| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (2010) |
 Subjects |
| HUMAN PALEOCOLOGY |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2018_19 |
| Subject | HUMAN PALEOCOLOGY | Code | 12645107 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 4 | Compulsory | First | AN |
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| 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 |
