Advances in anthropology for fans of the reality behind the adventures. While early pioneers concentrated on analysis of skeletonized human remains and treasure, advances in AI tools for anthropology have changed our definition of anthropology to include a revised view of humanity. Anthropology has expanded to include medicine, disease, humanitarian and human rights investigations and genetic legacies. New complex methods of search and recovery, isotopic analysis related to diet and region of origin, reconstructing literature, languages and speech migration, genealogy, age estimation, stages of physical development of the living and extinct species. Films and television series have captured the thrills, but we think learning about real-life anthropological advances will prove very exciting as well. Anthropology represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving complex discipline with real time applications. Anthropology has moved beyond the discovery of bones and treasure to illuminating a new view of humanity
Although not a reading class, we will be reading parts of “The Reinvention of Humanity” by Charles King. ISBN-13:978-1784705862.