Cameron M. Smith - Anthropology For Dummies

8 Part 4: So What? Anthropology, the Modern World, and You Chapter 17: Kiss or Kill? Diversity, Conflict, and Culture The Anthropology of Conflict and Conflict Resolution Globalization and Human Culture Chapter 18: Looming Disasters? From Overpopulation to Space Debris The Only Constant Is Change Overpopulation Climate Change Say What? The Loss of Linguistic Diversity Food and Water Availability/Famine Disease Space Debris Your New Home on Mars! Issues of Space Settlement Chapter 19: Eve and the Iceman: The Cutting Edge of Physical Anthropology Molecular Anthropology DNA and the Mitochondrial Eve Neanderthals and You: The Neanderthal Genome The Iceman Chapter 20: Stonehenge and You: Why Archaeology Matters History Is Written by the Winners: The Importance of Archaeology Conversation Stoppers? Archaeology and the Unknown

9 Part 5: The Part of Tens Chapter 21: Ten Things to Remember About Anthropology, Whatever Else You Forget The Use of Tools Separated Behavior from Anatomy We’re Not Just Like Apes, We ARE Apes Nobody Knows Why Hominids First Walked Upright (Yet) Everyone Is in the Human Race Civilization is Brand-New There Are Many Ways to be Human Culture Doesn’t Ride on Genes Language and Metaphor Are the Keys to Human Success Absolutely, There Are No Absolutes There is No Ladder of Progress Chapter 22: Ten Great Careers for Anthropology Majors Academic Anthropology Cultural/Human Resources Forensic Anthropology Crime Scene Investigation Primate Biology Primate Ethology Diplomacy Museum Work Library Science Contract Archaeology Chapter 23: Ten (Or So) Great Anthropologically Themed Movies and Books Cave of Forgotten Dreams Once We Were Warriors The Places in Between Gorillas in the Mist Neanderthal Quest for Fire Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Maps and Dreams Dances of Life Chapter 24: The Top Ten Myths about the Human Past All Human Societies Evolved in the Same Direction Prehistoric Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short Ancient People Were Perfectly in Balance with Nature Farming Is Easier and Better than Foraging Ancient Monuments Had Just One Purpose “Primitive Technology” Was Limited Cave Art Was about Men Hunting Animals It’s Nature or Nurture History Repeats Itself Having Reached a Peak, Human Evolution Has Ended

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1 Chapter 17TABLE 17-1 American War Deaths

1 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: Anthropology as a four-field discipline. FIGURE 3-2: Evolution as the result of replication, variation, and selection. FIGURE 3-3: Author’s rendering of drawings in John Bulwer’s work on gesture in ...

2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: An early primate. My reconstruction is based on the fossil evidence...FIGURE 4-2: The Primate order. FIGURE 4-3: Sketches of the main varieties of primates. FIGURE 4-4: Comparison of the dental formula of a New World monkey and an Old W...FIGURE 4-5: The main types of locomotion. FIGURE 4-6: Global distribution of primates today.

3 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Archaeologists examining stratigraphy at a site on the lower Columb...FIGURE 5-2: A site grid in use on a burial mound in northern Kenya. FIGURE 5-3: Some of the most common ways to work bone, stone, antler, and wood ...

4 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: The main anatomical features of bipedal locomotion, compared with q...FIGURE 6-2: The main factors involved in early hominin evolution. FIGURE 6-3: The main hominin species’ crania. FIGURE 6-4: Timeline showing the relationships of the early hominins. FIGURE 6-5: My reconstruction of a robust australopithecine. FIGURE 6-6: My reconstruction drawing of specimen WT15000, “Turkana Boy,” an ea...

5 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: A sketch of the “Lion Person” figurine from the Holenstein-Stadel c...FIGURE 7-2: Comparison of typical Neanderthal and modern human anatomical featu...FIGURE 7-3: A reconstruction of a Neanderthal. FIGURE 7-4: A comparison of the Mithen and Donald models of the origins of the ...

6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: Overview of the spread of AMHss after 100,000 years ago. FIGURE 8-2: The size of a modern human and the early peoples of Flores Island, ...FIGURE 8-3: The ice-free corridor and coastal migration hypothesis. FIGURE 8-4: Native Arctic Winter Village reported by Europeans exploring Canada...FIGURE 8-5: A Polynesian voyaging canoe.

7 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: The main centers of early domestication, with some domesticates not...FIGURE 9-2: Egyptian shaduf irrigation tool in modern times. FIGURE 9-3: Typical features of an early farming village.

8 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Sumerian clay tablet, an example of durable record-keeping. FIGURE 10-2: The Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt in an early 19th century engravin...FIGURE 10-3: Timeline of the ancient civilizations. FIGURE 10-4: World map of the ancient civilizations. FIGURE 10-5: Durations and fates of world civilizations to present.

9 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Women of Myanmar wearing traditional clothing and body ornamentati...

10 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: A 19th-century painting of Native Americans by George Catlin.

11 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: Gestural or physical communication. FIGURE 13-2: Diagram of human language anatomy. FIGURE 13-3: Diagram of modern languages and their relations.

12 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Worldwide human skin color map. FIGURE 14-2: Genetic relationships between modern human populations, adapted fr...

13 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Kinship diagram for a simple nuclear family. FIGURE 15-2: Women working in an aircraft factory during World War II, when lar...

14 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: Human life is lived in the overlap between the material and ethere...FIGURE 16-2: A Goldi (native Russian) shaman and assistant in the 19th century....FIGURE 16-3: Modern distribution of world religions.

15 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: Kenyah natives of Borneo engaged in a warfare ritual. FIGURE 17-2: Modern military aircraft able to bomb at great distance from its h...

16 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: Human population growth in the last 10,000 years. FIGURE 18-2: Artist’s conception of a civilization-ending space debris impact w...FIGURE 18-3: An artist’s conception of the interior of a space colony from 1977...

17 Chapter 20FIGURE 20-1: Assyrian warfare depiction in bas relief from the 7th century BC.

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