| ARCHLGY1 | Introduction to Archaeology | Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphas... |
| ARCHLGY102 | Archaeological Methods | Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the stud... |
| ARCHLGY102B | Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology | The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The d... |
| ARCHLGY103 | History of Archaeological Thought | Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and top... |
| ARCHLGY103A | Human Osteoarchaeology | The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist o... |
| ARCHLGY104 | Digital Methods in Archaeology | Archaeologists have long adapted and incorporated available digital tools into their methodological toolkits. The recent explosion in computing power and availability has led to a proliferation of digital apparatus in archaeology and sparked dynamic... |
| ARCHLGY104B | Landscapes of Inequality: The Southwestern United | Inequality is one of the major social issues of the current moment in the United States. Racial, economic, and gender inequality has been even more pronounced in the fall out of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. These injustices are identifiabl... |
| ARCHLGY105 | Global Heritage: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Diplomacy | Archaeological studies from the 1990s framed cultural heritage as a resource that created attachments to place and to the past as a means to buttress national and cultural identities. But heritage can no longer be viewed as simply a marker of a singu... |
| ARCHLGY106 | The Archaeology of Climate | This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., soci... |
| ARCHLGY108 | Ancient DNA and the Human Past | The rapidly growing field of paleogenomics has brought together researchers from a wide variety of fields and perspectives in the social and natural sciences. This survey course is designed for students from all backgrounds interested in developing p... |
| ARCHLGY109 | Religions of Ancient Eurasia | This course will explore archaeological evidence for the ritual and religions of Ancient Eurasia, including Greco-Roman polytheism, early Christianity, and early Buddhism. Each week, we will discuss the most significant themes, methods, and approache... |
| ARCHLGY109A | Archaeology of the Modern World | Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjuncti... |
| ARCHLGY110 | Environmental Archaeology | This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists as... |
| ARCHLGY111 | Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces | Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnin... |
| ARCHLGY111B | Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives | This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides... |
| ARCHLGY112A | Muwekma Community Engaged Learning, Cultural Heritage and Native Plants Garden Field Project | This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engaged in community based participatory research. More specifically students will be creating tending and maintaining a native plants garden in the area surroundi... |
| ARCHLGY113 | Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis | The course examines the impact of new research in epigenetics on our understanding of long-term cultural change. The course examines the various attempts that have been made over recent decades to find a synthesis between cultural and biological evol... |
| ARCHLGY114 | Rights and Ethics in Heritage | Heritage is a human thing: made by people and mobilized for their own purposes, it has a range of effects on communities. This course focuses on the human dimension of heritage with special attention to questions of rights and ethics. Where can we lo... |
| ARCHLGY115 | The Social life of Human Bones | Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation an... |
| ARCHLGY116 | Heritage Development in the Global South | Heritage is a site of both promise and contestation in the Global South. These nations use it for a wide range of purposes: Peru¿s thriving tourism sector rests on a basis of heritage attractions, South Africa negotiates a post-apartheid identity thr... |
| ARCHLGY116A | Eating Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Food | Everyone eats, it's an essential and universal part of human existence. But food is not just about calories and nutrition - it is rich with meaning and memory. In this course, we take a broad view of the social meanings of food, cooking, and eating t... |
| ARCHLGY116B | Anthropology of the Environment | This seminar interrogates the history of anthropology's approach to the environment, beginning with early functionalist, structuralist, and Marxist accounts of human-environment relationships. It builds towards more recent developments in the field,... |
| ARCHLGY117 | Virtual Italy | Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu... |
| ARCHLGY118 | Engineering the Roman Empire | Enter the mind, the drafting room, and the building site of the Roman architects and engineers whose monumental projects impressed ancient and modern spectators alike. This class explores the interrelated aesthetics and mechanics of construction that... |
| ARCHLGY119 | Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains | As regularly noted, whether historic or pre-historic, animal bones are often the most commonly occurring artefacts on archaeological sites. As bioarchaeological samples, they offer the archaeologist an insight into food culture, provisioning, trade a... |
| ARCHLGY121B | "The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress | This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours... |
| ARCHLGY122A | Decolonizing Archaeology | What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp... |
| ARCHLGY124 | Archaeology of Food: production, consumption and ritual | This course explores many aspects of food in human history from an archaeological perspective. We will discuss how the origins of agriculture helped to transform human society; how food and feasting played a prominent role in the emergence of social... |
| ARCHLGY125 | Archaeological Field Survey Methods | Practicum applying a variety of survey techniques to discover, map, and record archaeological sites. Basic cartographic skills for archaeologists and an introduction to GIS tools, GPS instruments, and geophysical techniques. Participants should be ab... |
| ARCHLGY125A | Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology | Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor... |
| ARCHLGY126 | Archaeobotany | Archaeobotany, also known as paleoethnobotany, is the study of the interrelationships of plants and humans through the archaeological record. Knowledge and understanding of Archaeobotany sufficient to interpret, evaluate, and understand archaeobotani... |
| ARCHLGY127 | HERITAGE POLITICS | Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17t... |
| ARCHLGY128 | Europe Before the Romans: Early Complex Societies | This course will provide a broad introduction to theories of change in early complex societies and polities. Over the course of the quarter, we will examine a series of hotly debated theoretical frameworks. From the beginning, you will develop a case... |
| ARCHLGY129 | Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality | How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology. |
| ARCHLGY129C | A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day | The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi... |
| ARCHLGY130 | Senior research seminar for Archaeology majors and minors | The aim of this research seminar is to provide an opportunity for students to experience and participate in research projects that bring together various aspects of the archaeology courses taken during the student's time at Stanford. The research pro... |
| ARCHLGY132 | Living in Places Studying Spaces: Archlgical and Crit. approaches to Spatial Production and Practice | This class will provide students with an understanding of space as socially constituted in the interactions between people and things. It will explore the multiple scales at which space is constituted and the modalities of this production. This explo... |
| ARCHLGY133 | EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY | This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in experimental study in archaeology. Undergraduates who are not Archaeology Majors will need permission from the instructor. We will discuss the current issues in the discipline, parti... |
| ARCHLGY134 | Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary | