One hour of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prehistoric Archaeology of Oklahoma Native American cultures of the Southern Plains during the 12,000 years before European contact. North American Indians Survey of native peoples and cultures of the United States and Canada. Emphasis on the effects of European contacts and problems of modern Indians. Sociolinguistics Anthropology of communication, including analysis of speech events, language, status and gender, language and identity, political and economic language, cognitive anthropology, cultural classification systems, and ethnoscience.
Students conduct research in the Tulsa speech community.
Anth 2023 or 2043. Human Origins Explores the evidence for human evolution and diversification in the past. Models of the ancestry of man and the evolution of human characteristics are developed. Chronological, morphological, and cultural contexts of fossil forms are presented and evaluated. Old World Prehistory Examines the prehistoric cultures of Europe, Africa, and Asia.