ANTH 3: Introduction to Archaeology
This course provides an overview of archaeological ways of learning about the human past beyond the scope of written history. It reviews the historical development of archaeology, fundamental methods and theories, and archaeology’s contribution to understanding human origins, the emergence of farming, and the origins of complex societies.
ANTH 175: African Archaeology
This course introduces archaeological contributions to our understanding of the African past. Topics covered include the origins of hunter gatherer societies, the advent of farming and agriculture, the rise of cities and African kingdoms, and responses to contact with the Middle East and Europe. Particular attention paid to understanding the diversity of African cultures and societies over time and space.
ANTH 179/HIST 158C: Slavery in the Atlantic World
This course, co-tuaght with Professor Greg O’Malley, explores the cultures and traditions of African diaspora resulting from the transatlantic slave trade, drawing on methodologies from two academic disciplines–history and archaeology. The course examines key questions about the slave system, using an array of source materials, both written documents and artifacts, culminating in a final group project that studies one plantation in the Americas.
ANTH 270B: Current Directions in the Archaeology of Colonial Encounters
This Graduate Core course provides an in-depth understanding of current trends in archaeological thought and practice, in reference to the archaeology of colonial encounters. The course enables students to place issues of archaeological interpretation into broader historical and theoretical frameworks. As partner course with ANTH 270A, this course focuses on several broad themes that have become a major focal point in recent years, including landscape archaeology, household archaeology, communities of practice, inequality and identity, ethics and descendant communities, power and society, and everyday life.
ANTH 171: Materials and Methods in Historical Archaeology
In this intensive, hands-on course, students learn the step-by-step processes involved in conducting laboratory research on historic artifacts. Students study the ins and outs of analyzing, cataloging, and dating historic artifacts, as well as analytical methods for identifying patterns over time and space on historic sites.
ANTH 178: Historical Archaeology a Global Perpsective
This course introduces the archaeology of European colonialism and the early-modern world. Topics include historical archaeological methods, the nature of European colonial expansion in New and Old Worlds, culture contact and change, and power and resistance in colonial societies
ANTH 194Y: Archaeology of Space and Landscape
Examines contemporary archaeological perspectives on space and landscape. Focuses on how archaeology can contribute to an appreciation of the economic, cultural, and political factors that shape human perception, use, and construction of the physical world.
ANTH 270A: History of Archaeological Theory
This Graduate Core course provides an historical overview of archaeology, concentrating on archaeological practice in the English-speaking world from the late 19th through the early 21st Centuries. Emphasis is on development of archaeological theory in its social context; its relation to evolutionary and anthropological theory; and themes ongoing over time.
ANTH 281: Landscape Archaeology
”Landscape” has emerged as a unifying concept for the interpretation of such archaeological features at multiple scales of analysis. This grad course answers these and other questions by examining how ”landscapes” have been tackled archaeologically from multiple perspectives (settlement archaeology, ”off-site” archaeology, and approaches building on ideas about culture, ideology and power)
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