Overview
Description
Economic approaches to hunter-gatherer archaeology.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the historical development of economic anthropology as a discipline.
- define and correctly use such fundamental economic ideas like land, labor, capital, and return.
- describe and compare global prehistoric economies from the Paleolithic to the Late Holocene.
- evaluate the relationships operating between population, resources, technology, social structure, politics and ideology in prehistoric economies.
- synthesize empirical and theoretical knowledge gained through the course to arrive at a general theory of the roots of human economic behavior.