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4.00 Credits
Treats the anthropology museum as a focus for historical and cultural study. By considering an early Peabody Museum collection of interpretive dioramas, students will explore the history of dioramas and the practice of modeling across fields, the various ways in which indigenous people have been represented and interpreted in museum display and throughout the history of anthropology. Readings and discussions will include historical context and issues of representation and display, indigenous perspectives on museum representation, and ethics of museum stewardship. Students will contribute to the curation of a new Peabody Museum exhibition of these historical dioramas from a contemporary anthropological perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Focus on physical science and engineering methods and techniques used by archaeologists in the reconstruction of time, space, and human paleoecology, and analysis of archaeological materials. Topics include 14C dating, ice core and palynological analysis, stable isotope chemistry of paleodietary foodwebs, soil micromorphology and site formation, Pb isotope sourcing of metal artifacts, and microstructural and mechanical analyses of cementitious materials used in ancient monumental buildings.
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4.00 Credits
The class will use six important archaeological sites as case studies by which to understand prehistory in the Ancient Americas and to learn of changing approaches to studying the past. From three major culture regions, two sites important for specialists and a wider audience will be examined in depth. They are North America: Cahokia and Chaco Canyon; Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan and Copan; and Central Andes: Moche Huacas and Cuzco-Machu Picchu.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive introduction to the grammar, vocabulary and historical significance of Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire, and precursor to numerous varieties of the language still spoken in Modern Mexico. We will also study Aztec hieroglyphic writing and the extensive philological sources for Nahuatl, some dating back to the early 15th century.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the method and theory of archaeological decipherment. Major decipherments are studied in-depth (Egyptian hieroglyphs, the cuneiform scripts, Linear B, Maya and Aztec glyphs), as are various undeciphered scripts (Linear A, Isthmian and Rongorongo) and a number of deciphered systems encoding extinct languages (Etruscan, Meroitic and Sumerian). Other topics include the origins, development, and sociopolitical uses of writing in the ancient world.
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4.00 Credits
Ethnic identity and conflict are among the most powerful processes and relations shaping the world we live in today. Questions addressed include: What can we understand about ethnic identity and relations in the prehistoric world on the basis of the archaeological record? For example, how might differences in material culture represent and reflect markers of ethnic identity? The Peabody Museum collections will provide materials for study and analysis.
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4.00 Credits
Forensic archaeology has gained recognition as an important component of forensic investigations, both on local and global scales. This course examines the role of archaeology (and its associated analytical techniques) in the context of both ancient and modern forensic investigations, such as mass graves, crimes, and fakes and forgeries. The course analyses the process of investigation from identification and survey, to recovery, analysis, and reporting of evidence, and ethical responsibilities.
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4.00 Credits
Course examines evidence of violence and conflict from prehistory through to present-day. Course analyses a range of material (e.g. osteological, artifactual, and iconographic data) in order to understand role of violence and conflict in social and political change.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the Pyramids, Sphinx, and tombs at Giza (ca. 2500 BC), in the context of ancient Egyptian history, art, and archaeology. The HU-MFA Expedition excavated Giza, resulting in today's Giza Archives Project. Seminar consists of introductory lectures, followed by student presentations. Topics range from challenges of archaeological information processing to issues of ownership and repatriation. Students may also contribute to the Giza Archives Project, at Harvard and/or the MFA.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a critical introduction to the premises, vocabulary, and methods of the anthropological dialogue with people of other cultures. Lectures and discussions revolve around several themes central to the discipline, such as "cultural relativism," "social structure," "interpretation," "gender," "the invention of tradition," and "reflexivity." At the same time, we will seek some fair-minded insights into the collective lives of people who work, play, fight, speak, eat and pray in ways different from our own. In the end, we will see ourselves more clearly and fairly as well.
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