Anthropology Origins Homo sapiens

How did we populate this planet?

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English
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Anthropology Origins Homo sapiens
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1.5 hours
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Aug 2021
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$49.99
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What you will learn

Introduction to our ancient ancestors

How did we populate this planet so successfully?

Why take this course?

Series of 8 lectures totalling ca. 75 mins. on how H. sapiens has so successfully populated the earth.

The lectures commence on hominin origins and dispersals (migration) patterns in the late Pleistocene.

Lecture 4 deals solely with lithic tool technology and the lecturer demonstrates how stone tools were made in an outside location. Students are asked to endeavour to make a stone spearpoint.

The lectures explore how H. sapiens became the dominant hominin spp. on earth principally by the cognitive revolution. The lectures then move onto the Neolithic Revolution and the first agricultural settlements on earth.

We examine several prehistoric settlements in the Fertile Crescent and the first 'cities' in Anatolia and Canaan.

Once H. sapiens mastered the art of agriculture and the domestication of animals. he moved on to smelting copper. Lecture 9 examines the first copper smelters in Europe and the Near East and how the Egyptians used copper chisels to build the pyramids.

Lecture 10 asks 'Where to from here'. The earth's population of H. sapiens has increased eight fold to 7.8 billion in the last two hundred years. How much more population growth can the earth sustain? If every person on earth were to maintain a standard of living equal to that of people in the USA, we would need four more worlds full of resources.



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Reviews

Javier
March 10, 2023
Great course, and very cool to see how our ancestors used to work the stones and prepare their tools.
Johann
October 5, 2022
Really an Amazing and Insightful Master Piece Everybody on the planet Should do this Course. It has Answered so many existential questions that i have had for a ever. Thank you Bruce.
Sayak
September 5, 2022
Mr. Arthur elucidated concepts of the early origins of our species, i.e. Homo sapiens sapiens, in a warm and lucid manner. My interest in anthropology and history, with my personal research interest in palaeoanthropology, brought me to this course and I was not disappointed in any manner. I look forward to further courses from Mr. Arthur.

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