ANTH 110 - Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory

    Recent Professors
    Not yet assigned
    Recent Semesters
    No scheduled sections on record
    Class Size
    Not published
    Credits
    3
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4A · CSU GE Area D1
    Description
    (No prerequisite.) This course includes the methods of recovery, analysis and interpretation of material culture, current research questions, current controversies, frauds of the past, ethical problems confronting the archaeologist and some of the spectacular discoveries. Some of the questions to be explored include the origin of art and writing, the evolution of tool making, how and why agriculture began, why civilizations rose and fell, and who settled the Americas. (CSU/UC) AA/AS COM GE Area 4, Cal-GETC Area 4, C-ID: ANTH 150 (formerly AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D, IGETC Area 4)