HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homo Sapiens, Relative Dating, Absolute Dating
24 Jul 2020
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Week 3: peopling the world: an introduction to big history. This lecture introduces students to thinking about time differently. The farther one goes back in time, the less evidence is available, and the more helpful it is to consider time in larger chunks and to look for long- lasting patterns. Students are encouraged to avoid the concept of pre- history (where history only starts when information is recorded in written documents) and instead embrace the idea of. Ancient history that uses a wide variety of information and sources and goes back in time indefinitely. In this lecture we examine the emergence of humans and look at studies of how the earth was peopled. New scholarship is emerging quickly with the use of dna evidence. Kim tallbear asks us to be critical of this new science and cautiously question the biases of genetic research.
