ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Prognathism, Bipedalism, Thermoluminescence

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Francois Larose

Document Summary

Dendrochronology - based on growth of tree rings (similar to varves, remember). Thermoluminescence - good for things that have been burnt in fire like pottery. Uranium series dating - some of them don"t go beyond 2 million years. It is what is found in relation to other things, piecing together what exactly happened. --------------------------------this ends the section for the midterm on friday---------------------------------- exam: 50% on lecture, 50% on test. Read what is posted on the course website. The first group of primates to stand up and walk on two feet are our first human ancestors (hominid). 1 we are looking for the first evidence of a species who can walk upright habitually as their normal mode of locomotion. The first bipedal incesters are only 3 and half feet tall or so. 3 gradual reduction in sexual dimorphism. female and male body height/weight becoming more equivocal. 4 increase in the size of the brain compared to body size.