Becoming Human: Archaeology of Human Origins

ANTHROPOLOGY 3271

Humanity, before the advent of agriculture and cities, evolved a series of behaviors that enabled them to survive as hunter-gatherers in diverse environments with complex cultural systems. These behaviors included hunting, control of fire, shelters and clothing, elaborate tools of diverse materials, burials, jewelry, and representational art. These characteristics emerged over more than 2 millions years of the Pleistocene across several species of humans, to coalesce into what we would recognize as modern human foragers 30,000 years ago. This course traces that emergence of what it means to be human, through the Paleolithic archeological record in its context of past environments and past human forms.
Course Attributes: EN S; AS SSC; FA SSC; AR SSC

Section 01

Becoming Human: Archaeology of Human Origins
INSTRUCTOR: Hores