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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 002 or ANTH 003 or relevant preparation in psychology or biology or consent of instructor. An examination of the evolution of the biological and social capacities that have made culture the central attribute of the human species. Topics include the evolution of human diet, tool-making, the family and kinship, and language.
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Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the global production, transmission, and consumption of mass media in diverse national and transnational contexts. Includes debates over the power of media; construction of knowledge of others; affective responses to images of violence; practices of self-representation; and the ways in which consumers accept, reject and negotiate media messages.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to "Third World" women's politics. Covers women's politifrom a global perspective. Although international in breadth, emphasis is placed on South Asia, sub- Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. Cross-listed with WMST 109.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A cross-cultural perspective on prehistoric agriculture as resource management, economic system, and political tool. Archaeological methods and theory of reconstructing agricultural systems and their role in prehistoric societies.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Consideration of the archaeological, biological, linguistic, and dating evidence documenting the nature and timing of the earliest occupation of the Western Hemisphere by human populations.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 003 or ANTH 005 or consent of instructor. An archaeological perspective on spatial behavior from architectural design to regional economic systems. Provides an introduction to a broad range of issues and analytical perspectives with an emphasis on theoretical approaches and case studies.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H; ANTH 003 or ANTH 005; or consent of instructor. Explores archaeological perspectives on households and communities. Discusses their composition, function, and meaning. Illustrates with specific cases from diverse cultural contexts. Topics include everyday life in ancient households and communities, social and economic reproduction, and long-term stability and change.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor and either ANTH 003 or ANTH 005. Introduction to the technology of core-and-flake stone tools. Principles of fracture, quarrying, reduction, heat treatment, core technology, and production and use of flaked stone tools in core-and-flake lithic assemblages. Assemblage formation processes and their interpretation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 114A and consent of instructor. The technology of core-andblade industries, ground-stone industries, and millstone industries. Percussion- and pressure-blade reduction sequences and strategies, emphasizing quarrying, initial reduction, core production, blade production, and production and use of tools from blades. Technology and production of ground-stone tools, and the quarrying of raw material and production of millstones. Assemblage formation processes and their interpretation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 114A, ANTH 114B; or consent of instructor. Characterization, analysis, and interpretation of stone tool assemblages, with emphasis on debitage.
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