This unit traces the biological, social and cultural factors and processes that contributed to our 'becoming human'. It begins by discussing what it can mean to be human and how these characteristics and behaviours might be identifiable in the archaeological record. It then discusses the evidence for these behaviours from the deep past to about 10,000 years ago, when all continents (apart from Antarctica) were settled by people who expressed their 'humanness' in different ways.<br/><br/>The unit has been nominated as a Category A broadening unit because it examines the global archaeological evidence of the interrelationships between cultural and biological processes leading to the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Ben Smith
Prerequisites: 12 points of Level 1 study in archaeology, anatomy, anthropology or classics and ancient history
