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Field Note Collaborations for Week 1
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. As you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video for this week, download the Weekly Study Field Notes (Links to an external site.) document and fill out a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down important concepts, parts of your reading that you might have questions about or even content 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 uploading and sharing them with your peers in the collaboration.
*See this example of field notes (Links to an external site.).
Guided Response: Save your file in the following format: StudentName-Field_Notes.docx. Attach your Field Notes Worksheet to your initial posting in the discussion forum. (View the Attaching Documents to Discussions video (Links to an external site.) to learn how to do this).
Required Resource
Text
Feder, K. L. (2016). The past in perspective: An introduction to human prehistory (7th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 1: Encountering the Past
- Chapter 2: Probing the Past
- Chapter 3: African Roots
Recommended Resources
Articles
Senut, B. (2012). Fifty years of debate on the origins of human bipedalism. Journal of Biological Research (1826-8838), 85(1), 37-46. doi:10.4081/jbr.2012.4062
- The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about the origins of bipedalism and will assist you in your discussion forum this week.
Thorpe, S. K. S., McClymont, J. M., & Crompton, R. H. (2014). The arboreal origins of human bipedalism. Antiquity, 88(341), 906-914. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00050778
- The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about the origins of bipedalism and will assist you in your discussion forum this week.
Multimedia
bdw5000. (2013, June 16). The making of the fittest: Natural selection and adaptation (Links to an external site.). [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtT5_AQmLg
- This video provides information about natural selection and will assist you in your lab this week.
Web Page
Chadda, R. (2006). Origins of bipedalism (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/origins-bipedalism.html
- This article provides information about the origins of bipedalism and will assist you in your discussion forum this week.
| Field Note Collaborations for Week 1 |
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. As you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video for this week, download the Weekly Study Field Notes (Links to an external site.) document and fill out a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down important concepts, parts of your reading that you might have questions about or even content 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 uploading and sharing them with your peers in the collaboration.
*See this example of field notes (Links to an external site.).
Guided Response: Save your file in the following format: StudentName-Field_Notes.docx. Attach your Field Notes Worksheet to your initial posting in the discussion forum. (View the Attaching Documents to Discussions video (Links to an external site.) to learn how to do this).
