OSHER 632 - Archeology: Prehistory of Utah

Examine 12,000 years of human adaptations to the desert environments of Utah, including the last Ice Age hunters, the resiliency of Archaic hunters and gatherers, the first farmers, the emergence and subsequent demise of the Fremont and Anasazi farming cultures, and the arrival of ancestral Utes. The course will examine various archaeological theories within the context of the history of archaeological research, with a focus on the modern methods used to analyze and interpret the archaeological record.