- Docente: Maria Giovanna Belcastro
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/08
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Maria Giovanna Belcastro (Modulo 1) Rita Sorrentino (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 5823)
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from Apr 15, 2024 to May 24, 2024
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from Apr 29, 2024 to May 24, 2024
Learning outcomes
The student will know times and places of human evolution and cultural manifestations of prehistoric man.
Course contents
- Human evolution
- Macroevolution and microevolution
- Modern human skeletal variability
- Environment, technology and lifestyle of humans in prehistory
- Cultural innovations of the human evolution - lithic technologies, fire domesticarion, dietary changes, sociality, funerary behaviors
- Methods of studying current and fossil human skeletal variability
Readings/Bibliography
Manzi G. Ultime notizie sull'evoluzione umana. Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
Teaching methods
frontal lessons
Assessment methods
oral exam
Teaching tools
PC, videoprojector
Office hours
See the website of Maria Giovanna Belcastro
See the website of Rita Sorrentino
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.