Theme 1: Africa

Week 1: Prehistoric Africa: Human Origins, Migration, and Settlement of the African Continent

Map showing the locations of the four UNESCO world heritage sites in eastern and southern Africa where hominid fossil discoveries have helped our understanding of human origins and evolution

Go to the Blackboard for questions to guide class readings/activities on this topic

Read: Chris Gosden, PreHistory: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018). Our focus will be mainly Chapter 3

https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198803515.001.0001/actrade-9780198803515

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