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Weekly Study Field Notes

Field notes are a very important part of anthropological research. Anthropologists use their field notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For your collaboration you are being asked to make your own field notes, based on the assigned course materials. Each week, as you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video, you will create a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down such things as important concepts, things that you might have questions about, or even things that you find surprising or interesting. Just like the notes that an anthropologist makes in the field, your notes must be clear and easy to read because you will be sharing them with your peers in the collaboration

Complete the following sections in the spaces below:

First and Last Name:

Chantelle Weed

Date:

10/05/2017

Title of Assigned Readings (including chapter numbers) or Videos:

Chapter 1: Encountering the Past

Chapter 2: Probing the Past

Chapter 3: African Roots

Reflections:

I thought that it was interesting to learn about the about how people had thought that the earth was only a few thousand years old and how they had thought to explain where ancient tools had come from. I also thought that it was interesting to learn about how to distinguish the sex of skeletons. The Miocene period was another interesting read.

Emerging questions/analyses:

When did early hominids gain intelligence to start recording their lives?

Who are our direct ancestors?

Important concepts:

Darwin was the father of biological evolution but wanted to stay away from human evolution.

There are multiple theories to explain bipedalism but they all seem to revolve around food or energy.

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