Course Description: An overview of the prehistoric cultures of the Old and NewWorlds from the emergence of the first hominins to the dawn of history.
Learning Ob jectives: To develop a working knowlege of global culture history before the European conquest of Africa, Oceania, and the New World based on the findings from archaeology and paleoanthropology. Students should develop preliminary understanding of: (1) the fossil record of human evolution; (2) the processes that shape cultural change; (3) human ecology including demographic, genetic, and environmental dimensions of human adaptations (4) the historical place of humans today around the globe; (5) the history and impact of human resource utilization; (6) critical evaluation of scientific theories and related empirical evidence.
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