HIS340 v1

Headrick, Daniel R. Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Read Chapters:
Chapter 1: “The Foragers” (pp. 9-34)
Chapter 2: “Farmers and Herders” (pp. 35-66)
Chapter 3: “Early Civilizations” (pp. 67-91)

Daniel Headrick, “The Foragers.” Chapter 1 in Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020): pp. 9-34. [required textbook chapter] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/reader.action?docID=6185264&ppg=20

Claire Brandes, “The Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis: An Optimal Foraging Perspective.” The Classic Journal 7:1. https://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/index.php/2021/12/13/the-pleistocene-overkill-hypothesis/

Nicole M. Waguespack & Todd A. Surovell, “Clovis Hunting Strategies, Or How to Make Out on Plentiful Resources.” American Antiquity 68: 2 (April 2003): 333-352. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.2307%2F3557083

Erwin Bulte, Richard D. Horan, and Jason F. Shogren. 2006. “Megafauna Extinction: A Paleoeconomic Theory of Human Overkill in the Pleistocene.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 59 (3): 297–323. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Fpii%2FS0167268105000946%3Fvia%253Dihub

Daniel Headrick, “Farmers and Herders.” Chapter 2 in Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020): pp. 35-66. [required textbook chapter] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/reader.action?docID=6185264&ppg=46

James C. Scott, “Zoonozes: A Perfect Epidemiological Storm” chapter 3 in Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven: Yale University Press (2017): pp. 93-115. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2Fj.ctv1bvnfk9.7

Katherine J. Latham, "Human Health and the Neolithic Revolution: An Overview of Impacts of the Agricultural Transition on Oral Health, Epidemiology, and the Human Body" (2013). Nebraska Anthropologist. 187. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/187

Jessica M. C. Pearce-Duvet, “The Origin of Human Pathogens: Evaluating the Role of Agriculture and Domestic Animals in the Evolution of Human Disease,” Biological Reviews 81 no 3 (2006), 369-82. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1017%2FS1464793106007020

Clark S. Larsen, “The Agricultural Revolution as Environmental Catastrophe: Implications for Health and Lifestyle in the Holocene,” Quaternary International 150 (2006): 12-20. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Fpii%2FS1040618206000334%3Fvia%253Dihub

Daniel Headrick, “Early Civilizations.” Chapter 3 in Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020): pp. 67-91. [required textbook chapter] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/reader.action?docID=6185264&ppg=78

Lucero, Lisa J. 2002. “The Collapse of the Classic Maya: A Case for the Role of Water Control.” American Anthropologist 104 (3): 814–26. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.3567259&site=eds-live&scope=site

Bazy, Damien, and Takeshi Inomata. 2017. “Multiple Waves of Political Disintegration in the Classic Maya Collapse: New Insights from the Excavation of Group D, Ceibal, Guatemala.” Journal of Field Archaeology 42 (2): 82–96. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.48542506&site=eds-live&scope=site

Roman, Sabin, Erika Palmer, and Markus Brede. 2018. “The Dynamics of Human–Environment Interactions in the Collapse of the Classic Maya.” Ecological Economics 146 (April): 312–24. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0921800917305578