ANT 450 - Hunters-Gatherers

The economy, ecology and culture of peoples whose subsistence economy depends extensively upon hunting animals and collecting non-domesticated plants. Focus will be on the prehistory of hunting and gathering, interactions between hunter-gatherers and their environment, explaining the diversity in patterns of culture and behavior among pre-colonial populations, and the effects of colonialism and culture change on hunter-gatherer life-ways.

Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

Prerequisites
ANT 102 or ANT 300 or permission.

Credits: 3