Neanderthal DNA

Read article above

Based on the article answer (using data) the following questions.

1. How old are neanderthal?

• what did their migration pattern look like? (where and when did they arrive, travel, stay)

2. Did Neanderthal admix with modern human?

• Where and when did this happen?
• What evidence supports your statement?

Using the smithsonian website what other archeological evidence supports your claims

Email me your response

Neanderthal in the media

1. Create a list of terms that you associate with the human relative Neanderthal.
2. Do a google image search and create a graphic that represents how you believe the public perceives Neanderthal
3. For each of the stereotypes presented with either the list you have created or from the images you have chosen to use attempt to find evidence that would refute or rewrite our understanding (misunderstanding?) of Neanderthal.

You are to work in small groups (no more then 4) and turn in your product at the end of the period.

24 hour news cycle assignment

Create a popular media artifact that "exposes" the life of one of the early hominins.

This work can be done in the following groupings

solo
Groups of 2 or 3

For each person in the group a unique artifact must be created

The following "rock stars" of the early hominins are the subject of your "investigative reporting"

• Sahelanthropus tchadensis
• Ardipithecus ramidus
• Orrorin tugenensis
• Austrolopithicus anamensis
• Austrolopithicus afarensis
• Kenyanthropus platyops
• Australopithicus garhi
• Paranthropus aethiopicus
• Paranthropus boisei
• Australopithicus africanus
• Paranthropus robustus
• Homo habilis

Information that needs to be imbedded into the project includes all relevant, physical, geological, evolutionary, taxonomic, biological,ecological, anthropological evidence that explains the importance of your specific example in understanding early hominins role in our own evolutionary history.

Make sure you draw connections to other hominins as well as a thorough explanation of the researchers that are credited with the find(s)

What is Human?

1. Read the handout given in class

• Answer the following questions

1. What are the key features that define Hominins? 
2. How did those key features change over time?
3. Did these features all evolve at the same time? What pattern of evolution did these features follow?
4. How were Humans traditionally classified? What is the correct term for humans?
5. What is biocultural evolution? Give 3 examples  

2. Technology # 4
Research how stone tools are made.
Each of the following archeological industries has their own unique method for stone tool production. Your fieldbook report should follow the following format.

• General description of the types of lithic reduction techniques
• Percussion reduction
• Projectile percussion
• Bipolar percussion
• Hard Hammer percussion
• Soft Hammer percussion
• Indirect percussion
• Pressure Flaking
• Identify the type of material that would have been appropriate for stone tool production.
• Include both the type of stone being made into the tool as well as the types of material used by the creator to do the work of making the tool.
• Description of how each industry was unique. Include specific examples for each industry including the location, time, and culture that used the industry type.
• Oldowan
• Acheulean
• Mousterian
• Aurignacian
• Microlithic
• Neolithic

Geologic timeline lab Assessment

Using the timeline your group created answer the following questions.

1. How much older is Earth than you?

2. How would you help a kindergarten student understand the age of the Earth?

3. How do scientists determine when an eon, era, or period begins and ends?

4. When did the greatest extinction event occur on Earth? How?

5. What triggered the beginning of the Cenozoic era?

6. How did photosynthesis change Earth’s atmosphere? Why was this one of the most significant events in Earth’s history?

7. What evolutionary adaptation allowed for life on land?

8. In your opinion, what was the most crucial geological or biological event for the evolution of humans?

9. What evidence have scientists used to answer these kinds of questions?

10. Why is it important for scientists (and us) to study the history of the Earth?

Technology #3

Technology #3

Technology- Research the fishing technologies of the following groups

 A. The Inuit
B. The Yanomamo
 C. Inca





 Include in your description in addition to the other questions we normally use.

 1. the tools they used and how to make them.

2. The food preservation/ cooking techniques.

trading card assignment

Trading card assignment