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Field sites: Northern Tanzania

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Courses: Kiswahili ... Human Evolution ... Ecology of the Maasai Ecosystem ... Methods course and Field project

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Human Evolution

Fall 2008
Instructor: Dr. Audax Mabulla (Archaeology Unit, University of Dar es Salaam)
Required, 4 credits

Right: Near Laetoli. (Photo courtesy of Jon Wagner)

This course will be taught by archaeology faculty at the University of Dar es Salaam. It will cover the basic principles of evolution, hominid development, and the particular evidence of human evolution in Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli.

The course begins at the University of Dar es Salaam, continues with field trips in the Northern Region of Tanzania, and concludes with exams and papers in the final weeks of the program.

Above: Students in the field. (Photo courtesy of Holly Vetter)

Left: Students, faculty, staff and a Maasai guide prepare to remove a fossil hominid jaw from a 3.7 million-year-old volcanic tuff at Laetoli. (Photo courtesy of Jon Wagner)