ANTH 10300 Biological Anthropology

Periodical databases

  • ScienceDirect
    Especially good for locating articles from journals related to forensic science, criminology, and medicine.
  • AnthroSource
    The platform for the full text of journals published by or affilliated with the American Anthropological Association.
  • JSTOR
    Has the full text of journal articles in many fields, including anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, but does not include the most recent contents of journals.
  • Biological Abstracts
    Good for finding articles if you are concentrating on the biological aspects of forensic anthropology
  • PubMed
    Useful for medical topics
  • PrimateLit & All the World's Primates
    For different aspects of primatology and human evolution
  • Project Muse
    Covers many fields of the humanities and social sciences


     

Journals

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Subjects Headings, created under the Library of Congress, provide terms with withch to search the online catalog for books, ebooks, and other materials. This is only a sampling of hundreds of subject terms available.

Social and Cultural Aspects
  • Plants and civilization
  • Human-plant relationships
  • Food social aspects
  • Food habits
  • Nutritional anthropology
  • Cooking social aspects
History and Prehistory
  • Agriculture history
  • Food history
  • Food habits--History
  • Prehistoric peoples food
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Human beings--Origin
  • Human evolution
  • Primates
  • Primates--Evolution
  • Fossil hominids
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Neanderthals
  • Apes
Ethnobotany
  • Indigenous peoples--Ecology
  • Paleoethnobotany
  • Herbs--Therapeutic use
  • Naturopathy
  • Medicinal plants
  • Indians of North America--Ethnobotany

Films

These are a few of the documentary films in the Ithaca College Library that cover different aspects of biological anthropolopy.
  • Ape Man. A&E; (200 min.) 1994 DVD 1077
  • Becoming human: unearthing our earliest ancestors. PBS (160 min.) 2010 DVD 6568
  • Death at Jamestown. PBS (56 min.) 2001  DVD 3561
  • The human family tree. National Geographic (96 min.) 2009 DVD 7896
  • Human life. BBC (49 min.) 2005 DVD 4146
  • The life and times of Sara Baartman  First Run/Icurus (52 min.) 1998 DVD 2427
  • The story of hominid evolution. (93 min.) 2003 DVD 8039
  • The new chimpanzees: a National Geographic special (57 min.) 2009. DVD 512
  • Chimps on the edge: a National Geographic special (57 min.) 2009. DVD 513
  • Mountain gorilla: an IMAX Natural History Film Unit production in association with the National Geographic Society (39 min.) 2002. DVD 3672
  • Primate [Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center] Zipporah Films. (105 min.) 1974. DVD 6141

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