Emphasis is on technology choice and its long term social and ecological consequences.
The course includes films, museum visits and hands on experience with reconstructions of tools and weapons. The term paper assignment may be presented as a multi-media, hypertext document.
This course is one in a sequence of two courses. tracing the evolution of technology and human environmental adaptations in selected regions in the New World from the arrival of human populations to the present.
More detailed information can be obtained by "clicking" on individual items in the list below and by e-mail from the instructor at the address below.
