ANTH646

The period since the last glacial maximum--roughly the last 20,000 years--is characterized by both dramatic climate change and diverse human trajectories. Survey that diversity and highlight some key global themes: the origins of domestication and agriculture in various contexts, alternative pathways to intensification of food production, human responses to climate change, and the Early Anthropocene. Students will engage with both primary and secondary literature in a seminar format with an emphasis on critical reading and the evidentiary bases for claims about the human past.