| Physical Anthropology Final Project The final project for this course involves reading and reviewing a "first-person" account of work or research in physical anthropology or archaeology. The goal is to discover what it is like to do physical anthropology and archaeology in as much detail as possible. Most final assignments--and most books you can read--are rehashes of someone else's research and thinking. They do not explore the process by which we acquire and interpretation factual evidence. The point of this assignment is to get as "close to the ground" as possible and find out what it is really like to find and assemble the facts. Therefore, you can choose one of the these books or any other one like them. When you look for a source, you want one that is written in first-person ("I") and that deals with the "detective work" or "puzzle-solving" that is science. If you want to use a book that is not on this list (and this list is very partial), please run it by me first. Adovasia, J. and Jake Page. The First Americans. Arsuaga, Juan Luis. The Neandertal's Necklace. Berger, Lee. In the Footsteps of Eve. Coe, Michael. Breaking the Maya Code. Dawkins, Richard. (anything he wrote) Diamond, Jared. The Third Chimpanzee. Fossey, Diane. Gorillas in the Mist. Goodall, Jane. (almost anything she wrote) Gould, Stephen Jay. (anything he wrote) Harris, Marvin. Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going. Johanson, Donald. Lucy OR Lucy's Child. Leakey, Louis. (anything he wrote) Leakey, Richard. (anything he wrote) Mayor, Adrienne. The First Fossil Hunters (ancient Greeks and Romans). Morris, Desmond. The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species. Pringle, Heather. The Mummy Congress. Ryan, William and Walter Pitman. Noah's Flood. Shipman, Pat. The Main Who Found the Missing Link (Dubois) Thomas, David Hurst. Skull Wars. (Kennewick Man) Walter, Alan, and Pat Shipman. the Wisdom of the Bones. Weeks, Kent. The Lost Tomb (Ramses II) Evolution Controversy: Behe, Michael. Darwin's Black Box. Johnson, Phillip. Darwin on Trial. Miller, Kenneth. Finding Darwin's God. Ruse, Michael. The Evolution Wars. |