ANTH 450 - Southwest Archaeology

3 Credit(s)

This course explores the greater Southwest from the earliest human inhabitants to Spanish colonization. We will discuss significant changes and trends in subsistence, technology, social systems, and political organization over roughly 15,000 years; from hunter-gatherers following mammoths on the landscape to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The course will give students an appreciation of the adaptations of people in the Southwest to an often harsh environment, while also introducing them to the methods and theories archaeologists use to understand the past.