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Professor Elias teaches two undergraduate courses in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway: GG2041 Environmental Change (with John Lowe), and GG3044 People and the Ice Age. He also teaches several sections in the Master’s programme, including elements of Paleoclimatology, and Paleoentomology.

GG2041 Environmental Change

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GG3044 People and the Ice Age

This is third-year course that examines human adaptation to changing environments during and immediately after the last ice age. The course integrates study of the physical environment (ice age climate; glaciation, sea ice), ice age flora and fauna, and human adaptations, based on the fossil record and archaeology.

The main themes are: overview of Pleistocene environments; Late Pleistocene environments of Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia; human adaptations to Late Pleistocene environments in these regions; extinction of megafaunal mammals; Pleistocene art from caves and burials; the demise of Neanderthals; postglacial environments and human adaptations in Europe, Asia, and the New World.

GG5291 MSc Quaternary Programme Core Course in Paleoclimatology