SUBJECT

Human ecology II

lecture

master

Faculty of Science

Environmental Science MSc

2

Semester 4

Spring semester

• Methods of reconstruction in population dynamics in the different periods of human evolution
• The influences of Pleistocen climate pulsation on the origin and differentiation of modern Homo sapiens, the monocentric and policentric model
• The relation of man from historical eras to the natural environment: introduction to environmental archaeology, methods in environmental archaeology
• Reconstructions in environmental archaeology, the controversies in the migrations of different cultures, the harmony of zonal environmental conditions
• Dispersion patterns of paleo-ecological human populations: random, compliant, dispersions of fossils, morphological variations
• Functional (adaptation) bone morphology: diversity in morphological variations, theoretical morphology, structure analysis
• Ecosystems and communities in paleoecology: community theory, community awareness: Q and R analyses, community structures, diversity, methods to estimate diversity, diversity patterns, the studies of communities in the paleo-environmental reconstruction
• The increase of paleo-communities, ecological characteristics, the influences of paleo-communities on human ecosystems
• Paleo-biogeography I: factors influencing the geographical spread of human populations: depth-height, temperature, geological factors
• The prevalence of infectious and non-infectious diseases in the ancient human populations, ancient healing techniques, trephinations
• The environmental changes of the Carpathian basin, their influences on the human populations (e.g.: changes in the climate, vegetal and animal factors)
• The environmental changes of the Carpathian basin caused by human influences: gathering, hunting climate changes, the decay of natural vegetations, agricultural influences
• The human lifestyle in the Paleolitic and Mesolithic eras int he Carpathian basin
• The environmental change in the Roman, Conquest and Arpad ages

• Dodd, J.R., Stanton, R.J. (1990) Paleoecology. Concepts and applications. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
• Freye, H-A. (1985) Humanökologie. Fischer Verlag, Jena. Marten, G.G. (2001) Human Ecology. Eartscan, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1853837142.
• Bates, D.G., Tucker, J. (2010) Human Ecology. Contemporary Research and Practice. Springer, Leipzig, Germany. ISBN: 978-1-4419-5700-9.
• Gates, G.B., Lees, S.H. (2015) Case Studies in Human Ecology. Springer, Leipzig, Germany. EBook.