Research Paper

Your Research Paper assignment is a 1200 to 2000 word (not counting your bibliography) informative research paper on a topic of your choosing, as long as
it pertains to anthropology. Font will be 12pt in Times New Roman (or something very similar), one-inch margins and double-spaced. I will require a header at
the top each page with your name and class, in a similar fashion to the header at the top of this page. Please include page numbers on a corner of each page
of your paper. Do not include a title page, rather a bolded title at the top of the first page (similar to this document). Do not over-space the top of the
document. The format of your paper will be in accordance with the American Anthropology Association (AAA) style guide Appropriate topics include, but are
not limited to, evolutionary theory, primatology, paleopathology, human skeletal biology, genetic studies, forensics, etc. This can be a fun investigation of
something you find interesting! If you are interested in a topic but you’re not sure it is appropriate for this paper, email me and I will let you know. If you have
no idea what to pick, reach out to me, I will help you pick a topic.
You will finish your paper with a paragraph talking about why peer-reviewed journals are important You will be responsible for finding at least 3 journal
articles that are related to your topic of interest and using their content to support your paper. As this is an academic paper, sources must be academic peerreviewed journals, which means no blogs, no wikipedia, no newspapers (yes this includes National Geographic and Smithsonian). Some books may be
acceptable, but I would advise against their use, as it may be hard to ferret out what would work and what will lose you points