Early humans ice, stone, and survival

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"You are a member of the only species that has survived in the genus Homo since its 2.5-million-year evolutionary journey began. Homo habilis, H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis-plus many other species we know of and perhaps dozens yet to be discovered-have all come and gone. Homo sapiens alone has endured. Who were these long-ago ancestors of ours? Where and how did they live and die? And how are we even able to learn about these humans, some of wh...

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Ethnology

Human beings

Human evolution

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ISBN:

9781644654705

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
digital optical
video file DVD video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

"Course No. 30150"
Lecturer: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
Closed-captioned
DVD
In English

Contents:

Disc 1. What does it mean to be human
Stones and bones: the first fossil families
Bio-cultural adaptation and Homo erectus
How Homo sapiens left Africa
X-Woman! meet our ancient relatives
Disc 2. Did the Neanderthals really go extinct?
Sailing to Australia 60,000-plus years ago
The origins of language and music
Handprints in Time: early art and objects
Ancient jewelry as extensions of the mind
Disc 3. Death and burial in the prehistoric world
Feast or famine? the Paleolithic diet
Why there's no such thing as cavemen
Early technology: axes, harpoons, and hooks
Coming to the Americas 20,000-plus years ago
Disc 4. Living dangerously as the last Ice Age ended
Brewing beer and baking bread in the Levant
The hunter-gatherers begin to settle down
Secrets of cave art, ceramics, and cattle
Was agriculture a revolution or an accident?

Control Number:

3387939

UPC:

978164465470

Other Authors:

Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E., lecturer
Teaching Company, production company, publisher

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