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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Prereq: 9 hrs ANTH including ANTH 232. Introduction to the history of archaeological research, taxonomic issues, cultural sequences, and current research topics within the Great Plains area of North America.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Lec 3. Prereq: ANTH 232. Introduction to the nature and purpose of historic preservation as it pertains to resource management and archaeological research. Legislation that forms the basis for: cultural resource management principles; integration of state programs; and archaeological contractors; within the overall framework of land modification planning.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Lec. Introduction to the prehistory of the Maya region and its periphery. Features of the Ancient Maya political, economic, religious, gender and material structures. Main substantive, theoretical and political debates in Mesoamerican scholarship. Interdisciplinary research and the types of methods used to create knowledge about Maya civilizations.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Lec 3. Prereq: ANTH 242 or equivalent. Topics drawn from the wide breadth of Old World prehistory. Archaeological data relevant to selected theoretical or topical problems.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 12 hrs anthropology. Development and organizational variability of past preindustrial civilizations. State formation and their evaluation through use of the archaeological record. Exposure to general archaeological and anthropological problems posed by complex societies. Data bases include preindustrial civilizations from Mesopotamia, Africa, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Polynesia, Mexico, and Peru.
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3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Biological variation of modern humans worldwide through time and space. Standard measurements of phenotypic, e.g. elementary anthropometry. Biological adaptation to environment using recent theoretical perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Lec 3. Prereq: ANTH 351 or 352. Political, economic, and social issues concerning indigenous peoples in North America.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prereq: ANTH 212 or upper division anthropology course, and permission. Advanced comparative study of the contemporary populations in a selected area of North America (occasionally outside of the US) that combine the traditional survey of ethnographic literature with personal observation and participation in rural, urban, or traditional settings. Ethnographic focus (e.g., Native Americans or recent immigrants to the US) changes depending on research opportunities.
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3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Prereq: ANTH 242 or equivalent. Behavior, diet, and nutrition throughout the span of human evolution. Human food procurement and food production in both past and present societies throughout the world. Food acquisition and processing technology. Food storage, synergistic relationships between nutrition, health, and demography. Toxins, antinutrients, and parasites. Foods as medicine and drugs, food taboos, and prohibitions. Food and socioeconomic status, famine, and applied nutrition. Archaeological and crosscultural cases involving human diet and nutrition within an evolutionary ecological framework.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 12 hrs anthropology. Cross-cultural examination of the structure, form, and functions of belief systems. Emphasis on the interrelationship between the ideological subsystem of a culture and its social, political, and economic organization. Primitive and contemporary societies.
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