Archaeology I

3 credits · Graduate credit

Roughly half of this course is devoted to developing models of the operation and evolution of hunter-gatherer cultural systems and to discussing the ways in which these systems may be studied from the archaeological record. The second half of the course consists of a review of the archaeological evidence from the evolution of these cultural systems from their earliest appearance until the beginnings of sedentary agricultural communities. Emphasis is given to Africa with brief attention paid to Asia and the New World.