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ANTH 411 - Settlement of the Americas

Introduction to initial human settlement of the western hemisphere. Major themes include: chronology and migration routes of early settlement; important archeological sites in North, Central, and South America, environmental and landscape change, human impacts on environments, theories of human biogeography (migration and colonization), and current methods accelerating the pace of discoveries.

Credits: 3