Archaeology

• GRS AR 699: Teaching College Archaeology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in archaeology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AR 701: The Intellectual History of Archaeology
  The historical development of archaeological methods and theory from the Renaissance to the present day, including comparison of major developments in Western Europe and the Americas with developments in other regions. Basic concepts in archaeological record and society.
• GRS AR 702: Contemporary Theory in Archaeology
  Explores 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; and politics and archaeology.
• GRS AR 703: Seminar: Materials in Ancient Society
  Topic to be announced. Offered through the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
• GRS AR 704: Seminar: Materials in Ancient Society
  Topic to be announced. Offered through the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
• GRS AR 705: Pre-urban Development
  Cultural development from the origins of humankind through the establishment of food production, with emphasis on models for reconstructing successive changes in adaptation among early populations.
• GRS AR 706: Archaeology of Complex Societies
  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 simple survey.
• GRS AR 708: Processes in the formation of Archaeological Sites.
  Considers in detail geological, biological and anthropogenic depositional and post-depositional processes that result in formation of archaeological sites. Initial focus on basic principles/processes, then their application to site-evaluation in New and Old World. Field trips in area.
• GRS AR 709: Research Methods in Geoarchaeology
  Topics concerned with the earth and archaeological sciences. Such themes are related to quaternary environments; methods of studying archaeological sediments and materials; and scientific methods in the study of archaeological sites.
• GRS AR 712: Sem Ow Prehist
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AR 722: Ancient Aztec and Inca Civilizations
  The conquests, trade, society, history, religion, art, and architecture of the Aztec and Inca Empires in Mexico and Peru, as revealed archaeologically and in the accounts of their Spanish conquerors.
• GRS AR 730: Seminar: Old World Historical Archaeology
  Topics vary.
• GRS AR 737: The Wine Dark Sea: Material Culture and Identity in the World of Homer
  This course examines the interconnected cultures of the eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1200 BCE) through the Achaemenid period (c. 5-4th C. BCE), with a focus on the material correlates of identity.
• GRS AR 738: Mare Nostrum: Material Culture and Identity after Alexander
  This course examines the interconnected cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean from the era of Alexander the Great (4th century BCE) through the Roman emperors period (c. 2nd-3rd centuries CE), with a focus on the material correlates of the identity.
• GRS AR 741: Seminar: Archaeology of Mesopotamia
  Studies this core area of the ancient Near East, from the introduction of agriculture to the Hellenistic era. Examines the genesis of the first urban society and its transformation under the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians.
• GRS AR 742: Archaeology in the Holy Land
  In Israel, archaeology is part of current events. The study of remains from the Israelite to the Moslem conquests (c. 1200 BCE -- 640 CE) to learn how material evidence created and still plays a role in a larger historical drama.
• GRS AR 743: Anatolian Archaeology
  An historically oriented survey of the material remains of the ancient cultures of Turkey and northwest Iran from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Emphasis is on the Hittite Empire and civilizations that succeeded it in the first millennium.
• GRS AR 746: Seminar: The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
  Examines the prehistoric and early historical origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, major institutions of the culture, and culture changes through time. Topics studied include changing socio-political organization, demography and the economic system, and beliefs/religion.
• GRS AR 747: Egypt and Northeast Africa: Early States in Egypt, Nubia, and Eritrea/Ethiopia
  Focuses on early states in northeast Africa, in Egypt, Nubia, and Eritrea/Ethiopia. Comparative analyses include socioeconomic institutions, kingship, burial practices, and religions of these early states, concentrating on archaeological as well as textual evidence.
• GRS AR 751: Seminar: Mesoamerican Archaeology
  Advanced seminar covering major events and processes of the Mesoamerican culture region. Topics vary by semester, but may include issues such as early villages, urbanization, state formation, households, religion, economy and exchange, and the Spanish conquest and early colonialism. Topic for Spring 2013: Urbanization and Religion in Highland Mexico.

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