GEOL114-05S1 (U) Semester One 2005 (University Campus)

Geoarchaeology: Peopling the Pacific

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2005
End Date: Saturday, 2 July 2005
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2005
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 May 2005

Description

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.

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Equivalent Courses

For further information see Geological Sciences .

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