Courses

• CAS AN 593: Seminar: Topics in Cultural Anthropology
  Selected issues and debates in current anthropology. Topic for Fall 2009: TBA.
• CAS AN 594: Seminar: Topics in Cultural Anthropology
  Selected issues and debates in current anthropology. Three topics are offered during the Spring 2008 semester. Students may take one, two or three for credit. Section A1: Humans Among Animals. Section B1: Social Movements. Section C1: Culture and Emotions. Considers how anthropology has contributed to the understanding of emotions in humans and where its contributions fit in an interdisciplinary field increasingly dominated by neuroscience.
• CAS AN 595: Methods in Biological Anthropology
  An exploration of field and laboratory methods used in biological anthropology, with students participating in hands-on exercises. Topics include health assessment, body composition, diet, energetics, morphological adaptations, reproductive status, habitat composition, spatial movements, and conservation. Professional skills are also developed.
• CAS AN 596: Anthropology and History
  Examines the use of ethnographic materials and models of alternative social or economic organization to interpret historical materials as well as the use of history to provide dynamic models of change in anthropological analysis.
• CAS AN 597: Seminar: Special Topics in Biological Anthropology
  Special issues and debates in current biological anthropology. Topic for Fall 2009: TBA.
• CAS AN 598: Seminar: Special Issues in Biological Anthropology
  Special issues and debates in current biological anthropology. Topic for Spring 2011: TBA.
• CAS AR 100: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
  Illustrated lectures focus on the important discoveries of the discipline of archaeology. Course covers the whole of human prehistory and history around the world. Archaeological methods are described, along with the great ancient sites: Olduvai, Lascaux, Stonehenge, Egyptian pyramids, Machu Picchu, etc.
• CAS AR 101: Introduction to Archaeology
  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.
• CAS AR 201: Introduction to Underwater Archaeology
  Historical survey of underwater archaeology and major discoveries in both the Old and New Worlds, with illustrations of methods for shallow and deep water excavations. Topics include ships, ports, navigation, trading routes, and their significance for maritime history.
• CAS AR 202: Archaeological Mysteries: Pseudoscience and Fallacy in the Human Past
  Investigation through case studies of pseudoscientific claims about the past. Purported solutions to archaeological mysteries are subjected to the test of evidence using the scientific method. Topics include Atlantis, ancient extraterrestrials, Pyramids, Stonehenge, crop marks, and Noah's Ark.
• CAS AR 205: Origins of Civilization
  The comparison of origins and institutions of civilizations in the Old and New Worlds, including the first state-organized societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and Peru.
• CAS AR 206: Ancient Technology
  Traces the related evolution of technology and culture over the first million years of human existence. Case studies focus on the interaction between early technology and social structure, values, and institutions. Lectures and hands-on experience with ceramics, stone, and metallurgy.
• CAS AR 208: Lost Languages and Decipherments
  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.
• CAS AR 209: The Near Eastern Bronze Age
  Examines the wealth and power of the ancient Near East and Egypt during the middle and late Bronze Age. Topics include the establishment of power, long distance exchange and interaction, ethnicity, architecture, and environmental and ecological factors affecting the civilizations.
• CAS AR 210: Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
  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.
• CAS AR 215: The Contested Past
  Examination of the diverse and often conflicting values associated with archaeological objects, ancient monuments, and cultural sites. Case studies (including the Elgin Marbles) highlight contemporary controversies over ownership, appropriation, use, and abuse of the material remains of the past.
• CAS AR 221: Archaeology of the Islamic World
  An overview of the Islamic world from the seventh to the eighteenth century CE. Focus on ancient cities: religious and secular buildings such as gardens, palaces, forts, mausoleums, and mosques; and study of ceramics, calligraphy, metal and glassware, trade routes, and Islamic crafts.
• CAS AR 222: Art and Architecture of Ancient America
  Introduction to the cities, monuments, and major art styles of the Aztec, the Maya, the Inca, and their predecessors in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the sixteenth century.
• CAS AR 230: Archaeology of Classical Civilizations
  An introduction to classical antiquity through the material remains of the period ca. 1500 B.C. to A.D. 400. Chronological survey of the magnificent (palaces, temples, and major arts) and the mundane (pots, coins, tools, and weapons) as evidenced in the archaeological record. Special emphasis on daily life and on relations between Greco-Roman and other cultures.
• CAS AR 232: Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
  The technology, economy, social life, political organization, religions, art, and architecture of Egypt from predynastic times through the Hellenistic period, based on archaeological and historical sources. Emphasis on the period of the pharaohs (ca. 3200-323 B.C.)

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