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  • ANT 307: Archaeology of the Turkana Basin

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    Sites in the Turkana Basin show changes in human technology and social organization from earliest times to today. Class trips to Early Stone Age sites show innovations in lithic technology during the first stages of stone tool production. Practice surveys and excavations focus on the past 10,000 years, when local hunter-gatherers began using pottery and bone harpoons, and eating aquatic resources. Additional site tours highlight 1) early herding in eastern Africa and the construction of stone pillar sites, possibly for ceremonial use, and 2) integration of fishing, herding, farming, and use of iron tools during the past 2000 years. Linking the human evolution finds with the present, class lectures, lab exercises, and field excursions show students how archaeologists document technological innovation, adoption, and transformation through material cultural evidence. Students learn diverse methods of survey and excavation appropriate for different sites and contexts.
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  • ANT 310: Ethnography

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    A particular cultural area of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, Mexico and Guatemala, Asia, or the Middle East, is considered in terms of its history and ecology, with a comparative analysis of the cultural systems and social arrangements of representative ethnic groups. The aim of the course is to provide an overview of cultural diversity and uniformity in an area outside of Europe. May be repeated as the topic changes.
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  • ANT 311: Immersion in Another Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    A specific world area, such as the highlands of New Guinea or the Nilotic Southern Sudan, or a particularly well-documented people such as the Trobriand Islanders, are considered in detail. Lectures, texts, and films consider ecology, history, social change, language, cultural systems, and social arrangements toward providing students with a comprehensive understanding of another cultural system. May be repeated as the topic changes.
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  • ANT 350: Medical Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    An introduction to the cross-cultural study of health, illness, and curing. Topics covered include the human body as cultural construct, theories of illness causation, alternative medical systems, epidemiology, ethnopharmacology, cross-cultural psychiatry, sex and reproduction, nutrition, and the implications of culture for pain perception, stress, and health risk management.
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  • ANT 351: Comparative Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    A survey of religious behavior in cross-cultural perspective. The approach is broadly comparative and eminently anthropological, involving theories of origin and evolution of religious systems, as well as the functioning of religious behavior and institutions within the total culture. Case study material is drawn primarily from preliterate societies, but some reference is made to the large organized religious systems of complex stratified societies.
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  • ANT 353: Archaeological Analysis and Interpretation

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    Laboratory analysis of recently excavated materials from Long Island archaeological sites. Types of prehistoric material analyzed include lithic and ceramic artifacts and the remains of shellfish and vertebrates.
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  • ANT 354: Family, Kinship, and Marriage

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    Concepts of family, kinship, marriage, incest, exogamy: their source in nature and culture and their social implications. Major theories are discussed historically, demographically, and ecologically. Brief case studies are presented to illustrate theories of social anthropology.
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  • ANT 355: Ancient African Civilizations

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    The archaeology of Africa's later prehistoric and historic periods offers exciting contributions to global debates on the origins of agriculture and civilization. Covering the last 20,000 years, this course begins by examining the economic underpinnings of Africa's complex societies: intensive hunting and gathering, animal domestication, and early farming. Detailed case studies of six ancient civilizations (Egypt, Kerma, Aksum, Jenne, Swahili, and Great Zimbabwe) then demonstrate distinct processes of prehistoric social change in different parts of Africa. The course concludes by discussing African archaeological heritage conservation, research, and public education. This course is offered as both AFS 355 and ANT 355.
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  • ANT 357: The Agricultural Revolution

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    The origins and consequences of agrarian (food-producing) adaptations. Examination of the social, technological, and ecological changes that ocurred when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism around 8000 years ago. Current theories about the origins and consequences of agro-pastoralism are evaluated in light of recent evidence from both Old and New Worlds.
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  • ANT 358: Ways to Civilization

    3.00 Credits
    Stony Brook University

    A comparative study of processes of cultural evolution from simple agricultural societies to the achievement of civilization in different parts of the world. Emphasis is on current theories of state formation and on how these theories are supported by cultural evidence, especially from the six 'pristine' states of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, Meso-america, and Peru.
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