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This course is intended to introduce students to the environmental processes affecting the settlement of the South West Pacific over the last 100,000 years. The course will cover the physical context of human migration to Australia, Micronesia, Polynesia and New Zealand. It will include topics such as the impact of climate and sea level change on migration patterns and subsequent human impacts on landscapes including environmental degradation due to burning, resource depletion and megafauna extinction. The course will provide students with an underpinning in Earth Science principles and Archaeological techniques.
This course is intended to introduce students to the environmental processes affecting the settlement of the South West Pacific over the last 100,000 years. This course will cover the physical context of human migration to Australia, Micronesia, Polynesia and New Zealand. It will include topics such as the impact of climate and sea level change on migration patterns and subsequent human impacts on landscapes including environmental degradation due to burning, resource depletion and megafauna extinction. The course will provide students with an underpinning in Earth Science principles and Archaeological techniques. What the course entails:Three lectures per week, one fortnightly laboratory and two one-day field trips.What you need for this course:Just enthusiasm and interest! This introductory course is suitable for students with no previous experience in geology or other science subjects. What this course gets you into:This is a general interest course but a pass in GEOL114 may substitute for one of the normal prerequisites, GEOL111 and GEOL112, needed to proceed to GEOL 200 level courses.
PACS101
Friday labs/tutorials are held in Stage 1 Laboratory, Room 101 Geological Sciences
Kari Bassett
Jamie Shulmeister , David Nobes and Roger Fyfe (Aprf/ canterbury museum)
Richard Holdaway (Dept of Geological Sciences) and Prf Karen Nero (The Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies)
Flannery, Tim F; The future eaters : an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people ; Reed Books, 1994.
Howe, K. R; The quest for origins : who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific islands? ; Penguin Books, 2003.
Worthy, T. H. , Holdaway, Richard N; The lost world of the moa : prehistoric life of New Zealand ; Indiana University Press, 2001.
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Domestic fee $727.00
International fee $3,085.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Geological Sciences .