DEMOGRAPHY, DIET, & DISEASE

This course provides an overview of the synergistic interactions of humans, theirdiets, and disease from prehistoric through contemporary populations. We willexplore the causes and consequences of major social transformations, includingthe shift from nomadic to sedentary life, animal and plant domestication,urbanism, and globalism through historical, bioarchaeological, epidemiologicaland anthropological lenses. We will learn the methods by which researchersreconstruct patterns of diet, disease and residential mobility in ancientpopulations, and how these ancient patterns compare and contrast to those inmodern contexts.