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Read this film, and fill out the worksheet that I attached. Need to write under each question, total 7 questions and each questions requires at least 200-250 words, each question write as essay writing.

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ANTH 330 SS Week 2 Lab Worksheet: “The Art of Tracking” Instructions: The questions on this worksheet refer to the film assigned for this week, and address one of the main topics covered in this week’s lesson: the knowledge needed to make a living as a hunter-gatherer, and how this knowledge can be thought of as a resource used to access other resources. I highly recommend that you answer the questions while watching the film (i.e., don’t rely on memory when completing the worksheet). Your answers should demonstrate that you understand the behavior or phenomenon and can identify it when you see it. This is a writing assignment: you must answer in complete sentences organized into a cohesive paragraph. Each question is worth 20 points. 1. How is human tracking different from the way most other animals track? According to the film, what is the most difficult part of a hunt? Illustrate your answer with an example from the film. 2. According to the film, how is knowledge of animal behavior integral to tracking? Give an example of something specific Klaus knows about gemsbok behavior that aids him in tracking the female gemsbok at midday. What does this knowledge enable him to predict about where she won’t be? 3. In the Mithen chapter we saw that one of the cues hunters use when tracking is vegetation. Give an example of a vegetation cue that Klaus uses when he is tracking the gemsbok. What information does this cue provide? 4. According to the film, what is the essence of how information is transmitted from generation to generation? Of the four types of learning in forager groups that Mithen discusses, which does this represent? As depicted in the film, how do !Kung children learn how to make arrow poison? Of the four types of learning that Mithen discusses, which does this represent? As depicted in the film, how do !Kung boys learn how to use a bow and arrow? Of the four types of learning that Mithen discusses, which does this represent? 5. Drawing on the demonstration of poison-making presented in the film, explain how the use of poison-arrows illustrates the use of a complex resource extraction technique, referring to the aspects of complexity discussed in Lecture 3 (slides 5-7). In your answer, discuss the different types of ecological knowledge a !Kung person needs to have in order to make arrow poison. 6. The !Kung often have to track animals after they are shot--why? After the hunters shoot the kudu, what cue do they look for to determine whether the poison has taken effect or not? 7. How far do the !Kung hunters track the warthog after it has been wounded? What techniques do they use to try to remove the warthog from its burrow? What do they know about lion behavior that causes them to postpone the hunt and return to camp? What knowledge do they need to re-locate the warthog burrow the next day? When the hunters return to the burrow, how do they know that the warthog is still inside? 8. At what age did Sam, the Iñupiat man, start hunting? Who taught him how to hunt seals? According to Sam, why was seal hunting important at that time? What resources did seal hunters provide for the village? According to Sam, how can you tell whether a moose track in the snow is fresh or old?
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ANTH 330 SS Week 2 Lab Worksheet: “The Art of Tracking”
Instructions: The questions on this worksheet refer to the film assigned for this week,
and address one of the main topics covered in this week’s lesson: the knowledge
needed to make a living as a hunter-gatherer, and how this knowledge can be thought
of as a resource used to access other resources. I highly recommend that you answer
the questions while watching the film (i.e., don’t rely on memory when completing the
worksheet). Your answers should demonstrate that you understand the behavior or
phenomenon and can identify it when you see it. This is a writing assignment: you must
answer in complete sentences organized into a cohesive paragraph. Each question is
worth 20 points.

1. How is human tracking different from the way most other animals track? According to
the film, what is the most difficult part of a hunt? Illustrate your answer with an example
from the film.
Tracking is an art that is fast disappearing and may vanish before even people understand it well.
Footprints of animals might be easy to follow however last pieces, and variations of the
footprints might be complex and require exceptional skills. Unlike animals that track their prey
by scent, humans do it through intellect. However, the trackers do not rely on any scientific
knowledge to do their tracking, but it is part of their ancestry. Tracking is said to be probably the
oldest art of science, but it's getting lost because it is just not recognized by anthropologists. The
most challenging part of hunting that the hunter has to sneak closer to the animal he is hunting
without the animal noticing his presence. The hunter must also have enough experience to track
the animal and follow it after he shoots the animal because the animals most times do not die on
the spot. The hunter must follow the animal until it dies or gets exhausted. An example in the
hunters in the Kalahari Desert who shoots a warthog but it does not die on the spot, and they had
to follow it right to its hole and dig it up. Because the dark had set in they had to abandon the
hunt to avoid lion's attack. They have to come the next day to complete the task. After digging
the kill up, they also have to bury all the intestines to avoid being followed by the scavengers to
their home.

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2. According to the film, how is knowledge of animal behavior integr...