BAA 101L Quaternary Prehistory of Southern Africa
Instructor: Dr. Steve Churchill
This one-credit laboratory course will be taught by Dr. Churchill and qualified faculty assistants. Students will attend evening lectures and discussions in the field laboratories. Lecture material will cover the extant fauna and flora of southern Africa, Quaternary fauna and flora (focusing on the Cornelian and Florisian Land Mammal Ages), paleoenvironmental reconstruction, MSA archeology, dating methods applicable to the Quaternary, and Quaternary geology. Guest lectures will be incorporated in this course by local archeologists, palynologists and geologists. Students will work with recent and fossil faunal material and with stone tools in the laboratory, and the material covered in this course will be integrated with and reinforce the material in the field methods course.
(NS) NS, R.
Schedule depends on that of the Duke University Paleoanthropology Field School.
read about Dr. Churchill's research
e-mail Dr. Churchill
Syllabus from a previous year (somewhat different than 2005)