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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry
Patricia C. Rice, West Virginia University
Norah Moloney, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

ISBN-10: 0205381960
ISBN-13: 9780205381968

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 496 pp
Status: Out of Print

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Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past.

Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory , this text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues, involving students in the scientific thought process by allowing them to draw their own conclusions. Pat Rice, a recipient of AAA’s Outstanding Teacher Award and past-president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA, and Norah Moloney, an experienced professor and active archaeologist, present the material in a clear, refreshing, and straightforward writing style. Amidst discussions of bones and artifacts, the text maintains a focus on people, demonstrating to students how biological anthropology and archaeology apply to their lives today.   Featuring the latest research and findings pulled from the original sources, this new text is far and away the most up-to-date text available.  In addition, the superior art program features hundreds of photographs and figures, and the multimedia presentation options include documentary film clips and lecture launcher videos.

  • Complete and up-to-date coverage that includes the latest finds and highly current and original source citations throughout.
  • Insightful analysis of the key questions in both these fields help students grasp their implications, consider the evidence and arrive at their own conclusions.
  • Presents biological anthropology and archaeology/prehistory as distinct areas , respecting the different methods and content of each while summarizing the culture and biology of each chapter's time period.
  • “Highlight” boxes in each chapter show the relevance of current issues in bioanthropology and archaeology to today's world and provide applications of the key principles in each chapter.
  • Takes a “lumper” approach which allows for only as many species and names that students need to understand the material, allowing students to focus on the key information and avoid being overwhelmed by the technical nature of the subject matter. 
  •  A concluding chapter summarizes the “stages” of human evolution and discusses the nature of “cultural evolution” versus biological evolution, giving pros and cons for equating the terms.
  • Recipient of AAA's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999, Pat Rice is the immediate past president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA and co-director of the Institute for Teaching Anthropology.

Each chapter concludes with “Chapter Summary,” “Key Words” and “Suggested Readings,” and “References.”

1. Introduction to Anthropology and Methods for Studying Humans in the Past.

Introduction to Anthropology.

The Scientific Method.

Common Sense, Science, and Religion.

Archaeological Evidence.

How Archaeologists Find Evidence.

Analysis of Artifacts.

Biological Evidence.

Dating Artifacts and Fossils.

Box 1.1. In the Alps with the Ice Man.

Box 1.2 In the News at Ozette Village.

Box 1.3 In the News: The African American Burial Ground in New York City.



2. Principles of Biological Evolution.

What is Evolution?

The Tempo of Evolution.

The Causes of Evolution.

What Really Evolves.

Box 2-1. In Mendel's Garden.

Box 2.2. In the Galapagos Islands with Darwin and His Finches.

Box 2.3. In the News: Iceland and the Human Genome.



3. Macroevolution: First Life Through Non-Human Primates.

Principles of Reconstructing Macroevolution and Common Ancestral Groups.

Macroevolution.

The Emergence of Primates.

Primate Evolution.

Primate Behavior.

Box 3.1. In the Field and Museum with the Burgess Shale.

Box 3.2. In the Fayum Depression.



4. Early Hominids in Africa: Ardipithecus, Australopitchecus, Homo Habilis

What is a Hominid?

Hominid Trends.

Taxonomy and How Many Hominids.

The First Potential Hominids.

The Genus Australopithecus.

Enter the Genus Homo.

Box 4.1. In the Field with Don Johanson.

Box 4.2: In the News with the Piltdown Forgery.

Box 4.3 The Other Evolving Sex.



5. Later Hominids: Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens.

Home erectus: The Controversy and the Species.

From H. erectus to H. sapiens.

Early Archaic H. Sapiens.

Late Archaic H. Sapiens (Neandertals).

Enter Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH).

The Evolution of Speech.

Behaviorally Modern Humans (BMH).

Box 5.1. In Africa with Nariokotome.

Box 5.2. In the News with the Portugese Kid.



6. Modern Primates.

Primatology.

