This unit examines two key areas of human activity that are subject to archaeological analysis: colonisation and contact. It explores the archaeology of colonisation and contacts using examples from different geographic regions and time periods including Eurasia, Australasia, the Pacific, the Americas, the North Atlantic Rim and the Arctic Circle. The unit explores the archaeological evidence for initial colonisation of regions, as well as the contacts that occurred resulting from human migrations. Specific attention is paid to human-environmental interactions, and the ways that colonisation is modelled. An emphasis is on the archaeological evidence of contacts between hunter-foragers and... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Alistair Paterson
Prerequisites: any Level 1 Archaeology unit
