Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (2010) |
Subjects |
HUMAN PALEOCOLOGY |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2017_18 |
Subject | HUMAN PALEOCOLOGY | Code | 12645107 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
4 | Compulsory | First | AN |
Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
I. History of Quaternary climates and environments | - Evolution of the climatic conditions - Environmental changes through the Quaternary |
II. From neoecology to paleoecology | - History of paleoecology - Basics on ecology - Concepts for paleoenvironmental reconstruction - Hutton’s principle of uniformitarianism |
III. Reconstruction of Pleistocene environments and habitats. Part 1: Autecology. Part 2: Synecology | - Reconstruction at different temporal and spatial scales: cenograms, histograms, ecomorphology, stable isotopes, tooth wear - From assemblages to associations (food webs and carrying capacity) - Interactions: predation, competition, niche separation |
IV. Human responses to environmental change | - Hypotheses of hominin evolutionary ecology - Variability selection hypothesis - Ecology of social transitions |