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ANTH 3

WORLD PREHISTORY: THE RISE & FALL OF EARLY CIVILIZATIONS · 4 units · used in 42 transfer pathways

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About this course

Survey of world prehistory as reconstructed by archaeologists. Human culture history from Stone Age beginnings to establishment and collapse of the world's first major civilizations. Covers societies from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. Introduction to archaeological methods and interpretation. First use of tools, social complexity, urbanization, domestication of plants and animals, and the rise and fall of civilizations.

Sections this term

Fall 2026 · updated Sep 3, 3:00 PM UTC

No section is scheduled at Foothill College for Fall 2026. The course can still be offered in a later quarter.

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Prerequisites

The Foothill catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.

Transfer pathways that use ANTH 3

ASSIST maps ANTH 3 to a requirement in 42 published pathways from Foothill College — 24 shown.

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