Prehistoric Cultures -- University of Minnesota Duluth

Video Schedule CE

Fall 2012

Anth 1602 05:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M., M
Cina 214

for Tim Roufs' section

visual anthropology

Anthropology Videos and DVDs at the UMD Library

Archaeology and Classical Studies Videos and DVDs in the UMD Library

Video materials used in class illustrate many topics covered in this course. Consider these presentations similar to lab sessions, that is, watch them carefully and critically rather than simply watch another movie or video. The exams will include these materials, and it will be assumed that you have paid critical attention to them.

On Order:

Week

Day

No.

Title

Week 1 — Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to Prehistoric Cultures

Monday
10 Sept
2012

UM DULUTH Library Multimedia F2520.1.Y3 Y36 2004 DVD

Yanomamö: A Multidisciplinary Study
(45 min., 1970, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia F2520.1.Y3 Y36 2004 DVD)
- Controversy: Darkness in El Dorado

Week 2 — The Development of Prehistoric Cultures
History of Thought

Monday
17 Sept.
2012

GN281.4 .S42 2006 DVD

The Search for Adam
(51 min., 2005, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281.4 .S42 2006 DVD)

Week 3 — Heredity and Evolution / Variation and Adaptation
"Heredity and Evolution"
"Modern Human Variation and Adaptation"
"Maroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution"

Monday
24 Sept.
2012

QH431 .P377 2008 DVD

Patterns of Variation
(28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QH431 .P377 2008 DVD)

Monday
24 Sept.
2012

GN281 .J687 2003 DVD

Journey of Man. . .
(120 min., 2003, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .J687 2003 DVD)

Good supplementary video:
The Human Family Tree
(96 min., 2009, DVD 1867)
National Geographic
Genographic Project

Week 4 — An Overview of the Primates

Monday
1 Oct.
2012

VC 802

Monkey, Ape and Man
(49 min., 1971, VC 802)

Good supplementary videos
(especially for showing Ape capabilities with experimental design):
Ape Genius
NOVA (ca. 54 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QL737.P96 A64 2008 DVD)

How Does the Brain Work -- NOVA (60 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia DVD QP376 .H69 2011)

Week 5 — Primate Behavior

Monday
8 Oct.
2012

VC 806

Among the Wild Chimpanzees
(58 min., 1984)

Monday
8 Oct.
2012

QL737.P96 L37 2007 DVD

The Last Great Ape
(56 min., 2007, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QL737.P96 L37 2007 DVD)
- Bonobo -- Wikipedia

Week 6 —

Midterm Exam 1

Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods: Introduction

Monday
15 Oct.
2012

The CE Midterm Exam Part I is scheduled for Week 06, Monday, 15 October 2012, on Chs. 1-7

GN281 .S4 2007

Search for the First Human – A Secrets of the Dead Special
(60 min., 2002, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .S4 2007)

Week 7 — Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods II

Discovering Ardi, Discovery Channel.

Monday
22 Oct.
2012

GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD

Discovering Ardi
(88 min., 2009, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD)
Discovery Channel

Week 8 — "Hominin Origins"
Orrorin / Ardipithecus / Australopithecines / Early Homo
"Selam" " Lucy"

Monday
29 Oct.
2012

GN282 .B436 2010 DVD

Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 1, "First Steps"
NOVA
(180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
- class viewing guide
- PBS HomePage
  - watch on-line

Monday
29 Oct.
2012

GN281 .O755 2005 DVD

Origins of Homo Sapiens: "East African Roots"
part 2 of The Story of Hominid Evolution
(47 min., 1997, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .O755 2005 DVD)

Good supplementary video:
Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution -- Films for the Humanities
(52 min., 1998, VC 4325)

view on-line at www.learner.org/
(registration required, but is free)

Week 9 — "Homo erectus and Contemporaries"
Java (Pithecanthropus) / "Peking Man" (Homo erectus pekinensis) / "Turkana Boy"
"The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries"

Monday
5 Nov.
2012

GN282 .B436 2010 DVD

Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 2, "Birth of Humanity"
NOVA
(180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
- Class viewing guide
- PBS HomePage
  - "Birth of Humanity" OnLine

Week 10 — Premodern Humans
Neandertals and Other Archaic Homo sapiens ("Heidelberg Man")

