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  • ANTH 332: Perishables Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course provides the rationale and protocols for the analysis, documentation, and interpretation of twined, coiled, and plated basketry, along with cordage by-products. The delineation and recordation procedures of technological attributes, as well as the identification of plant and other organic raw materials used in the construction of perishable materials will also be emphasized. Corequisite: Anth 335. 3 credits.
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  • ANTH 333: Human Skeletal Biology II

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course serves as a continuation of Human Skeletal Biology I in which methods in the identification of osteological remains, determination of chronological age, sex, ancestry and stature are discussed in detail. Skeletal pathology, trauma and non-metric/metric data will be also included. Prerequisite: Anth 326, Anth 327. Corequisite: Anth 334. 3 credits.
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  • ANTH 334: Human Skeletal Biology II Lab

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    Corequisite: Anth 333. 1 credit.
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  • ANTH 335: Perishables Analysis Lab

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    The perishables analysis laboratory will be devoted to the documentation of twined, coiled, and plated basketry, as well as cordage and cordage byproducts. It will involve not only the delineation and recordation of technological attributes, but also the identification of plant and, in some cases, other organic raw materials used in the construction of these items. Students will engage with the material through a number of individual and group activities and projects. Corequisite: Anth 332. 1 credit.
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  • ANTH 336: History of Anthropological Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course is designed to address, through an examination of the history of anthropology, the theoretical developments, schools of thought, and ideas accounting for the nature of culture and cultural development. The specific contributions of the principal figures representative of each of the major schools of thought will also be identified and examined. While theories of culture are the focus and form the core of this course, the history and theoretical developments of archaeology will be simultaneously considered. Prerequisite: Anth 130. 3 credits.
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  • ANTH 338: Introduction to Archaeological Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course is designed to introduce students to the development of ideas about why we do archaeology, the nature of our encounter with the material record of the past, how we make the past meaningful in the present, and the specific character of archaeology as a human science. This historical review considers both the contributions of specific scholars/schools of thought, and the relationship of their ideas to wider cultural trends which have shaped the social sciences and humanities. Prerequisite: Anth 130. 3 credits.
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  • Anth 340: Principles of Evolution

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    Th is course will include discussions of most aspects of the study of evolution including the history of evolutionary thought, Darwin’s contributions, Natural Selection, and micro- and macro-evolutionary principles. Prerequisite: Anth 120. 3 credits.
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  • ANTH 342: Funerary Archaeology

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course will have several aims. The first is to expose students to how archaeologists and anthropologists have conceptualized death and what effect this has had on the contribution of funerary material/ activities to particular studies of social and economic development and change through the years. The second aim is to introduce students to the diversity of funerary practices in both the past and in the present, and more specifically, to explore the role of funerary rituals within the economic and social reproduction of particular communities. The third aim is to address how death has become politicized in the ongoing conflict between indigenous peoples and scientists over the ownership and control of human remains and their past. Prerequisite: Anth 130. 3 credits.
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  • ANTH 344: The Anthropology of Ritual

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    This course is intended to introduce students first to the variety of anthropological theories which have attempted to make ritual practice intelligible to observers, and second, to the kinds of rituals in which humans participate during the course of their lives. Particular attention will be paid to how material culture and space are manipulated within ritual practice, in an ongoing discussion of how archaeologists explore rituals in the past. Prerequisite: Anth 130, Anth 112. 3 credits.
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  • Anth 346: Anthropology of Gender

    3.00 Credits
    Mercyhurst University

    Th is course has the main objective of introducing students to gender issues in anthropology and archaeology via lectures, practical exercises and a term project. Topics to be covered include gender bias in popular and academic archaeological/ anthropological discourse, gender and scientific practice, gender and archaeological theory, and “engendering” the past. Anumber of case studies will be considered. Prerequisite: Anth 130, Anth 112. 3 credits.
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