LITHICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

3 credits.

Explores the ways in which humans have used of rocks and associated minerals, i.e. lithics and lapidary technology, to create utilitarian as well as ornamental objects in the past and the present. Explores gender roles in lithic technology and how specific technologies were used to create utilitarian as well as ornamental and symbolic objects. Gain a new perspective of the critical role of lithic technologies in long term human adaptive strategies as well as in ornament and symbolic art.