printer friendly pageARCHLGY 1: Introduction to Prehistoric Archeology (ANTHRO 3)
Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Rick, J. (PI)
ARCHLGY 12: Peopling of the Globe: Changing Patterns of Land Use and Consumption Over the Last 50,000 Years (ANTHRO 18, EARTHSYS 21, HUMBIO 182)
Fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that modern humans began to disperse out of Africa about 50,000 years ago. Subsequently, humans have colonized every major landmass on earth. This class introduces students to the data and issues regarding human dispersal, migration and colonization of continents and islands around the world. We explore problems related to the timing and cause of colonizing events, and investigate questions about changing patterns of land use, demography and consumption. Students are introduced to critical relationships between prehistoric population changes and our contemporary environmental crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Bird, D. (PI)
ARCHLGY 102: Archaeological Methods (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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
ARCHLGY 102B: Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology (ANTHRO 106, ANTHRO 206A)
The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The domestication of indigenous plants which provided the economic foundation for monumental cities, ceramics, and textiles. Cultural evolution, and why and how major transformations occurred.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Rick, J. (PI)
ARCHLGY 103: History of Archaeological Thought (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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Meskell, L. (PI)
ARCHLGY 106A: Museums and Collections (ARCHLGY 306A)
Practical, theoretical, and ethical issues which face museums and collections. Practical collections-based work, museum visits, and display research. The roles of the museum in contemporary society. Students develop their own exhibition and engage with the issues surrounding the preservation of material culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Newble, L. (PI)
ARCHLGY 107A: Archaeology as a Profession (ANTHRO 101A)
Academic, contract, government, field, laboratory, museum, and heritage aspects of the profession.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Voss, B. (PI)
ARCHLGY 111: Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (CHINGEN 141, CHINGEN 241)
Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnings of agriculture, development of social stratification, and emergence of states and urbanism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
ARCHLGY 117: Ceramics: Art and Science (CLASSART 114)
From clay to culture. Design, technology, manufacture, and consumption of ceramics. Guest lecturers, site visits, and hands-on studio work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Shanks, M. (PI)
ARCHLGY 120: Social Zooarchaeology ¿ Animals within Prehistoric Social Worlds (ANTHRO 120A, ANTHRO 220A, ARCHLGY 220)
The elevated status of animals in prehistory derived from their position as sentient beings sharing many of the ontological qualities of people "comparable life-cycles and behavioral traits in some cases, affection, the display of dominance hierarchies, and differing degrees of sociality" while at the same time retaining clear biological and behavioral differences. The course will consider aspects of the social and ontological relations between people and animals in prehistory, particularly cosmologies and folk classifications, and the place of animals in social relations and identity formation. It is aimed to understand how the presence, qualities, materialities, and networks of animal life shaped human socialities as much as human agency created engagement with the `animal estate'. Furthermore, it intends to define how to include animals as subjects in archaeological and anthropological studies taking non-human agency as a starting point. Focusing on case studies drawn from Europe, Asia and the Americas, the course is aimed to highlight varied and multifaceted intersection between humans and animals in the past.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Marciniak, A. (PI)
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