Midterm Exam 2

Gibraltar I: Reconstruction of a ca. four-year-old Neandertal
PBS
Neandertal
(aka Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neandertalensis)
Homo sapiens sapiens

Monday
12 Nov.
2012

VC 4333

Neanderthals on Trial -- NOVA
(60 min., 2002, VC 4333)
Also available at the UMD library:

The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]
- Episode 1: "The Mammoth Hunter" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2)
- Episode 2: "The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2)
For fun, have a look at Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 2001, VC 4592)

[The facts and datails in this presentation are good, but the dramatization gets a little carried away. Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

Week 11 — Midterm Exam 2

"Premodern Humans" & Modern Humans
Neandertals and Other Archaic Homo sapiens ("Heidelberg Man") and "The Hobbit" and Homo sapiens sapiens

Monday
19 Nov.
2012

The CE Midterm Exam Part II will be Week 11, Monday, 19 November 2012, on Chs. 8-11, 5:00-6:30

NOVA: Becoming Human Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors.

Monday
19 Nov.
2012

GN282 .B436 2010 DVD

Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 3, "Last Human Standing"
NOVA
(180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
- class viewing guide
- PBS HomePage
  - watch on-line

"Hobbit" (Homo floresiensis) artist's reconstruction.

"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

Monday
19 Nov.
2012

GN855.I6 A55 2009 DVD

Alien from Earth
(56 min., 2009, CC, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN855.I6 A55 2009 DVD)
- The "Hobbit" WebPage (Homo floresiensis)
Good supplementary video, for fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted"
from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, cf. Chs. 5-7)

Week 12 — Modern Humans
Homo sapiens sapiens
tools: lithic

Monday
26 Nov
2012

VC 2841

Blades and Pressure Flaking
(21 min., 1968)

Monday
26 Nov.
2012

VC 4261

Alan Alda, "Hand Made Human"
from Scientific American Frontiers, "Life's Really Big Questions"
(Segment 2, 15 min., 2000, VC 4261)

Monday
26 Nov.
2012

GN286 .H666 2004 DVD

Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min., 1999, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN286 .H666 2004 DVD)

Week 13 — Hunting / Gathering / Foraging

"Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers"
Ethnographic Analogy and the Method of Controlled Comparison

Monday
3 Dec.
2012

DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD

The Hunters
(72 min., 1958, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD)

Monday
3 Dec.
2012

QP82 .P38 2008 DVD

Patterns of Adaptation
(28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QP82 .P38 2008 DVD)

Week 14 — "Food Production"
The Neolithic

Monday
10 Dec.
2012

VC 3906, pt. 1

"Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age"
part 1 of Secrets of the Stone Age Series
(51 min., 2000, VC 3906, pt. 1)
- Other parts of the series include:
  - "Frozen in Time: Life in the Upper Paleolithic Age"
    (51 min., part. 2, 2000, VC 3906)
    ~ including information on figurines
  - "The Human Story: Traces of Humankind's Oldest Relatives"
    (51 min., part. 3, 2000, VC 3906)
    ~ including information on Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal, Cro-Magnon

Monday
10 Dec.
2012

VC 1981

NOTE:
This is NOT the 1998 program by the same name (UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD)

The Iceman
(56 min., 1992, VC1981)

Another good supplementary video:
Iceman Murder Mystery -- NOVA
(60 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GN776.22.I8 I24 2011 DVD)

Good supplementary video:
The Iceman
Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 1998, VC 4327, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD)

Another good supplementary video:
Ice mummies. Siberian Ice Maiden
NOVA
(57 min., 1998, VC 3963)

Monday
10 Dec.
2012

CC165 .O97 1993b DVD Disc 4

*"The Collapse"
from the Out of the Past series
(60 min., 1993, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia CC165 .O97 1993b DVD Disc 4)
- view on-line at www.learner.org/
  (registration required, but is free)

NA f2012

Quest for Phoenicians
(ca. 60 min., 2006, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DS81 .Q478 2006 DVD)
- Phoenicians WebPage

*for fun:
"Mastering the Beasts"
from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, Chs. 5-7, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .B445 2003 DVD)

How do you look at this program differently now than you might have at the beginning of the semester?

