Archaeology Spring 2010 Courses

Professor Roosevelt

Illustrated lectures focus on the important discoveries of the discipline
of archaeology. Course covers the whole of human prehistory around
the world. Archaeological methods are described, along with the great
ancient sites: Olduvai, Lascaux, Stonehenge, Egyptian pyramids, Machu
Picchu, etc. Course fulfills humanities distribution requirement.

(Course fulfills humanities distribution requirement.)

Professor Vrba

Illustrated lectures focus on the important discoveries of the discipline of archaeology. Course covers the whole of human prehistory around the world.
Archaeological methods are described, along with the great ancient sites:
Olduvai, Lascaux, Stonehenge, Egyptian pyramids, Machu Picchu, etc. Course
fulfills humanities distribution requirement.

(Course fulfills humanities distribution requirement.)

Professor Borojevic

Theory, methods and aims of prehistoric and historical archaeology
in the Old and New Worlds. Excavation and recovery of archaeological
data; dating techniques; interpretation of finds; relation of archaeology
to history and other disciplines. Examination of several Old and New
World cultures. Course fulfills social sciences distribution requirement.

(Course fulfills social science distribution requirement.)

Professor Danti

An overview of the archaeology of writing focusing on modern decipherments of ancient texts. Related topics include characteristics of the world’s major language families, the nature of linguistic change, and the origin and history of the alphabet.

(Course fulfills department topical requirements.)

TR 3:30-5:00

Professor Runnels

Traces the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations from their Stone Age roots to the end of the Bronze Age. Subjects include art, architecture, economic, social, political, and religious characteristics, and theoretical explanations of cultural change.

(Course fulfills department area requirement.)

TR 12:30-2:00

Professor Mughal

MWF 10:00-11:00

Professor Vrba

Follows the development of urban centers in the Greco-Roman world from the Late Bronze Age through the Roman period. Topics include state formation, urban architecture and infrastructure, public and private buildings and monuments, and social dynamics of urban culture. Course cross listed with AH332.

Professor Beaudry

A practical introduction to the use of archival and oral sources in text-aided archaeology; surveys the use of oral and documentary sources by archaeologists, giving attention to the type and scope of documents-defined in the broadest sense-available. Critical analysis of documents as a step in constructing anthropological history, historical ethnography, and the “new culture history” as well as the interaction of history, anthropology and material culture studies in historical archaeology. Course meets with AR775.

(Course fulfills department topical requirement.)

CAS AR381 B1 LAB
M 3:00-5:00

Professor Borojevic

Introduces the method and theory of the study of the uses of plants by humans derived from evidence presented in the archaeological record, the relationship between humans and their environment, and the relationship between the environment, and the Archaeological record. Laboratory sessions concentrate on identification, and a Project using Archaeological samples. Course meets with AR802.

(Course fulfills department technical requirement.)

Professor Murowchick

Examines the prehistoric and historic cultures of Southeast Asia, including the first arrival of humans, regional neolithic and Bronze Age communities, early states, maritime trading networks, as well as political motivations in archaeology and the illicit Asian antiquities trade. Meets with AR790.

Guatemala

Professor Saturno

R 2:00-5:00

Professor Estrada-Belli

Prereq: Two archaeology courses or consent of instructor.
Lecture/laboratory course introducing students to applications of remote sensing in archaeology. A variety of geophysical survey methods as well as multispectral image analysis are taught. Topics include the use of remotely sensed data for regional analysis, the discovery and mapping of buried archaeological features, and computer analysis of multispectral data.

(Course fulfills department technical requirement.)

Professor Goldberg

Prereq: (CASAR102 & CASAR509) OR ( (CASES202 OR CASES220 OR CASES222) & (CASES101 OR CASES105) two semesters of geology, or consent of instructor.
The micromorphological examination and interpretation of soils, sediments, and archaeological and anthropogenic materials features (e.g., ceramics, bricks, hearths), with focus on the processes of landscape evolution and the mechanisms of archaeological site formation.

(Course fulfills department technical requirement.

Topics vary. Analysis of major events and processes of the Mesoamerican area. Topics include the arrival of man; development of regional patterns; origin of food production; rise of towns, temples, and urbanism; the origin of state; and the development of empires.
(Course fulfills department area requirement.)

Guatemala

Professor Saturno

Supervised original research in excavation, survey, or field laboratory situation, as art of field study program.
(Course fulfills department technical requirement)

Prereq: GRS AR701. Explore aspects of contemporary theory in archaeology, including post-modern critiques of contemporary practice, new approaches to archaeology of ritual, personhood, identity, and the body; indigenous and public archaeology; politics and archaeology.

W 1:00-4:00

Prof. Danti

Core concepts of archaeological research on the formation, cultural development, and decay of complex societies as well as their introduction into other cultures. Coverage emphasizes research design rather than simply survey.

R 11:00-2:00
Professor Goldberg

This seminar deals with a variety of topics concerned with the earth and archaeological sciences. Such themes are related to quaternary environments; methods of studying archaeological sediments and materials; scientific methods in the study of archaeological sites.

F 1:00-4:00

Prof. Roosevelt

Selected problems or topics in the prehistoric archaeology of the New World.

Comprehensive survey of use of oral and written documentary history by archaeologists. Specific topics, sources, techniques of recording and analysis. Special attention to archaeological applications of African and American oral history projects; case studies involving documentation in New World historical archaeology. Course meets with AR375.

TR 9:30-11:00
Professor Murowchick

Examines the prehistoric and historic cultures of Southeast Asia, including the first arrival of humans, regional neolithic and Bronze Age communities, early states, maritime trading networks, as well as political motivations in archaeology and the illicit Asian antiquities trade. Meets with AR390.