sterk faced many of these challenges themselves.

The first article will focus in assembling a comprehensive dataset of the available Paleo-Central American archaeological corpus. Specifically, it will: (1) generate a preliminary descriptive synthesis of the various Paleoamerican sites; (2) analyze lithic typologies, describe the assemblages of the isthmus and compare them to South and North American technocomplexes; (3) submit the lithic data to the to Paleoindian Database of the Americas (http://pidba.utk.edu/maps.htm); and (4) document potential culturally modified late Pleistocene megafaunal remains in the region. The compilation of information will be conducted through bibliographic review, first hand documentation of museum and private collections available, visits to available

Anthropology is not a word that crosses people’s minds very often, and when it does, it is most often associated with treasure-hunting and dinosaurs. Those who have a vague idea of what anthropology – that is, the study of human past and all that entails – and its subfield, archaeology is, often think of both as one-dimensional fields, when in reality, they are so much more. Anthropology is a multi-disciplinary field of study combining various sciences, social and otherwise, to work together to paint a complete picture of humankind, one of the most complex species to ever walk on the planet, while archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. It is, therefore, ridiculous to assume that such a tall order can be accomplished by any single discipline. One of the most significant methods of verifying information in anthropology is chemical analysis, which can be used in a variety of ways. This essay will compare and contrast the use of analytical methods to investigate the bronze artifacts associated with the Xiongnu and pre-Xiongnu period with those used to analyze the chemical compositions of volcanic rocks for adze production in late precontact Hawaiian archaic states and what the findings imply. Both analyses use energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy to determine the chemical contents of the artifacts to understand their