This course aims to provide the student with an overview of modern environmental archaeology as a tool for the interdisciplinary investigation of past and present global change and to engage the long term past with current issues of sustainability and rapid environmental change. Past human impact on environment, climate impacts, and the environmental components of culture contact, imperial expansion, and early globalization are all major topics for discussion. Case studies will be used to focus discussion and as subjects for student led presentations.

Prerequisites/Rules:
Credits: 3
Grading Method: Regular, Pass-Fail, Audit
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