YES: Margaret L. King, from Women of the Renaissance
NO: Joan Kelly-Gadol, from "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" in Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 2d ed.
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ISSUE 1. Did Homo Sapiens Originate in Africa?
YES: Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie, from African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
NO: Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari, from Race and Human Evolution
Science researcher Christopher Stringer and science writer Robin McKie state that modern humans first developed in Africa and then spread to other parts of the world. Paleoanthropologists Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari counter that modern humans developed simultaneously in different parts of the world.
ISSUE 2. Were the Aryans Responsible for the Demise of the Indus Valley Civilization?
YES: Stanley Wolpert, from A New History of India, 6th ed.
NO: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, from Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
Historian Stanley Wolpert states that the Aryan invasion of the Indus Valley did occur and that it played a role in the demise of the Indus Valley civilization. Archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer counters that there is little proof that the Aryan invasion occurred and that the decline of the Indus Valley civilization was due to internal environmental and social conditions.
ISSUE 3. Was Egyptian Civilization African?
YES: Clinton Crawford, from Recasting Ancient Egypt in the African Context: Toward a Model Curriculum Using Art and Language
NO: Kathryn A. Bard, from "Ancient Egyptians and the Issue of Race," in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, eds., Black Athena Revisited
Clinton Crawford, an assistant professor who specializes in African arts and languages as communications systems, asserts that evidence from the fields of anthropology, history, linguistics, and archaeology