ENVS2: Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment

Spring 2003, Prof. E. Carr Everbach

Hicks 217 X8079

Syllabus

Overview

 

Section 1: Early humans and their technologies

 

Modern human origins--faunal perspectives. Stiner, Mary C., Annual Review of Anthropology, 1993, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p55, 28 pages.

Domestication of Fire:

Fired up. McCrone, John, New Scientist, 05/20/2000, Vol. 166 Issue 2239, p30, 5p, 2 maps, 10c

Geological analysis damps ancient Chinese fires. Wuethrich, Bernice; Science, 07/10/98, Vol. 281 Issue 5374, p165, 2p, 1c

Did Homo erectus tame fire first? Balter, Michael; Science, 6/16/95, Vol. 268 Issue 5217, p1570, 1/2p

Hunting/Gathering Technologies:

Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids. Jean de Heinzelin, et al., Science, April 23, 1999, Vol. 284, Issue 5414, pp. 625-629

Hominid evolution; lifestyles and survival strategies. Ullrich, Herbert [editor], Ed. Archaea : Gelsenkirchen/Schwelm, Federal Republic of Germany, 1999.

Effect of Environment on Evolution:

Debating the environmental factors in hominid evolution. Feibel, Craig S., GSA Today, March 1997, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 1-7

Hominid evolution and the evolution of the environment. Coppens, Y., The Wenner-Gren international symposium on Behaviour of the earliest hominids; Ossa Solna, 1989, Vol. 14, pp. 157-163.

Evolution of the hominids and of their environment during the. Plio-Pleistocene in the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Coppens, Y., Bishop, W. W. [editor], Scottish Acad. Press : Edinburgh, Scot., 1978.

Evidence for the technical practices of early Pleistocene hominids, Shungura Formation, lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Chavaillon, J., Earliest man and environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin; stratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolution Prehistoric archeology and ecology series, Univ. Chicago Press : Chicago, Ill., 1976.

Megafauna Extinction. National Public Radio

Aboriginal Climate Change. National Public Radio

 

Section 2: Early Agriculture/Farming/Fishing

A Green history of the world: the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Clive Ponting; St. Martin's Press, 1992. Ch. 1.

Ibid, Ch. 13.

From Wolf to Dog, Yes, but When?, Nicholas Wade, New York Times, Nov. 22, 2002.

 

Section 3: Age of Exploration (and War)

A Green history of the world: the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Clive Ponting; St. Martin's Press, 1992. Ch. 6.

Global Ecology in Human Perspective. Charles Southwick; Oxford UP, 1996. Ch. 24

Plagues and Peoples, Ch. 1-3.

Guns, germs and steel. Jared Diamond; W. W. Norton, 1999. Ch. 4-6.

 

Section 4: Printing Press, Literacy, and the Reformation

 

Section : Industrial Revolution

Alfred W. Crosby, ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM: THE BIOLOGICAL EXPANSION OF EUROPE (1986).

Merritt Roe Smith and Greg Clancey, eds., MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), Ch. 1, 6.

 

Section 5: Agriculture and the Green Revolution

Global Ecology in Human Perspective. Charles Southwick; Oxford UP, 1996. Ch. 16

Merritt Roe Smith and Greg Clancey, eds., MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), Ch 11.

Andrew C. Isenberg, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BISON (Cambridge UP, 2000).

 

Section 6: Global Climate change

Global Ecology in Human Perspective. Charles Southwick; Oxford UP, 1996. Ch. 18

 

Section 7: Information Age

 

Leo Marx, THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN (Oxford UP, 1964).

William Cronon, CHANGES IN THE LAND (1987?).

Modes of Prophecy and Production: Placing Nature in History, William Cronon, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 76 (Mar. 1990): 1122-31.

 

Section 8: The future of Technology

Global Ecology in Human Perspective. Charles Southwick; Oxford UP, 1996. Ch. 25-26.

Carolyn Merchant, ed., MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY(Houghton Mifflin, 1993), Ch. 3, 4, 7, 9.

 

Section 9: Student Project Presentations

 

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