ANTH300 Introduction to Physical Anthropology Instructor: Jim Snoke

Spring Semester, 2007

Course Outline and Reading List

Text: Essentials of Physical Anthropology, Sixth Edition. Jurmain, et al.

Week 1, Chapter 1: Introduction to the field of Anthropology, Pages 2 – 22

a. Anthropology defined

b. Subfields within Anthropology

c. Introductory terms and concepts:

1.hominid

2.Hominidae

3.bipedal

4.species

5.primate

6.evolution

7.culture

8.biocultural evolution

9.adaptation

10.anthropology

11.cultural anthropology

12.ethnography

13.ethnology

14.urban anthropology

15.medical anthropology

16.economic anthropology

17.applied anthropology

18.archaeology

19.artifact

20.material culture

21.cultural resource management

22.linguistic anthropology

23.physical anthropology

24.biological anthropology

25.natural historian

26.paleoanthropology

27.anthropometry

28.genetics

29.primatology

30.primate paleontology

31.Osteology

32.Paleopathology

33.forensic anthropology

34.scientific method

35.data

36.quantitative analysis

37.hypothesis

38.scientific testing

39.theory

40.ethnocentric

41.continuum