Museum Courses

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SIGN UP FOR ANY COURSE:

Please telephone Sylvia Hixson Andrews at 01258 458911

or contact by email at s.hixsonandrews@uwclub.net

The Blandford Museum

holds courses

throughout the year

on a variety of subjects.

The ones shown here

run on a regular basis,

but others may be held

at different times.

Please contact the

museum for information

about current courses.

Human Evolution and Archaeology

Will start in September and meet on Thursday from 7-9PM

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

This course is for learners with an interest in how humans evolved, what the looked like and how they lived. It is an

introductory course leading to more detailed courses and has no prerequisites.

WHAT IS THE COURSE ABOUT?

This course will introduce a wide range of subjects important in the study of human evolution. Some concepts in anatomy,

primatology and genetics will be covered so that we can interpret the fossil record. The concepts will be covered at an

introductory level using slides, overheads, fossils, casts and artefacts. There will be guest speakers who are authorities

in their fields who will discuss the material with learners. Many opportunities to closely examine the artefacts and fossil

casts will be made available. This course is designed to provide the learner with a solid understanding of how we became

the human race.

WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED?

By the end of the course the learner will be conversant on many of the major concepts in the study of our human past.

They will have a good grasp of the continuity of human life from its beginnings in Africa to today. The subjects covered

will also prepare the learner to take other more detailed courses in archaeology.

This course is for Learners with an interest in when and how people came to be in southern England and how they lived.

It is an introductory course that can lead to more detailed courses and has no prerequisites.

This course will introduce a wide range of subjects in the study of local archaeology such as how to reconstruct past

environments and how to recognise artefacts and interpret their use and their cultural impact. The concepts will be

casts and artefacts. There will be guest speakers who are authorities in their fields who will discuss the material with

closely examine the artefacts and fossil casts will be made available and at least one field trip is planned. This course is

designed to allow the learner to sample a wide variety of topics spanning the earliest known appearances of man in

England through to the beginnings of historic times. These topics can then be followed up in a variety other courses.

By the end of the course the learner will be conversant on many of the major concepts in the study of local archaeology.

They will possess a clear idea of not only the local sites and their significance, but the means by which archaeologists study

the past. The learner will also be very well prepared to take other more detailed courses in archaeology.

Dr Sylvia Hixson Andrews obtained her PhD in Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley in the U.S. She spent several

years at the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley and has worked at archaeological and palaeontological sites in

the U.S., Africa, and Pakistan. Guest speakers include authorities in geology, palaeontology, archaeology and local