WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

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Prerequisite: ANT 100 or Instructor permission.A broad outline of global hominin/human material culture through space and time from the origins of stone tools (2.5 million years ago) through to the rise of complex societies with monumental architecture approximately 1550 CE/AD as inferred from the archaeological record. Past cultures of hunter-gatherers-fishers, the first farmers, and early civilizations. Methods and theories that archaeologists use to interpret recovered archaeological data in a wide variety of forms. Offered every other spring semester, odd years.