Unit Code:	ARC1DOH
Unit Short Title:	DAWN OF HUMANITY
Credit Points:	15
Unit Description:	Our ancestors neither looked, or behaved, like us. In this subject students will be introduced to our tool-using ancestors, the worlds they inhabited and the behaviours in which they engaged. We will investigate the way in which archaeologists build a picture of the very remote past from the bits of broken-up animal bones and chipped stone tools that survive in the archaeological record. This provides a springboard for discussing current understanding of the changes in technology, diet, social organisation and cognition that characterised our evolutionary story. We have, of course, a particular interest in the origin of our own species and in the establishment of modern cognition and behaviour.
Class Requirements:	one 1-hour lecture, one 1-hour film and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this subject students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 1,500-word essay	40
one 1-hour examination	25
seven on-line assignments (1500-words equivalent)	35

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	The human past	Scarre, C. (ed.)	Thames and Hudson 2005
Recommended	Human evolution: an illustrated introduction,	Lewin, R.	5th edn, Blackwell Science 2005

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Nicola	Stern	BUNDOORA	Y