Dec. 8, 2016
Winter Session: December 19, 2016-January 10, 2017
William A. White, Instructor
Online Course; 3 credit hours
Overview of ancient Africa's contribution to global culture and scholarship prior to 1500 A.D. AFAS 365 online explains how civiliation and human development in the early history of Africa are part of a dynamic process centered on climate change, migration, technological creations and innovations, sedentary (agricultural) and pastoral (herding) lifestyles, shifting cosmologies (or world views), social stratification, and long distance trade.