Overview of Modern Primates.

Case Studies of Modern Primate Species.

Modern Monkeys.

Modern Apes.

Endangered Primates.

Box 6.1 Checking Out Chimpanzee Culture.

Box 6.2 In the Field with those Sexy Bonobos.



7. Modern Humans.

The Last 50 kyr in the Old World.

Native Americans: Facts and Controversies.

General Trends of Modern Humans.

Human Biological Variation in the Year 2004.

A History of “Race” in America: From Biology to Culture.

Human Adaptation.

Applied Biological Anthropology.

Forensic/Legal Anthropology.

The Future of the Human Species.

Box 7.1 In the News: Identification of Josef Mengele.

Box 7.2. We Are What We Were, Or Are We?



8. The Emergence of Culture in Early Hominid Societies: 2.6 MYR To 12 KYR.

The Environmental Background.

The Evidence: Climate and Artifacts.

Early Hominid Society: The Early Stone Age and Lower Palaeolithic (2.6 MYR to 250 KYR Ago).

Human Adaptations in the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age.

Humans Across the Globe: Life Between 40 and 10 KYR.

Box 8.1 Understanding Stone Tools.

Box 8.2. Paleolithic Art in Eurasia.

Box 8.3 The Peopling of Australia and the Pacific.



9. Later Hunter Gatherers and Early Farming Societies in the Old World.

The Changing Climate of the Early Holocene.

Hunter-Gatherers of the Early Holocene.

Subsistence Practices of Early Holocene Groups.

The Emergence of Farming in Old World Neolithic Societies.

Agriculture in Europe.

Farming in China.

Pastoralism and Cultivation in Africa.

Social Complexity among Farming Communities.

Box 9.1. Genes, Languages, and Farmers.

Box 9.2. Pottery and Archaeology.



10. The Emergence of State Societies.

Mesopotamia.

The Early Egyptian State.

State Societies of the Indus.

The Shang State of Northeast China.

Early States in Tropical Africa.

Jenne-Jeno and Urban Complexity in the Middle Niger.

Concluding Comments on Early States.

Box 10.1 Oppida-Celtic Centers of Temperate Europe.

Box 10.2. The Emergence of Writing in the Old World.



11. Later Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farming Societies in the Americas.

Note on Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates.

Colonization of the Americas.

The Clovis Phenomenon.

Hunting, Foraging and Fishing in the Holocene: Archaic Cultures.

The Eastern Woodlands.

The Great Basin.

Hunter-Forager-Fisher Groups of the Northwest Coast of North America

Foraging, Fishing and Hunting Groups of California.

The Development of Agriculture.

Agriculture in Central America: The Mexican Element.

Domesticated Species in South American Andes.

Agricultural Societies in Eastern North America.

Hopewell Agricultural Communities.

Agricultural Societies in Southwest North America.

Subsistence Practices in the Southwest.

Hohokam.

Mogollon.

Anasazi.

Box 11.1 Cahokia, Crown of Prehistoric Mississippian Chiefdoms.

Box 11.2 Animal Extinctions.



12. The Emergence of State Societies in the Americas.

Early Mesoamerican States.

The Olmecs: Chiefdom or State.

The Maya.

City Planning at Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Early States in South America.

Moche.

Tiwanaku-State and Early Empire?

Wari: State and Early Empire.

Powerful Empires of the New World: The Aztecs and Incas.

The Aztec Empire.

The Inca Empire.

Box 12.1 Calendars and Writing in Mesoamerica and South America.

Box 12.2 Ancient Agricultural Methods and Modern Farmers in Peru.



13. Conclusions: What Is It To Be Human?

    Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past. 

    • Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, this text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues, involving students in the scientific thought process by allowing them to draw their own conclusions. 
    • Amidst discussions of bones and artifacts, the text maintains a focus on people, demonstrating to students how biological anthropology and archaeology apply to their lives today.  
    • Featuring the latest research and findings pulled from the original sources, this new text is far and away the most up-to-date text available.  In addition, the superior art program features hundreds of photographs and figures, and the multimedia presentation options include documentary film clips and lecture launcher videos.

