PřF:Bi8610 Palaeoanthropology - Course Information
Bi8610 Palaeoanthropology
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, DrSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Malina, DrSc.
Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, DrSc. - Timetable
- Mon 10:00–11:50 Bp1
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Anthropology (programme PřF, M-BI)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Physical Antropology)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Socio-Cultural Antropology)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-AN)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BC)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BC, specialization Fyzická antropologie)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BC, specialization Sociokulturní antropologie)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BI)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BI, specialization Physical Antropology)
- Anthropology (programme PřF, N-BI, specialization Socio-Cultural Antropology)
- Course objectives
- The main objective of the course is to review the phylogenesis and the taxonomy of Hominidae in their environmental and social contexts. At the end of the course the student should be able to: explain the rhytm of climatic changes at the end of the Tertiary and throughout the Quaternary; describe the morphological evolution of the Hominids; interpret the expansion of human populations in time and space; explain the process of adaptation to the newly settled environments. The students should also be able to name and describe the classical paleoanthropological finds from Moravia.
- Syllabus
- 1. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Hominidae
- 2. Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene enviroments: Review of the sediments and the climatical record
- 3. Origin and adaptation of Hominids in Africa (Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecinae, Homo habilis)
- 4. Colonisation of Eurasia (Homo ergaster, H. erectus, H. antecessor, H. heidelbergensis).
- 5. The Neanderthals: example of an archaic human adaptation in the Eurasian zone.
- 6. Modern humans: origin of a new population in Africa and its expansion in the other continents; problem of the „Human Revolution“.
- 7. The Gravettian population in Moravia: example of modern human adaptation in the glacial environments of Danubian Europe.
- 8. The Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial, origin and expansion of the Magdalenian.
- 9. Environmental changes during the Holocene, human adaptation and demographic growth, impact of plant and animal domestication.
- Literature
- HENKE, Winfried and Ian TATTERSALL. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. 1st ed. Berlin: Spronger Verlag, 2007, 2173 pp. ISBN 978-3-540-32474-4. info
- Early modern human evolution in Central Europe : the people of Dolní Věstonice and Pavlov. Edited by Erik Trinkaus - Jiří A. Svoboda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ix, 489. ISBN 019516699X. info
- FRIDRICH, Jan. Ecce Homo : svět dávných lovců a sběračů. 1. vyd. Praha: Krigl, 2005, 320 s. ISBN 8086912043. info
- Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie : modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie a "příbuzných" oborů. 19, Paleolit a mezolit: Pohřební ritus. Edited by Jaroslav Malina. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana, 2003, 128 s. : i. ISBN 80-210-3182-4. info
- MELLARS, Paul. The neanderthal legacy :an archaeological perspective from western Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, xix, 471 s. ISBN 0-691-03493-1. info
- BENEŠ, Jan. Člověk (Human). 1st ed. Praha: Mladá Fronta, 1994, 343 pp. ISBN 80-204-0460-0. info
- JELÍNEK, Jan. Velký obrazový atlas pravěkého člověka. Praha: Artia, 1977, 557 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical preparation in form of lectures complemented with class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- The course is concluded with an oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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