Topics include human heredity, mechanisms of evolutionary change, human variation, and the reconstruction of human evolutionary history through the study of the fossil record and the study of our closest biological relatives, the living monkeys and apes. Lecture 3 hours. May be offered as an honors section. Presents a broad survey of human culture including the study of human society, language, religion, political and economic organization, with examples drawn from contemporary preliterate, peasant, and urban societies. Considers archaeology as an integral part of the larger field of anthropology.
Course deals with the methods the archaeologist uses to view the world of the past.
The methods discussed illustrate the techniques used by the archaeologist to gather and interpret the data recovered from excavation. CSU Lecture 3 hours. Same as Linguistics 1. Credit not given for both courses. Surveys the great variety of ways humans communicate, both verbally and non-verbally.