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300105 VO Human Evolution and Archaeological Science (2024W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Moodle

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Language: German, English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

1. Prüfungstermin 29. 01. 2025 13:15-14:00

  • Wednesday 09.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 16.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 23.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 30.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 06.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 13.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 20.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 27.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 04.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 11.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 08.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 15.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 22.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0

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Aims, contents and method of the course

The course is designed as “Ringvorlesung”, meaning that 11 different speakers per semester will introduce aspects of their special fields (11 other speakers will talk in summer semester). All topics have in common that they are important in the context of human evolution and archaeological science, as it is realized in our research network HEAS. We target this course to all interested students from all branches of study to induce thinking across borders and interdisciplinary work. The winter semester course will include Human Evolution, Virtual Anthropology, Radiometric Dating, Geoarchaeology, Micro-Archaeology, Behaviour Genetics, Evol. Demography, Human Ecology, Paleogenetics, Human Life History, Osteology, Archaeology, Metal Technologies, Palaeontology, Palaeodiversity, Archaeological Prospection, and Digital Archaeology. The course is a lecture designed as front-of-class teaching.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written test (multiple choice). No aids allowed.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Understanding the current topics, problems and methods in the fields of evolutionary and archaeological research as they were presented in the lecture.

1 (excellent) 100-85%, 2 (good) 84.99-75%, 3 (satisfactory) 74.99-65.0%, 4 (sufficient) 64.99-50.0%), 5 (not sufficient) <50.0%.

Examination topics

Attend lectures, taking notes, study lecture slides (Moodle) and bibliographic references given by the lecturers.

Reading list

Weber, G. W. 2023. Quantum Leaps in Human Biocultural Evolution and the Relationship to Cranial Capacity. Life 2023, 13, 1030.
Hershkovitz, I, Weber G. W. et al. 2018. The earliest humans outside Africa. Science 359, 456-459.
Weber, G.W. 2015. Virtual Anthropology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 156: 22-42.
Sykes, N. 2014. Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Baker, P., Worley, F. 2019. Animal Bones and Archaeology https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/animal-bones-and-archaeology/animal-bones-archaeology-handbook/

Bogin, B., Varea, C., Hermanussen M., Scheffler C. 2018. Human life course biology: A centennial perspective of scholarship on the human pattern of physical growth and its place in human biocultural evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165: 834-954.
Schwartz G.T. (2012). Growth, Development, and Life History throughout the Evolution of Homo. Current Anthropology 53: S395-S408.

Edward J. Kormondy, Daniel E Brown: Fundamentals of Human Ecology. 1998.
Gerald G. Marten: Human Ecology. 2001.
Frederic Steiner: Human Ecology. How NAture and Culture shape our World. 2016.

Association in the course directory

BAN 2, BBO 8, BMB 10, BMG 10, BOE 11, BPB 11, BZO 11

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