ARCL 140 Group Project

Example Topics (Non-exhaustive!)

Evolution of Bipedalism;
Control of Fire;
Childbearing and Childcare;
Evolution of Human Diet and Cooking;
Evolution of Brain Size & Complexity;
Symbolic Material Culture;
Clothing
Human Social Behaviour ;
Primate Social Behaviour ;
Early Primate Ancestors;
Critique of Bigfoot Myth
Relationships between Pleistocene sapiens and non-sapiens hominins (e.g. Neanderthals; Denisovans; other archaic hominins)

CONTRIBUTORS & ROLES

This section should be used to list each contributor's name and identify which section they were principally responsible for.

MAP

Provide a link to the group's project map:[1] and a list of the longitude and latitude of each site.

SEE: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:UBC_Content_Management_System/Embedding_Google_Maps

Wikitext embed code:

{{#widget:Iframe

|url= MAPURL*

|width=420

|height=400

|border=3

}}

*copy map URL from the Embed Code menu option on your MyMaps

Alternative: Take a screen capture of your map and insert it into your Wiki. Link the image to your interactive map.

INTRODUCTION

Introduce the topic in 500 words or less.

The introduction should be developed collaboratively by all four group members.

With a minimum of five references to recent relevant scholarly sources on the subject, it should do the following:

Describe the topic of interest
Explain why the topic is interesting and relevant to the study of human evolution (this is the "Why Should I Care?" section)
Identify each of the sites that have been selected and give a very brief summary (<50 words) of why each one is so important to the topic.

SITE 1: SITE NAME

Maximum 750 words. Requires a minimum of 3 unique scholarly references.

AUTHOR: Name of group member who is responsible.

LOCATION: Identify the location (relative to reasonably familiar human-scale landmarks, like "southern Himalayas", or "450km southwest of Whitehorse, YK") and provide the latitude and longitude and link to the location on the group's MyMap

AGE: The geological age of the site (preferably in years Before Present [BP]).

Context

Describe the context of the site: where is it, how old is it, what is its environmental context (geography and ecology) today and in the past.

History

How was the site found and when? Tell the story of the work that has gone on there!

Relevance

What was was found there and how does it relate to the immediate topic and the wider story of human evolution?

SITE 2: SITE NAME

Maximum 750 words. Requires a minimum of 3 unique scholarly references.

AUTHOR: Name of group member who is responsible.

LOCATION: Identify the location (relative to reasonably familiar human-scale landmarks, like "southern Himalayas", or "450km southwest of Whitehorse, YK") and provide the latitude and longitude and link to the location on the group's MyMap

AGE: The geological age of the site (preferably in years Before Present [BP]).

Context

Describe the context of the site: where is it, how old is it, what is its environmental context (geography and ecology) today and in the past.

History

How was the site found and when? Tell the story of the work that has gone on there!

Relevance

What was was found there and how does it relate to the immediate topic and the wider story of human evolution?

SITE 3: SITE NAME

Maximum 750 words. Requires a minimum of 3 unique scholarly references.

AUTHOR: Name of group member who is responsible.

LOCATION: Identify the location (relative to reasonably familiar human-scale landmarks, like "southern Himalayas", or "450km southwest of Whitehorse, YK") and provide the latitude and longitude and link to the location on the group's MyMap

AGE: The geological age of the site (preferably in years Before Present [BP]).

Context

Describe the context of the site: where is it, how old is it, what is its environmental context (geography and ecology) today and in the past.

History

How was the site found and when? Tell the story of the work that has gone on there!

Relevance

What was was found there and how does it relate to the immediate topic and the wider story of human evolution?

SITE 4: SITE NAME

Maximum 750 words. Requires a minimum of 3 unique scholarly references.

AUTHOR: Name of group member who is responsible.

LOCATION: Identify the location (relative to reasonably familiar human-scale landmarks, like "southern Himalayas", or "450km southwest of Whitehorse, YK") and provide the latitude and longitude and link to the location on the group's MyMap

AGE: The geological age of the site (preferably in years Before Present [BP]).

Context

Describe the context of the site: where is it, how old is it, what is its environmental context (geography and ecology) today and in the past.

History

How was the site found and when? Tell the story of the work that has gone on there!

Relevance

What was was found there and how does it relate to the immediate topic and the wider story of human evolution?

CONCLUSION

Pull it all together in 500 words or less. This section should be collaboratively written by all group members. No new information should be introduced in a Conclusion: it should be strictly confined to summarizing and re-stating the overall common themes and message of the foregoing document.

REFERENCES

The references list should be automatically generated from the collected citations included in your project Wiki.

Note that a minimum of 3 unique references is required for each individual site. Any references in the Introduction and Conclusion may be unique or can be drawn from those that were presented in the individual site sections.