CLASS 7742 - [Research Methods in Archaeology]

(crosslisted) ANTHR 7742, ARKEO 7742, ARTH 6252

Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

Open to upper level undergraduates with permission of the instructor.

S. Manning.

This seminar course will critically review the research history of, research methods in, and current problems and issues in Archaeology (with some bias towards the Old World: Medieval through Classical to Prehistoric). It will focus on discussion of topic areas via weekly readings. Areas to be considered will include: history of archaeology, archaeological theory and interpreting the past, classical archaeology, excavation, survey, managing the past and issues of ethics and collecting and looting, dating, science v. humanities in archaeology, religion and ritual in archaeology, settlement archaeology, material culture and economic archaeology, social archaeology, gender, archaeology and texts.