Oral histories help us understand the way that the world was in generations prior to ours. Oral history refers to living people’s testimonies about their own experiences. In some cases, oral histories allow humans to remember the world hundreds of generations back — before written, photographed, or otherwise physically documented histories. Additionally, oral histories can come from anyone — you don’t have to be a historian to remember your own experiences. This means we can get more diverse and unique versions of the past.

In our third module, we learned about early hominins (the early extinct relatives on the human family tree). A key moment in human evolution was the cultural leap made possible by knowledge transmission, which allowed hominins to develop archives of knowledge that extended beyond any single lifetime. By maintaining these…

Following our second module, which focused on primate evolution and contemporary primates, students were asked to submit a short essay reflecting on an aspect of primate lifestyles, behavior or culture that helps us better understand our own origins as humans. …

Following our first module, where students learned about some of the principles of evolution, they were tasked with picking an evolutionary concept or theme and creating a graphic illustration to explain how it works, with examples. Below are some of the top infographics from our class.

In this course, students are learning to use the tools of evolutionary anthropology to trace human origins and adaptations through deep time. The goal will be to explore how evidence from the past (fossils, remnants of tools and art, DNA) as well as parallels in the present helps us to define what it means to be human and understand the unique moments of adaptation and change that created, and continues to maintain, our species.

Throughout the semester, students in Food and the Body spent time reading, reflecting and discussing the many factors that transform eating from subsistence into political act. How did colonialism impact indigenous foodways and restructure relationships to body and land? In what ways do we see this colonial legacy shaping our…

By Charlie Cardello My gallery walk is a comic-strip that would meet not only the target audience of high school to college-level but definitely towards lower school students. My comic-strip contains about ten frames and focuses on a small portion of the daily life of an early hominid in Central…

By Miriam Fakhoury Ever wonder why so many animals (and people) eat acorns? Learn a little bit about oak trees and how to eat acorns, and go try it for yourself! Bibliography Arendt, Elke K. and Zannini, Emanuele. Cereal Grains for the Food and Beverage Industries. …

By Anna Boucher This idea of passing down knowledge to young members of the community permeates almost all culture groups across the globe. Through this children’s book I emphasizes the act of connecting, or re-connecting, with one’s body and mother nature. I think that it is important that children are…