Fall 2005 Interdisciplinary overview of Europe and Mediterranean World in 4th-6th centuries A.D. based on archaeological record and material culture (including art), history, and literature. Topics include: rise of Christianity; urban change; trade; villas; rural life; interactions with "barbarians." Spring 2006 Topic: Survey and Landscape Archaeology in the Mediterranean This semester will trace the development of survey and landscape archaeology in the Mediterranean basin and their impact on understandings of the social, political, economic, and religios environments of Mediterranean cultures. With specific focus on case studies from Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the Levant, weekly presentations will include a sample of methodological and interpretive approaches covering such topics and survey methodology and cross-comparability, trends in settlement pattern studies and site-catchment analysis, environmental and landscape reconstruction, GIS, models of survey data interpretations, ancient perceptions of landscape, and landscape evolution and temporality.