04328 - Paleoanthropology

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 8016)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will acquire when and where the hunam evolution occurred trhoughout the fossil record and the cultural manifestations of the prehistoric humans.

Course contents

- time and space of the human evolution; - evolutive models; - human skeletal anatomy and comparison with the Primates; - Bipedalism and cerebral evolution; - Evolution of the Primates and phases of the human evoltuion; - environments, technology and life style of the prehistoric humans.

Readings/Bibliography

slides od the lessons

Manzi G. L'evoluzione umana. Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and laboratories and exercitation at the Museum of Anthropology

Assessment methods

oral examination

Teaching tools

Computer projector, PC, laboratory hands-on, visit at the Museum of Anthropology

Links to further information

http://www.bioarcheologia.it

Office hours

See the website of Maria Giovanna Belcastro