Spring 2023

ANTHRO 129D 001 - LEC 001

Human Palaeoecology: How Humans Changed the Earth

Lisa A Maher

Jan 17, 2023 - May 05, 2023

Tu, Th

12:30 pm - 01:59 pm

2251 College 101

Class #:30671

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Anthropology

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 8

Enrolled: 37

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 45

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

3 unreserved seats

5 reserved for Anthropology Majors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.

Since the end of the Pleistocene and especially with the development of agriculturally based societies humans have had cumulative and often irreversible impacts on natural landscapes and biotic resources worldwide. Thus "global change" and the biodiversity crisis are not exclusively developments of the industrial and post‐industrial world. This course uses a multi‐disciplinary approach, drawing upon methods and data from archaeology, palynology, geomorphology, paleontology, and historical ecology to unravel the broad trends of human ecodynamics over the past 50,000 years.

Class Description

Since the end of the Pleistocene and especially with the development of agriculturally based societies humans have had cumulative and often irreversible impacts on natural landscapes and biotic resources worldwide. Thus "global change" and the biodiversity crisis are not exclusively developments of the industrial and post-industrial world. This course uses a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon methods and data from archaeology, palynology, geomorphology, paleontology, and historical ecology to unravel the broad trends of human ecodynamics over the past 50,000 years.