Please watch the TED talk DNA Clues into Our inner Neandertal (Links to an external site.) and then read a recent article, Neanderthals and Moderns Humans Interbred ‘10,000 years ago,’ (Links to an external site.) and post about something that you learned from a both and whether or not you thought the two contradicted one another.

anthropology.1. What sorts of practical concerns or challenges faced by ancient people may have led to the development of complex2. Considering the fact that most people work harder and relinquish at least some control over their own lives in complex societies, why might such societies have developed at all?3. Why and how would complex societies devote so much of their energies to the production of great monuments with no practical purpose?4. What does Göbekli Tepe imply about the development of complexity? What is surprising about the site?