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Apr 25, 2024
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GEOL189A PO - Geoarchaeology; Stone Age through Bronze AgeWhen Offered: Fall 2020.
Instructor(s): W. McLaughlin
Credit: 1
Geology provides an excellent tool to examine how landscapes, climates, and the organisms inhabiting them drove the rise (and fall) of civilizations. In this course we will concentrate on the Stone Age through the Bronze Age, looking at how we became a species, how our species spread across the globe, and how events like the domestication of plants and animals to climate change shaped ancient people’s lives. How can geology help us to trace the invention of tools, the development of complex trade routes, and even the invention of art? How did interactions with prehistoric beasts shape our world, inform our legends, and lead to the domestic plants and animals of today? And finally how have changing climates left their mark on both the rock record and archaeological record, driving the ascension and collapse of civilizations? Letter grade only. Prerequisites: GEOL 015 PO, or any version of a GEOL020 course, or EA 055L KS or EA 100L KS or permission of instructor.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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