ARCH 433:Palaeo – Historical Demography of Africa

The course provides data on the development of human population in Africa from the Palaeolithic to the modern era, and deals with the methods and theories of research, distribution patterns of African prehistoric and historic populations, demographic variables of societal changes, demographic results of social, economic and cultural innovations in the last 300 years; multi-disciplinary approach in demographic enquiry and archaeological research designing for probing demographic patterns of a site complex.