ANT 507E - Humans in Their Environments

Course Objectives

1. To teach the long history of human-environment interactions,
2. Discuss various cases of environmental change, resource use, and environmental adaptation around the globe,
3. Assess the processes of change and feedback mechanisms

Course Description

This course focuses on; Ecosystem, Human-environment interactions, Methods for studying past environments, Application of methods for studying past environments, Methods for studying past human ecology, Ecological decision-making, Case studies for ecological decision-making, The earliest human impacts on environments, Pleistocene human expansion, Holocene hunter-gatherers, Agrarian societies, Case studies for Pleistocene impacts, Case studies for impacts of agrarian societies, and Case studies for inter-regional impacts.