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Course Name	Turkish	İnsan ve Çevresi
	English	Humans in Their Environments
Course Code	ANT 507E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	1
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Bülent Arıkan Nihan Naiboğlu
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.
Course Outcomes		1. Human interactions with environment since the Pleistocene, 2. Environmental changes around the globe during the last 2,5 million years, 3. Adaptations to these changes, 4. Human-environment interactions in the last 12 thousand years.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		The Archaeology of Environmental Change, Hill, J.B. ve diğerleri, 2015, University of Arizona Press
Other References		1) Archaeology as Human Ecology, Butzer, K. W. 1982, Cambridhe University Press 2) Human Impact on Ancient Environments, Redman, C.L., 1999, University of Wrizona Press

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