PRINCIPLES OF ARCHAEOLOGY

ANTHRO 311

Critical study of the field of Archaeological Science using laboratory based approaches in archaeometry, archaeological chemistry, and materials analyses.

ANTHRO 391

An introduction to the principles and techniques in the identification and interpretation of animal bones. Includes analysis of an archaeological bone assemblage.

ANTHRO 424

An introduction to historical approaches in anthropology: topics covered include early theories, evolutionism, ethnohistory, culture change, ritual and symbolic transformation, indigenous/oral histories, conceptions of time and the analysis of texts and visual images.

ANTHRO 310

Selected areas, periods or problems in archaeology.

ANTHRO 102

Introduction to the ancient world from origins of human culture to the beginnings of written history as revealed by archaeological research at great sites and ruins around the globe. Archaeological analyses of important sites as case studies to illustrate concepts and techniques used by archaeologists in their efforts to understand the diversity of the human past.