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5.00 Credits
Fitzhugh, Grayson, Lape, Stein Learn how archaeologists detect human occupation on the landscape by surveying, excavating, and crating evidence of the past. Students learn from start to finish the process of archaeological field investigation. The location for this course may change from year to year. Recommended: ARCHY 205. Offered: A.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Laboratory procedures geared to one specific archaeological research project. Archaeological collection, its processing and curation, how archaeological materials are processed, and how significance is determined. No more than 5 credits may be used toward an anthropology major.
Prerequisite:
either ARCHY 105 or ARCHY 205
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5.00 Credits
Old World prehistory from beginnings of human culture to rise of civilizations. First tools made by humans, spread of humans out of Africa, origins of agriculture, rise of state society. Africa, Near East, Egypt, China, India, Europe.
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5.00 Credits
History of earliest Americans, beginning with crossing of land bridge between Asia and North America and eventual spread over the Americas. Highlights prehistory and best examples of western hemisphere’s civilizations. Mexico, Yucatan, Peru, southwestern and eastern United States, Washington.
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5.00 Credits
Origins, development, and variation of Pacific Northwest cultures, focusing particularly on Washington. Adaptations to maritime and interior environments. Artifacts from a variety of archaeological sites. Technological, functional, and historical significance of Northwest artifacts. .
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5.00 Credits
History of the human occupation of the South Pacific Islands, especially Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. Focus on current debates about human migrations, long distance maritime trade, political structures, culture contact, and colonialism. Emphasis on the analysis of the primary archaeological and documentary data.
Prerequisite:
ARCHY 205
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5.00 Credits
Analyzing archaeological data by measuring and describing such artifacts as stone tools and ceramics. Analysis of such environmental data as bones, plant remains, and sediments.
Prerequisite:
ARCHY 205
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5.00 Credits
Close Early part of the prehistoric archaeological record in Africa and Eurasia, from >2,000,000 years ago until the spread of modern human beings; development of stone and bone technologies; ways of making a living; cultural adaptations; intellectual and social development. Offered: Sp.
Prerequisite:
ARCHY 205
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5.00 Credits
Examines case studies in prehistoric archaeological record for intersections of socially constructed differences including age, gender, and class. Contrasts past perceptions of difference with projection of modern differences backward to validate the present.
Prerequisite:
ARCHY 205; either ARCHY 105, ARCHY 303, or ARCHY 401
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5.00 Credits
Llobera Study of landscapes in archaeology. Methods for landscape research: historic maps, diaries, aerial photographs, geophysical and satellite imagery, etc. Archaeological landscape surveys: principles and limitations. Review of various theoretical approaches. Examination o key case studies, Issues on landscape heritage and indigenous landscapes.
Prerequisite:
ARCH 205
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