An introduction of archival research, historic and prehistoric site recognition, shovel-test surveys, basic mapping and measuring techniques, excavation strategies, pottery reconstruction, writing field logs, cataloging artifacts, drawing stratigraphic sections and plans, and evaluating dating techniques. This is a course designed to introduce the students to the many facets of the world's largest industry, tourism. The approach is multidisciplinary focusing on such issues as work and leisure, tradition and modernity, growth and pollution, security and terrorism, privilege and servitude. An introduction to paleoanthropology including an overview of the genetic, anatomical, geological, primatological, and archaeological information needed to examine and survey the fossil record of human evolution, beginning about four million years ago. An introduction to the prehistory of the United States and Canada from the entrance of humans into the New World, through subsequent cultural developments until the arrival of the Europeans.
Emphasis is placed on ecological factors and the rise of agricultural economics.
An introduction to the traditional Indian population of South America, including a discussion of the peopling of South America and descriptions of the technological, social, political, economic, and religious patterns of Indian groups at the time they were first encountered. It concludes with an analysis of some of the changes that occurred as a result of contact with Europeans. Course deals with the cultures of the North American Indians. It is concerned with their adaptation to varied ecological situations, social and political organization, religious beliefs and practices, life cycle, and arts. A lecture course that introduces the traditional societies and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa.