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CONCEPTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Course Code:
ANTH 219
Course Group(s):
HUMANS IN CONNECTION
Active Term:
Fall Term
/ All Years
Course Description:

This course is intended to provide sophomore level Anthropology/Archaeology students with a contemporary heuristic framework for successful interpretation of archaeological signatures. Topics only introduced in the Freshmen level sequence of Archaeology and World Cultures that pertain to the archaeological interpretation of past human practices and, the archaeological techniques for reconstructing past human practices will explored in depth, thus providing a necessary foundation for upper division coursework in Anthropology/Archaeology. The course is divided into eight thematic areas, and encounter with course topics will be obtained via directed reading, lectures, seminar style discussion and projects, and the preparation of essay papers.

Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
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