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Modern Links to Ancient Lives and Landscapes
Using contemporary observations and laboratory and field experiments in a variety of habitats and ecosystems to understand the impact of humans and natural processes on the geological and archaeological record.
Instructor: John Cavallo
Text: Butzer, K.W., 1982, Archaeology as Human Ecology: Cambridge University Press
Syllabus
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Introduction to survey and excavation techniques, cultural and natural stratigraphy, site formation processes, post-depositional processes |
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Interdisciplinary approaches to interpreting the past; zooarchaeology, paleobotany, taphonomy, primatology and replicate studies |
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Theoretical foundations, history, and applications of middle-range research and actualistic studies |
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Case study 1--Spawning behavior and habitat preferences of modern migratory fish to explain Middle Woodland Sites |
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Case study 2--White-tail deer behavior, ecology and biology together with soils, vegetational and fossil pollen |
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Case study 3--Inferring prehistoric Native American hunting strategies using white-tail deer remains |
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Case study 4--Modern behavior, ecology and competitive interactions of leopards, lions, hyenas, baboons and vultures in the Serengeti |
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Case study 5--The Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Program |
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Case study 5--The Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Program |
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Case study 6--Prehistoric Native American pithouse structures or prehistoric tree-throws: an archaeological, geomorphological and geochemical analysis |
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Case study 6--Prehistoric Native American pithouse structures or prehistoric tree-throws: an archaeological, geomorphological and geochemical analysis |
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Case study 7--Using the behavior and ecology of modern primates as analogs for modelling Plio-Pleistocene hominid behavior and foraging strategies |
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