ARCH 212 — Foundations of Old and New World Civilizations
Archaeology and Heritage Studies · University of Ghana
The course will guide the student to understand the evolution of human beings, and the spread of early peoples across Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia. It will deal with environmental, demographic, technological, economic and other changes by which people turned from foraging to food-production. Factors that led to the development of the world‘s earliest ―civilizations‖ in the Near East, Meso-America, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China will be examined.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- ARCH 211 — Fundamentals of Archaeological Science
- ARCH 213 — Human Origins and Cultural Foundations in Africa
- ARCH 214 — Early Civilizations of Africa
- ARCH 111 — Approaches to the Study of the Past
- ARCH 112 — Archaeology and the African Cultural Heritage
- ARCH 321 — Archaeology and the Natural Environment
- ARCH 322 — Archaeology of West Africa: 500 B.C. – A.D. 1950
- ARCH 323 — Method and Theory of Archaeology
- ARCH 324 — Ethno-Archaeology of Africa
- ARCH 325 — Foragers and Far ers in West Africa’s Prehistory
- ARCH 326 — Public Policy and Heritage Management in Ghana
- ARCH 327 — Introduction to Theories of Culture
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).