Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

(NOTE: All chapters conclude with Summary, Glossary Terms, Critical Questions, Internet Exercises, and Suggested Reading.)

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. What Is Anthropology?
2. How We Discover the Past.

II. HUMAN EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL.

3. Genetics and Evolution.
4. The Living Primates.
5. Primate Evolution: From Early Primates to Hominoids.
6. The First Hominids.
7. The Origins of Culture and the Emergence of Homo.
8. Homo erectus and the Origins of Language.

III. MODERN HUMANS.

9. The Emergence of Homo sapiens.
10. The Upper Paleolithic World.
11. Origins of Food Production and Settled Life.
12. Origins of Cities and States.
13. Human Variation and Adaptation.

IV. USING ANTHROPOLOGY.

14. Applied and Practicing Anthropology.
15. Medical Anthropology.

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