to Know
Keeping Time: How Archaeologists Date Finds
Saving Space: How Archaeologists Keep Track of Where Artifacts Are Found
Type Casting: How Archaeologists Classify Their Finds
Chapter 6: Bones of Contention: The Fossil Evidence for Early Human Evolution
Great Africa: The Earliest Hominins
Stand and Deliver: The Riddles of Bipedalism
All the Same from the Neck Down: The Australopithecines
The Cracked Mirror: Early Homo
The Traveler: The Accomplishments of Homo erectus
Chapter 7: It’s Good to Be Home: Homo sapiens sapiens, Our Biological Species
Distinguishing Modern Homo sapiens sapiens (That’s You!)
Africa: The Cradle of Humanity
Out of Africa: An Epic Dispersal
The Origins of Language: The Social Grooming Theory
The Origins of the Modern Mind
Chapter 8: Hunting, Fishing, Sailing, and Sledding: The Dispersal of Humanity Worldwide
Dispersal and Survival: The Decoupling of Behavior from Biology
The Earliest Settlement of Australasia
Another Grand Exploration: The Colonization of the New World
Igloos, Dogs, and Whalebone Knives: The Colonization of the Arctic
The Voyage of Ru and Hina: The Colonization of the Pacific
High Altitude People: Early Settlement of the Tibetan Plateau
Big-River People: Early Settlement of the Amazon and Congo Basins
Desert People: Early Settlement of the Sahara
Chapter 9: Old, Old McDonald: The Origins of Farming
The Principle of Domestication
Principles of Horticulture
Principles of Farming
Looking Back on the Origins of Farming
The Early Farming Village
The Making of Man’s Best Friend: the Early Domestication of Dogs
Chapter 10: The Development of Civilization
Human Subsistence and Social Organization
The Characteristics of Civilization
Charting the Rise and Fall of the First Civilizations
Civilization Today: Will It Fall, Too?
7 Part 3: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics Chapter 11: The Spice of Life: Human Culture Demystifying the Definition of Culture What Culture Is and What Culture Isn’t Cultural Universals Having an Out-of-Body Experience Opening Your Human Behavior Owner’s Manual Getting Your Cultural Education From Mop-Tops to Mötley Crüe: What Is Cultural Change? Cultural Evolution Chapter 12: From Kalahari to Minneapolis: How Cultural Anthropologists Work Watching Cultural Anthropology Grow Up A More Personal Approach: Emic Research Considering Recent Developments Striving for Accuracy Going into the Field: Getting Prepared for Less-Than-Ideal Conditions Chapter 13: Can We Talk? Communication, Symbols, and Language Exploring the Complexity of Human Language Ready to Swear: How the Human Mind Is Hard-Wired for Language Watching Human Language Evolve Chapter 14: Types of Types: Race and Ethnicity The Kinds of Humanity: Human Physical Variation Why Is Everyone Different? Human Cultural Variation Chapter 15: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Identity, Family, Kinship, and Gender Am I “Cameron” or “a Smith”? The Scales of Human Identity A Family Affair Kinship Sex and Gender Kinship and Gender Worldwide and through Time Age and Stage of Life Chapter 16: Not at the Dinner Table! Religion and Politics What Is Religion? The
