Human biodiversity and multiethnicity
Teaching module for junior secondary schools 7 – 21 February 2024
Biological anthropology can provide the key to understanding better how the diversification of peoples and cultures, migratory phenomena and the dynamics of demography and interactions between peoples occur. This key may be helpful, especially to the new generations represented by the students.
We acquire the tools we need to build a more objective and comprehensive view of the formation processes and interactions of peoples and cultures.
In collaboration with Sylvia Di Marco
The tools for studying biodiversity
- Wednesday 7 February 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
We discover the basics of life and biodiversity (the cell and DNA), biological anthropology methods for studying the history of human populations, physical anthropology and skeletal biology methods, human genetics and palaeogenomics. We look at examples of applications to current and past (including prehistoric) human populations.
Origins and migrations of human populations
- Wednesday 14 February 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
Origin and spread of Homo sapiens and interaction with other human species, European roots (Upper Palaeolithic man, the migratory wave of the 'Neolithic Revolution' in Europe, the new wave of the Yamnaja (the first Indo-Europeans). Etruscans, Greek and Phoenician colonies, the Roman Empire and barbarian invasions, the great pandemics of the Middle Ages, and recent and current migrations.
Biodiversity, multiethnicity, and adaptation strategies
- Wednesday 21 February 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
The false concept of 'race' applied to Humanity, the concepts of 'population', 'ethnicity' and 'culture' in biology, demography and archaeology. Biological and cultural adaptation strategies, multiethnicity and multiculturalism in past human populations: from conflict to integration.
