This course focuses on ancient human populations in Africa from the earliest Stone Age foragers more than 2.5 million years ago to more recent periods characterized by food production, urbanism, and inter-continental networks of trade and exchange, situating the African evidence into a broader understanding of the evolution of human diversity. The course use lectures, in-class discussions, museum collections, and student projects, and in addition to archaeology, draws on a number of allied disciplines including history, ethnography, linguistics, art history, geography, geology,...