B3853 - PALEOANTROPOLOGIA (4 CFU)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • 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)

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

Life on land

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.