Sub-Topics Evolution Mummies Prehistoric Art Also Try Ancient Civilizations Ancient History Archaeology Lesson Plans Anthropology Lessons (Information Institute of Syracuse) Provides lessons by grade level. 1-04 Lists Cleveland Museum of Art Provides anthropology resources. Pre-History of the Americas (Christian Science Monitor) "New finds from Oregon and Chile support the idea that they arrived 3,000 years earlier than previously thought." News -07-19-05 Writing 5,000 Years Old Found (MSNBC News) "Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” on the site of the oldest city in the Americas, indicating that the device, a sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings used to convey detailed information, was in use thousands of years earlier than previously believed." 7-05 -10-20-05 Oldest Mummy Found in Peru (ABC News) "Archeologists have uncovered the remains of the oldest mummy ever found in Peru's capital, Lima — a high-ranking official of the Huari tribe who lived about 1,300 years ago, researchers said on Wednesday." 10-05 -11-20-04 Humans Natural Long Distance Runners (ABC News) "From our spring-loaded ligaments to our muscular behinds to our ability to sweat, the human body took the ideal shape of a long-distance runner starting some 2 million years ago, the researchers say. The long, lean build helped us scavenge widely scattered kills and could also have been an advantage when hunting down prey over long distances." 11-04 -12-20-05 Stone Tools Found 200,000 Years Earlier in Europe (Scientific American) "Now archaeologists have discovered proof that ancient humans lived there too—some 200,000 years earlier than they were believed to have penetrated northern Europe." 12-05 02-04-04 Kinnewick Man - Court Rules Ancient North American Can Be Studied (BBC News) "A US appeals court has given permission to scientists to study a 9,000-year-old skeleton - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes." "Appeal judges ruled it was impossible to establish a relationship between the Indian tribes and 'Kennewick Man'." 2-04 Papers -Defining Anthropology (Crow Canyon Archaeology Center - Lightfoot) "Anthropology is the study of humans, especially their physical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics and social relationships. Archaeology is a sub-field of anthropology." 6-02 5,000 Year-Old Sahara Graves Found (Time.com) "The researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine when these ancient people lived there. Even the most recent were some 1,000 years before the building of the pyramids in Egypt." "The first group, known as the Kiffian, hunted wild animals and speared huge perch with harpoons. They colonized the region when the Sahara was at its wettest, between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago." "The researchers said the Kiffians were tall, sometimes reaching well over 6 feet." "The second group lived in the region between 7,000 and 4,500 years ago. The Tenerians were smaller and had a mixed economy of hunting, fishing and cattle herding." 08-08 Anthropology Glossary (About.com - Christensen) Provides a glossary of key terms and concepts in anthropology. Terms are described with essays elaborating important issues. 2-01 One of Earth's Last Uncontacted Tribes Photographed (DailyMail.com) "Thought never to have had any contact with the outside world, everything about these people is, and hopefully will remain, a mystery." 05-08 Simulation Study: Common Ancestor of All Living Humans Lived "Recently" (ABC News) "Allowing very little migration, Rohde's simulation produced a date of about 5,000 B.C. for humanity's most recent common ancestor. Assuming a higher, but still realistic, migration rate produced a shockingly recent date of around 1 A.D." 07-06 Solutreans (Wikipedia.org) "The Solutrean industry was an advanced flint tool making style of the Upper Palaeolithic." "It is named after the type-site of Solutré in the Mâcon district, Saône-et-Loire, eastern France and appeared around 19,000 BCE. The makers of Solutrean-style tools used techniques not seen before and not rediscovered for millennia. They also made ornamental beads and bone pins as well as creating prehistoric art." "They produced relatively finely worked, bifacial points using pressure flaking rather than cruder flint knapping. This method permitted working of delicate slivers of flint to make light projectiles and even elaborate barbed and tanged arrowheads." 03-06

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