Abstract
Have you ever wondered where we come from? Why humans domesticated plants and animals or invented writing and mathematics? Why civilizations rise and fall? This course addresses these questions, among others, while charting the earliest chapters of the human story. Following the emergence of modern humans in Africa, we trace the course of human history through Ice Age Europe and the Fertile Crescent to the collapse of the Inca Empire. Along the way we will focus on key cultural developments, examine important archaeological sites, survey major civilizations, and discuss the ideas, methods, and theories that archaeologists have set forth to understand our past and the trajectory of pre/history; in the end, we will examine our own society’s archaeological record and ponder the future.
| Original language | American English |
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| State | Published - 2019 |
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Archaeological Anthropology