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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1 or Biological Sciences 1B or consent of instructor. Use of DNA and other genetic polymorphisms to test hypotheses regarding genetic relationships among different Native American tribal groups and about prehistoric population replacements and migrations to and within the Americas. Integration with craniometric, archaeological, paleoenvironmental, linguistic and ethnohistorical evidence.-III. (III.) D. Smith
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5.00 Credits
Web virtual lecture-3 hours; web electronic discussion-1 hour; term paper. Introduction to the biology of birth, childhood, marriage, the family, old age, and death. Examines comparative characteristics of nonhuman primates and other animals as well as cross cultural variation in humans by study of selected cases. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 15. GE credit: SciEng, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:courses 1 and 3. Introduction to history and development of archeological theory and method, with particular emphasis on the basic dependence of the latter on the former. Stress is on historical development of archaeology in the New World. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.) Bettinger
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 3. Theories, methods, and techniques for studying the geomorphic context of archeological sites. Particular attention to sediment and soil attributes and analyses for understanding important local landform features and developmental histories of archeological sites. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 3 or consent of instructor. Survey of data relating to the peopling of the New World. Cultural adaptation and development of early inhabitants of North and South America. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 3 or consent of instructor; course 170 recommended. Introduction to and survey of prehistoric hunting and gathering adaptations across North America with particular emphasis on the East, Southeast, Midwest, Plains, Southwest, and Northwest. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 3. Prehistory of the Andean region, especially Peru, from the earliest hunting and gathering societies through the Inca. Focus on the use of archaeological data to reconstruct ancient human adaptations to the varied Andean environments.-I. (I.) Eerkens
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 3 or consent of instructor. Description and analysis of the prehistoric peoples of California and the Great Basin from earliest times to European contact. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 2. Study and interpretation of the ancient and modern lifeway in which peoples support themselves with primitive technologies and without benefit of domesticated plants and animals. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. (III.) Bettinger
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion/laboratory-3 hours.Prerequisite: course 1 and 3 or consent of instructor. Theories and methods for studying animal skeletal remains from archaeological sites. Identification and quantification of zooarchaeological material, cultural and natural processes affecting animal bones pre and postburial, and use of faunal remains for determining past human diets and past environments. Offered in alternate years.-II. (II.) Darwent
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