ANTH 5317 - First Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours Lecture: 3
Contact Hours Lab: 0

The peopling of the Western Hemisphere is a contentious and exciting topic, with inherent political ramifications in the modern world. In this course students will learn the theories and hard data regarding the earliest peoples to explore and occupy North and South America, when they first arrived, where they came from, the technologies they employed, which modern populations they are most closely related to genetically, and the potential impacts they had on the Pleistocene landscape, including their possible role in the extinction of numerous genre of Pleistocene megafauna. Cross-listed with ANTH 4310.

Course Level: Graduate