    Pat Rice, a recipient of AAA’s Outstanding Teacher Award and past-president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA, and Norah Moloney, an experienced professor and active archaeologist, present the material in a clear, refreshing, and straightforward writing style.

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PAT RICE grew up in Rochester, New York. Her broad education began with a degree in international studies at Ohio State University. Her interests later turned to anthropology. In graduate school at OSU, she continued her generalist focus by training in cultural and biological anthropology. She later studied archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, now part of University College London. Her primary research area is in European prehistoric art: Venus statuettes, bone art, and cave art. She has led a number of Smithsonian trips to Spain and France with a focus on cave art. More recently, she has turned to writing and editing about teaching anthropology. She co-edited The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions (1997: Mayfield) with Conrad Kottak, Richard Furlow, and Jane White, co-edits with David McCurdy the biannual Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (Prentice-Hall: 2000, 2002, 2004), and recently co-edited with Philip Salzman and co-authored four articles in Thinking Anthropologically: A Practical Guide for Students (Prentice-Hall 2004). In 1991, she and David McCurdy inaugurated the journal General Anthropology, sponsored by the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). She writes a semi-annual column titled “Paleoanthropology” that provides synopses of the major fossil and artifact finds during the previous six months. Pat is the immediate past president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA. In 1999, she won the American Anthropological Association’s Outstanding Teacher Award. She has taught at Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and West Virginia University, where she currently is an Eberly teaching professor.

 

NORAH MOLONEY originally trained in England as a school teacher but developed an interest in archaeology during extended trips throughout the world. She undertook undergraduate work at Harvard University, Boston, and continued her graduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where she has taught since 1994. She also currently lectures in archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has taught other archaeology courses at London Metropolitan University, Oxford Brookes University, and at school venues for the nonspecialist public. Norah greatly enjoys working with students and the general public, whose participation and enthusiasm, she firmly believes, reinforce and stimulate her own understanding and knowledge of archaeology. Norah’s research interests are directed primarily toward stone tool analysis, with a particular–although not exclusive–emphasis on the Paleolithic. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork projects in France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Jordan, Kazakstan, and Armenia. Her publications include papers and edited books. The most recent, with co-editor Michael J. Shott, is Lithics at the Millennium (Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 2003).

Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past.

Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, the text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues, involving students in the scientific thought process by allowing them to draw their own conclusions.

The authors, Pat Rice and Norah Moloney, are accomplished instructors in the fields of biological anthropology and archaeology, and bring extensive expertise and knowledge into the writing of this text. Recipient of AAA's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999, Pat Rice is the immediate past president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA and co-director of the Institute for Teaching Anthropology.

Special Features

  • Complete and up-to-date coverage includes the latest finds and relies upon highly current sources throughout.
  • Presentation of biological anthropology and archaeology/prehistory as distinct areas, respecting the different methods and content of both fields while relating the biology and culture to each chapter's time period.
  • Insightful analysis of the key questions in both these fields help students grasp their implications, consider the evidence, and arrive at their own conclusions.
  • “Highlight” boxes in each chapter show the relevance of current issues in bioanthropology and archaeology to today's world and provide applications of the key principles in each chapter.
  • A “lumper” approach to presenting only essential species and names allows students to focus on the key information and avoid being overwhelmed by the technical nature of the subject matter.
  • A concluding chapter summarizes the stages of human evolution and discusses the nature of cultural evolution versus biological evolution, giving pros and cons for equating the terms.
  • TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: A media-rich, visually stimulating website for students and instructors, The Anthropology Experience, reinforces core anthropology content through additional textual material, images, PowerPoint lectures, National Geographic videos, and more. FREE ACCESS is available with the purchase of a new Rice/Moloney, Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry, text. Visit www.ablongman.com/riceinfo for more information.

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