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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 impace 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.
GEOL114
Kari Bassett
David Nobes , Jamie Shulmeister , Roger Fyfe (Aprf/ canterbury museum) and visiting Erskine Prof. Art Bettis
Prf Karen Nero (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies) and Dr. Richard Holdaway (Dept of Geological Sciences)
Field trip report 04 April 2007-15%Lab exercise/test- 10%Oral presentation-15%Examination-60%
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 $590.00
International fee $2,400.00
* 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 Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies .