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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 91A.) Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions. 5 units, Spr (Hodder, I)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 90A.) Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches. 5 units, Win (Aldrich, C)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 303C. Graduate students register for 303C.) Why should archaeologists be concerned with new media The emergence of new media in the popular and technical realms; why archaeology has begun to use new media and how it can benefit; how representing and distributing archaeological information is being changed, and epistemological and ethical implications. Handson application of new media to an archaeological project using blogs, wikis, and 3-D immersive environments. 3-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 304C.) Early China from the perspective of material remains unearthed from archaeological sites; the development of Chinese culture from early hominid occupation nearly 2 million years ago through the development of agriculture in the Neolithic period and complex society in the Bronze Age to the political unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. Continuity of Chinese culture from past to present, history of Chinese archaeology, relationships between archaeology and politics, and food in early China. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 305A.) The historical, commercial, and intellectual contexts of the collection and misappropriation of cultural artifacts from the 18th century to the present; implications and what they reveal about human engagement with the material past. Emphasis is on contemporary legal and ethical issues of trade and repatriation. 3-5 units, Spr (Brodie, N)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 306A.) Global organization of museums; their history and roles in society. Social issues involved in the management of collections, and their public role. The role of the curator in contemporary society. 3-5 units, Spr (Newble, L)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 101A.) Academic, contract, government, field, laboratory, museum, and heritage aspects of the profession. 5 units, Aut (Contreras, D)
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5.00 Credits
Student participation in on-campus excavation at the site of the old gymnasium. Excavation skills, laboratory processing, and primary recording. 5 units, Spr (Staff)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 309.) The application of human genetic studies to the interpretation of archaeological data. Focus is on the transition to the Neolithic; attention to more recent case studies pertinent to historic anthropology. Topics include: the social construction of race and ethnicity; colonialist abuses of genetic theories and data; the Neolithic transition to agropastoralism in the Near East, Europe, and N.E. Africa; Greek and Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean; the Bantu expansion; the Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora; expansion of agriculture in E. Asia, and the peopling of Oceania and the Americas. 4-5 units, Aut (King, R)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 116A, ANTHRO 216A, ARCHLGY 310.) How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods. 4-5 units, Aut (Aldrich, C)
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