New Perspectives on Agricultural Origins in the Ancient Near East
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult_sci/anthro/lost_tribes/agriculture.html
This site discusses the development of farming and herding in the Khabur Basin of ancient Mesopotamia.
Rock-Links!!!
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2384/links.html
Links to over 200 rock art homepages.
Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines
http://cmsu2.cmsu.edu/~Idm4683/1.htm
An illustrated paper by Prof. Le Roy McDermott exploring the hypothesis that the Upper Paleolithic "Venus" figurines are women's views of their own bodies.
Stone Age Man Wasn't So Dumb
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Blombos.html
As described here, South Africa's Blombos Cave may have produced evidence of complex culture that predates the European Upper Paleolithic.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm
A nicely illustrated site describing the recently discovered painted cave in the Ardeche region of France.
2000 World Population Data Sheet
http://www.prb.org/pubs/wpds2000
Maintained by the Population Reference Bureau, this site provides current information on the global human population and projections of growth.
Understanding the Biology of Behavior
http://www.runet.edu/~lridener/courses/SOCBIO.HTML
http://galton.psych.nwu.edu/greatideas/sociobiology/aggression.html
Read a definition and explanation of sociobiology and an essay by its founder, Edward O. Wilson, and explore the issue of human aggression. What are some strengths and weaknesses of sociobiology for understanding the evolution of human behavior?
Evolutionary Psychology
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep
Take a tutorial on evolutionary psychology via links from the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Read "Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer" by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, and listen to the audio clip, "Has Natural Selection Shaped How Humans Reason?" According to this perspective, how could both prosocial behavior, such as gift giving and altruism, and antisocial behavior, such as aggression and homicide and warfare, have adaptive value for human evolution?
