Click the following link for the Independent Component 1 Calendar Spreadsheet: Introduction to Archaeology/Prehistory Cal Poly Pomona ANT 103-01 Class
Literal
(a) Statement saying: “I, Jaime Cervantes Jr., affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
Learned how the three goals of anthropology is to reconstruct cultural history by means of knowing the who, what when, where? As well as reconstructing the past life ways of the hearth/origin of the individual and be able to explain the cultural process (long and short-term change of the scientific growth of the body). The most important thing to learn about the skeletal remains is the context! The site in which they were found in can lead to the historical attribute of the existence of an entire civilization as well as the details behind the artifacts/evidence and the eco-facts that can lead to the collection of important items that can show evidence of religious insensitive, date-comparable organic material, as well as the soil in which they were found. The important things you are looking for when searching a crime scene or any time of site is the artifacts (lithics, sherds, bone, metal, glass, etc). You are also looking for soil stains, mostly midden, to determine if water was available to this particular area, even depressions, pits, and similar soil-like features. Most importantly, natural shelters like caves and rock shelters and huge, pyramid-like hills that can easily distinguish a possible forensic case between a religious death. You should always record your findings!
Please refer to my Evidence of Independent Component 1 link that contains pictures of the final grade and a photograph of the physical calendars.
Literal
(a) Statement saying: “I, Jaime Cervantes Jr., affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Explanation of what you completed. I have completed 42 hours of work for my independent component by attending an Introduction to Archaeology/Prehistory at Cal Poly Pomona taught by Dr. Mark Allen. During this 103-01 class with a compiled archaeology and anthropological aspect on how archaeology (in the United States and other countries) is a branch of anthropology that deals with cultures of the past, the basic methods, theories, and goals of archaeological research, having the ability to describe the nature of cultural developments in most parts of the world, as learned through archaeological research, and finally, how to appreciate the ethical questions and other current issues facing archaeology.
Interpretive
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.
My independent component was extremely helpful and yet informative. I've never had the opportunity to actually touch various skull models of humanoids from other time periods before. The class consisted of every continental archaeological and anthropological information such as present day evidence, cranium capacity, religions, with class discussions, several alumni presentations, and to check for understanding Dr. Allen gave us three exams and a final that.
Although I did above-and-beyond studying of different cultures and their cooperation with the physical anthropology knowledge that is used in forensic cases, it is pretty clear that the Cal Poly Pomona class that I took exceeded the 30 hour requirement by over 12 hours. There is clear evidence that I have successfully completed the first independent component based on my previous blogs and by the knowledge I have applied in my five minute and answer one presentations.
Applied
How did it help you answer your EQ? Be specific and use examples.
How did it help you answer your EQ? Be specific and use examples.
There were several significant parts of my component that helped me with my EQ, for instance I learned forensic anthropology requires many of the basic attributes and expertise of many of the anthropology subcategories in order to be able to critically think and acquire all of the evidence necessary to solve a crime. Not only is forensic anthropology dealing with the skeletal remains, but the soil they were found, natural components, items found with, as well as insect remnants. I was able to draw connections with my senior project and this class by observing how the Neantherthal's skull greatly differs with that of a Homo sapean's skull and how it will be able to help give important details that are found in investigations such as: is this human? Professor Allen makes the "dirty work" of the anthropological standpoint seem rather fun and enjoyable experience if you have an incredible amount of patience and have an eye of detail to be able to use in the workforce.
I also learned how people that have hunting as a hobby/sport tend to have rather healthier, disease-free evidence on their skeletal remains. Family and factory farmers, however, tend to be manifested with such conditions since they are in a more compact area with a larger group of people.Trace element analysis is when skeletal remains absorb some plant and animal fibers that can lead to knowing the time of death as well as location and elevation. This has become a widely practice method, due to the high accuracy rate of being factual evidence!
For more insight in my independent component feel free to look at my previous blog entries of those class weeks:
Compiled forensic anthropology useful information and prehistory data based on time period, location with evidence, cranium capacity (skull), and time periods based on million and thousands of years ago:
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