* time permitting

Week 15 — "The First Civilizations"

The f2012 CE Prehistoric Cultures Final Exam will be Monday, 17 December 2012, 06:00 - 07:55 p.m. in Cina 214 (n.b. not 5:00)

Chs. 12 - 15, general trends and important concepts from Chs. 01 - 15, and all class materials

Check with National Geographic, Discovery, and Nova for future programs

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Week	Day	No.	Title
Week 1 — Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to Prehistoric Cultures
01	Monday 10 Sept 2012	UM DULUTH Library Multimedia F2520.1.Y3 Y36 2004 DVD	*Yanomamö: A Multidisciplinary Study* (45 min., 1970, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia F2520.1.Y3 Y36 2004 DVD) Controversy: Darkness in El Dorado

Week 2 — The Development of Prehistoric Cultures History of Thought
02	Monday 17 Sept. 2012	GN281.4 .S42 2006 DVD	*The Search for Adam* (51 min., 2005, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281.4 .S42 2006 DVD)

Week 3 — Heredity and Evolution / Variation and Adaptation "Heredity and Evolution" "Modern Human Variation and Adaptation" "Maroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution"
03	Monday 24 Sept. 2012	QH431 .P377 2008 DVD	Patterns of Variation (28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QH431 .P377 2008 DVD)
	Monday 24 Sept. 2012	GN281 .J687 2003 DVD	Journey of Man. . . (120 min., 2003, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .J687 2003 DVD) Good supplementary video: The Human Family Tree (96 min., 2009, DVD 1867) National Geographic Genographic Project

Week 4 — An Overview of the Primates
04	Monday 1 Oct. 2012	VC 802	*Monkey, Ape and Man* (49 min., 1971, VC 802)
04	Monday 1 Oct. 2012		Good supplementary videos (especially for showing Ape capabilities with experimental design): Ape Genius NOVA (ca. 54 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QL737.P96 A64 2008 DVD) How Does the Brain Work -- NOVA (60 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia DVD QP376 .H69 2011)

Week 5 — Primate Behavior
05	Monday 8 Oct. 2012	VC 806	*Among the Wild Chimpanzees* (58 min., 1984)
	Monday 8 Oct. 2012	QL737.P96 L37 2007 DVD	The Last Great Ape (56 min., 2007, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QL737.P96 L37 2007 DVD) Bonobo -- Wikipedia

Week 6 — Midterm Exam 1 Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods: Introduction
06	Monday 15 Oct. 2012		The CE Midterm Exam Part I is scheduled for Week 06, Monday, 15 October 2012, on Chs. 1-7
		GN281 .S4 2007	*Search for the First Human – A Secrets of the Dead Special* (60 min., 2002, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .S4 2007)

Week 7 — Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods II
07	Monday 22 Oct. 2012	GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD	Discovering Ardi (88 min., 2009, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD) Discovery Channel

Week 8 — "Hominin Origins" Orrorin / Ardipithecus / Australopithecines / Early Homo "Selam" " Lucy"
08	Monday 29 Oct. 2012	GN282 .B436 2010 DVD	Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 1, "First Steps" NOVA (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD) class viewing guide PBS HomePage watch on-line
	Monday 29 Oct. 2012	GN281 .O755 2005 DVD	*Origins of Homo Sapiens: "East African Roots"* part 2 of The Story of Hominid Evolution (47 min., 1997, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .O755 2005 DVD) Good supplementary video: Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution -- Films for the Humanities (52 min., 1998, VC 4325) view on-line at www.learner.org/ (registration required, but is free)

Week 9 — "Homo erectus and Contemporaries" Java (Pithecanthropus) / "Peking Man" (Homo erectus pekinensis) / "Turkana Boy" "The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries"
09	Monday 5 Nov. 2012	GN282 .B436 2010 DVD	Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 2, "Birth of Humanity" NOVA (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD) Class viewing guide PBS HomePage "Birth of Humanity" OnLine

