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Can you recommend an exciting, accurate video suitable for middle school viewing?
Either Alan Alda's "Human Spark" or the PBS series, "Becoming Human" are both up-to-date and pretty good. Both are 3 parts at one hour each. Human spark is focused on human uniqueness. Becoming Human is about the long course of human evolution.
(In interest of full disclosure, I appear in both programs; but, I would recommend them even if I were not.
Sincerely,
John Shea
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John Shea
Expertise
Questions about Old World prehistoric archaeology (especially Stone Age) of Europe, Africa, and Western Asia, prehistoric human and hominid behavior, primitive technology, origin of modern humans, extinction of the Neandertals.
Experience
>20 years as a professional anthropologist based at a research university.
Publications
Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Lithic Technology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Mitekufat HaEven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society), Paléorient, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, American Anthropologist, Geoarchaeology.
Education/Credentials
Ph.D (Anthropology) Harvard University, 1991.
BA (Archaeology) Boston University, 1982.
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