Hunting & Gathering Societies

Catalog description

This course explores non-industrial societies across the globe, investigating how humans interact with the environment, respond to climate change, cope with variations in resources, and manage social and political conflicts. Utilizing both the ethnographic and archaeological records, students investigate societies from the Arctic to tropical forests. The course also examines models and techniques used to analyze variation in human behavior, focusing on hunter-gatherer foraging choices, demography, division of labor, sharing, and social inequity.