Mathematics is An academic discipline – branch of knowledge that is taught at all levels of education and researched typically at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.

This course explores the totality of human experience on earth, as known through archaeology, from the beginnings of humankind into the present.  Course content is not organized chronologically or regionally, but thematically, focusing on how humans have made themselves and their worlds in the past and continue to do so today. It is an archaeological contribution to the anthropological question, “What makes us human?”  An anthropological archaeology can inform us of where we come from, how we got to where we are today, and where we might be going in the future.