I really like your approach to cultural relativism, let me connect a lot of dots that I had already learned of. Cramming for a different prof thx for the video.

Geez, I was hoping to learn about anthropological symbols, not get lectured politically by a socialist…

Thanks for the upload! Question: what is the book that this chapter comes from?

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 10:42

Excellent lectures, please do not remove eventually they will be popular

compared to other species the humans are so uniform, its stunning. For example, there are maybe 50000 Chimpanzees left on earth and they are a magnitude more divers than all humans on earth. do we need to split them in 10 or 20 races?

Mass counts with an axe small for small sticks

It almost like hes saying the color orange doesn't exist because we already have the colors red and yellow...

Add the link to movies

Hi, I appreciate the kind efforts you have made. I found your lectures informative and defined each concept with clarity. It is a request to give talks on anthropological theories

They buried the bodies bc they stink and attract predators. 11:36

That guy who took your money and bought you a weeks worth ticket… F HIM

Homojoebidenis 🦧

Tank you very much for this very informative presentation!

Thank you for these informative videos

Thank you so much for awesome lecture, I am an anthoropology student from Nepal

Was ch 11-08 the last part of 11 or did I miss something?

Doesn't the san people eat double the recommended amount of protein durring droughts? They are healthy hunter gatherers

It stands to reason, that in the Planet of Apes. It was crossbreathing with Homids from all over. Europe Asia AND AFR. Logic is THE WAY.

What a load of BS about Australian prehistory. Mungo man has no genetic links to any modern day aboriginals. Modern day aboriginals automatically claimed him as their ancestor without any proof. Why not talk about the very robust Kow Swamp cranium? How does the relatively gracile skeleton of mungo man 42k morph to robust Kow swamp 12k and back to gracile remains 5k ago? You start off talking history but go down political indigenous activism. Political activist masquerading as teachers of history 🙄

Hello! I really like this video. I was wondering if I could get the power point pre of it?

Certain Amerindian tribes practiced ritual cannibalism, eating the flesh of a brave enemy to absorb their courage. Chippewa and Mohawk come to mind.. "Mohawk" comes from a word meaning "man-eater" in some Algonquin language. Aztecs practiced ritual cannibalism of sacrificial victims on a mass regular basis. I doubt this practise was unique but occurred in many other earlier cultures worldwide.

Its true ...😍😘

It's been determined it wasn't a knucle-walker.

I love how blase you were about the earthquake in the middle of the lecture! Hope everyone was ok. earthquakes aside, awesome content

Everyone should read Jerison's 1973 book, not because it's the last word on the subject, but because it's a good overall introduction.

Thank you. Great presentation, keep up the good work.

This channel is amazing. I'm very interested in anthropology but can't pursue it at university so this resource is so valuable to me. Thank you for making this knowledge available!

Uh..umm..aaa..uhh.....need to cut this out of your speaking. Makes you sound dumb.

In simple terms...thank you

OK

I feel smarter now that I know how my brain works. However, I can only guess how well my brain works, opinions may vary!

Good video, much to consider, which is good!

Are blacks and whites different species?

Sorry but the Neanderthals in the Clan of the Cave Bear were NOT vegetarians. The Neanderthals were traditionalist and misoginistic while the Cro Magnons were liberal and more egalitarian. The weirdest thing was that the Neanderthals' extra cranial capacity allowed them to somehow to have ancestral memory (like the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert's Dune).

I wish we would always put the racism spin on topics which have nothing do with the the US’s obsession with racism. It discredits the reliability of the information when you make it political

One thing I find very interesting about human ancestors is how long erectus persisted and how successful it was

It's hard to imagine people living in the cold but without regular fire or substantial shelter. Very interesting, thanks!

Omg ….you had me at: pondering the fact that the hyoid bone exists in both Neanderthals & us~ suggesting that we got it from our common ancestor. I do not know WHY but that blew me away lol

David- You should have some notes to use to STOP all the UHS ! Uh pause uh uh pause uh uh uh pause- or is that your Obama impression?

the church says this is false and evolutionists say the church is false , where the heck are we supposed to stand!?.. no one can pinpoint the origins of life, it's ridiculous. what a screwed up world.

why do we think the world is being ripped apart between this and religion?

Best if you don't make videos. The "uh's and um's" along with pauses in mid sentence and riddled with bad grammar, incomplete sentences, make your video a very bad example for any student. This is a great example where bad grammar is past down to young people. You may have knowledge but you have lousy presentation skills.

Neanderthal symbolism and does seem to be more prevalent from recent finds. Cave art has been attributed to them. The arrangements of stalagmites or stalactites (I always forget which is which!) found in one cave is remarkable. Musical instruments are an amazing find to me. Clearly they had the means of producing speech. Could they convey meaning using vocalizations/words in a learned way that their group members could understand? I'm quite sure - yes. Teaching of stone tool technologies, how to make fire and clothes - all processes that must have been conveyed through language. This is far from unique to humans. Dogs understand many human words. Whales and dolphins communicate quite well and coordinate hunts and other activities. In my mind, these all constitute forms of language. I think erectus had at least proto-language as well, probably more. Maybe not quite as sophisticated, with nuances, tenses, denotion and connotation, but effective language nonetheless. By analogy, sapien language is high-speed internet - but Neanderthals and others at least had dial-up. Probably very close or even as sophisticated.

55,000 H.erectus individuals on the way to extinction, how many meiotic events over what period of time would have fulfilled Darwin’s gradual evolutionary theory?

Two pedantic corrections: 1)Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. (Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Nyasaland became Malawi). 2) The plane that crashed in the Andes which resulted in the survivors resorting to cannibalism, was carrying a Uruguayan rugby team.

On and on about cannibalism in modern humans. I thought this was about variations among archaic humans

What about orcas?

Enjoying all your lectures. Thank you

Evolution is lunacy. We are the descendants of the grandsons and great grandsons of Noah that were actually named. Ever hear of Asher? He is the father of the Assyrians (G). How about Aram? The father of the Arameans (F). Elam? Elamites (H). Cush Cushites (E3 V32), Phut early Phoenicians (E3 M81), Mitzrayim Egypt (E3 V12), Tiras Thracians (L), Gomer Europeans (R), Madai Medes (Q), Ancient Italy Tubal (K), Canaan Canaanites (E3 M123), Arphaxad Hebrews and Arabic (I&J), Lud Lydians (F2), Meshek Siberians (N), Magog Asia (O), Javan is the ancient Greek Mediterranean sea people (T). How about learning some human history? You can’t make up known human history. It’s the only history there is. Neanderthals are Japhethites and Denisovans are a mix of Japhethites and Hamites, not Semitic. It shows up on DNA maps and charts. Every grandson of Noah and their descendants have their own paternal Y chromosome haplogroup lineage! I can name all sixteen of them like I just did and give you each of their haplogroups!