ANTH 527 - THE HOLOCENE

3 cr hrs

Description This course focuses on the perspectives, methods, and data that archaeology and sustainability fields can bring to discussions of climate variation. We will consider the importance of paleoenvironmental data to archaeological research, the ways in which it can be used, and the various methods of recovering and analyzing such data to reconstruct human-environment interactions in the Holocene, the epoch that encompasses the past 10,000 years.

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