Week 10 — Premodern Humans Neandertals and Other Archaic Homo sapiens ("Heidelberg Man") Midterm Exam 2
10 Gibraltar I: Reconstruction of a ca. four-year-old Neandertal PBS Neandertal (aka Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neandertalensis) Homo sapiens sapiens	Monday 12 Nov. 2012	VC 4333	*Neanderthals on Trial* -- NOVA (60 min., 2002, VC 4333) Also available at the UMD library: The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.] Episode 1: "The Mammoth Hunter" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2) Episode 2: "The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2) For fun, have a look at Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities (97 min., 2001, VC 4592) [The facts and datails in this presentation are good, but the dramatization gets a little carried away. Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

Week 11 — Midterm Exam 2 "Premodern Humans" & Modern Humans Neandertals and Other Archaic Homo sapiens ("Heidelberg Man") and "The Hobbit" and Homo sapiens sapiens
11	Monday 19 Nov. 2012		The CE Midterm Exam Part II will be Week 11, Monday, 19 November 2012, on Chs. 8-11, 5:00-6:30
	Monday 19 Nov. 2012	GN282 .B436 2010 DVD	Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 3, "Last Human Standing" NOVA (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD) class viewing guide PBS HomePage watch on-line
"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this" (Image: National Geographic) -- BBC	Monday 19 Nov. 2012	GN855.I6 A55 2009 DVD	Alien from Earth (56 min., 2009, CC, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN855.I6 A55 2009 DVD) The "Hobbit" WebPage (Homo floresiensis) Good supplementary video, for fun: "Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel (49 min., 2003, DVD 94, cf. Chs. 5-7)

Week 12 — Modern Humans Homo sapiens sapiens tools: lithic
12	Monday 26 Nov 2012	VC 2841	*Blades and Pressure Flaking* (21 min., 1968)
	Monday 26 Nov. 2012	VC 4261	Alan Alda, "Hand Made Human" from Scientific American Frontiers, "Life's Really Big Questions" (Segment 2, 15 min., 2000, VC 4261)
	Monday 26 Nov. 2012	GN286 .H666 2004 DVD	*Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror* (53 min., 1999, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN286 .H666 2004 DVD)

Week 13 — Hunting / Gathering / Foraging "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers" Ethnographic Analogy and the Method of Controlled Comparison
13	Monday 3 Dec. 2012	DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD	*The Hunters* (72 min., 1958, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD)
	Monday 3 Dec. 2012	QP82 .P38 2008 DVD	Patterns of Adaptation (28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QP82 .P38 2008 DVD)

Week 14 — "Food Production" The Neolithic
14	Monday 10 Dec. 2012	VC 3906, pt. 1	"Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age" part 1 of Secrets of the Stone Age Series (51 min., 2000, VC 3906, pt. 1) Other parts of the series include: "Frozen in Time: Life in the Upper Paleolithic Age" (51 min., part. 2, 2000, VC 3906) ~ including information on figurines "The Human Story: Traces of Humankind's Oldest Relatives" (51 min., part. 3, 2000, VC 3906) ~ including information on Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal, Cro-Magnon
	Monday 10 Dec. 2012	VC 1981 NOTE: This is NOT the 1998 program by the same name (UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD)	The Iceman (56 min., 1992, VC1981) Another good supplementary video: Iceman Murder Mystery -- NOVA (60 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GN776.22.I8 I24 2011 DVD) Good supplementary video: The Iceman Films for the Humanities (97 min., 1998, VC 4327, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD) Another good supplementary video: Ice mummies. Siberian Ice Maiden NOVA (57 min., 1998, VC 3963)
	Monday 10 Dec. 2012	CC165 .O97 1993b DVD Disc 4	"The Collapse" from the Out of the Past* series (60 min., 1993, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia CC165 .O97 1993b DVD Disc 4) view on-line at www.learner.org/ (registration required, but is free)

	NA f2012		Quest for Phoenicians (ca. 60 min., 2006, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DS81 .Q478 2006 DVD) Phoenicians WebPage
			for fun: "Mastering the Beasts"* from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel (49 min., 2003, Chs. 5-7, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .B445 2003 DVD) How do you look at this program differently now than you might have at the beginning of the semester? * time permitting

Week 15 — "The First Civilizations"
			The f2012 CE Prehistoric Cultures Final Exam will be Monday, 17 December 2012, 06:00 - 07:55 p.m. in Cina 214 (n.b. not 5:00) Chs. 12 - 15, general trends and important concepts from Chs. 01 - 15, and all class materials

Video Schedule CE

Week

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Title