AnthroTours
Using the power of Google Earth, AnthroTours take you on flyovers of key locations discussed in the text.
Visit Essentials of Physical Anthropology StudySpace student website and Access Essentials of Physical Anthropology Ebook icons in each AnthroTour connect your to the text and online review materials.
Dialogue boxes accompanying each site include text, figures, photos and even YouTube videos, explaining why that location is significant to biological anthropologists.
A list of AnthroTours is found below.
Download AnthroTours.
System Requirements for Google Earth™
- If you haven't done it already, download Google Earth™ and install it on your computer.
- If you haven't done it already, download the AnthroTours.kmz file and save a copy to your desktop. (This file contains AnthroTours for all chapters, so you only need to download this once!)
By downloading AnthroTours.kmz you acknowledge that it was created solely to accompany Clark Spencer Larsen's Essentials of Physical Anthropology and is limited to use with only this title and may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means for any other purpose without the written permission of the publisher.
- Double-click the AnthroTours.kmz file and Google Earth™ will open automatically.
- In the left-hand sidebar you will see a Places menu, and in the Temporary Places folder you will see AnthroTours.kmz file. Double-click the file to open it and visit several locations on the tour.
Essentials of Physical Anthropology AnthroTours
The following AnthroTours are included in anthrotours.kmz download:
Chapter 1:
- Baffin Island
- Santa Catalina de Guale
Chapter 2:
Chapter 4:
- Lake Maracaibo region, Venezuela (Huntington's chorea)
- Manchester, England (the peppered moth)
Chapter 5:
- Himalaya and Andes Mountains (high altitude adaptation)
- Lake Turkana region, Kenya
Chapter 6:
- Madagascar
- Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Chapter 7:
Chapter 8:
- Shanghuang, China (basal anthropoids)
- Salla, Bolivia (Branisella)
- El Fayum, Egypt
Chapter 9:
- Fossil Tour
- Toros-Menalla, Chad
- Tugen Hill, Kenya
- Middle Awash, Ethiopia
- Hadar, Ethiopia
- Lomekwi, Kenya
- Sterkfontein, South Africa
- Couri, Ethiopia
- Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Zhoukoudian, China
Chapter 10:
- Fossil Tour
- Toros-Menalla, Chad
- Tugen Hill, Kenya
- Middle Awash, Ethiopia
- Hadar, Ethiopia
- Lomekwi, Kenya
- Sterkfontein, South Africa
- Couri, Ethiopia
- Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Zhoukoudian, China
Chapter 11:
- Neander Valley, Germany
- Kennewick, Washington
Chapter 12:
- Çatalhöyük, Turkey
- Cahokia, Illinois
- The Fertile Crescent