Syllabus
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Course Code: B-ANTH-201 Course Name: Fundamentals of Palaeoanthropology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1. Palaeoanthropology, Definition, Scope, aim objectives 2. Relationship of Palaeoanthropology with other disciplines. 3. Geological Time Scale, Taphonomyand interpretation of paleontological andarchaeological records, taxonomic and chronological problems of fossil records. 4. Primatesand Non-primate models for early Hominid Behaviour, hominizationprocess – Evolution of hominid-human bipedalism. |
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| 2 | 1. Fossils and Fossilisation process
How Fossils are formed, the process of Fossilization, Conditions forFossilization 2. Palaceodemography – reconstruction of population patterns from skeletal analysis,determination of demographic variable in prehistoric populations and postneolithicpopulation growth, theory and techniques in paleodemography, methodologicalissues for reconstructing demographic structure, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation. 3. Palaeopathology – Bioarchaeological approach of disease, effects of agriculture,urbanization and slavery on health and disease, colonization and disease with specialemphasis on the new world, dispersion of modern humans-molecular and morphological patterns of relationship. |
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