This page presents a set of vocabulary sheets that outline the key terms, concepts and characters covered in lectures, plus assorted handouts. Note that some vocabulary sheets are used for several lectures in a row.
FYI sheets (PDF) (This document has a compiled list of emailed handouts and communications that were circulated to the students before or after lectures as background and/or follow-up information on questions and points raised in specific lectures.)
Course lectures.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
VOCABULARY SHEETS |
HANDOUTS |
| 1-2 |
Introduction: The Search for Human Ancestors, Approaches to the Study of Human Evolution and an Introduction to Human Osteology |
Sheet 1 (PDF)
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| 3-4 |
Evolutionary Processes and Time Scales |
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| 5 |
Modern Primates and their Relevance to Understanding Human Origins |
Sheet 2 (PDF) |
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| 6 |
Tertiary Higher Primates: Our Pre-Hominid Predecessors |
Sheet 3 (PDF) |
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| 7-8 |
Earliest Hominids: The Australopithecines and Affines |
Sheet 4 (PDF) |
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| 9 |
Early Hominids - Variations and Taxonomy - Presentations |
Sheet 4 (cont.)
Sheet 5 (PDF)
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| 10 |
Hominid/Human Origins: Hypotheses and Speculation |
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| 11 |
Early Homo: How Should Homo Be Defined? |
Sheet 6 (PDF) |
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| 12-13 |
The Archaeology of the Early Hominids I: Olduvai Gorge and Koobi Fora |
Sheet 7 (PDF) |
Handout 1 (PDF)
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| 14 |
The Archaeology of the Early Hominids II: Interpreting Early Hominid Behavior and Current Research Directions |
Sheet 7 (cont.) |
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| 15 |
Midterm Exam |
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| 16 |
Homo ergaster and erectus: Emerging Modern Morphology |
Sheet 8 (PDF) |
Handout 2 (PDF) |
| 17 |
Slowly Emerging Modern Behaviors: Early Stone Age / Lower Palaeolithic Age |
Sheet 8 (cont.) |
Handout 2 (cont.)
Handout 3 (PDF)
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| 18 |
Homo heidelbergensis and neanderthalensis or Early "Archaic" H. sapiens? |
Sheet 9 (PDF) |
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| 19-20 |
"Archaics": Not Quite Us Physically, Not Quite Us Mentally |
Sheet 9 (cont.)
Sheet 10 (PDF)
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Handout 4 (PDF) |
| 21 |
Origin of Modern Homo sapiens : Morphology and Genetic Evidence |
Sheet 11 (PDF) |
Handout 5 (PDF)
Handout 6 (PDF)
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| 22-23 |
Modern Homo sapiens I: Cultural Diversity Becomes the Norm |
Sheet 11 (cont.)
Sheet 12 (PDF)
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| 24 |
Modern Homo sapiens II: To the Threshold of Civilization |
Sheet 13 (PDF) |
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| 25-26 |
Modern Human Diversity: Distribution, Morphological Variation and "Races" |
Sheet 13 (cont.) |
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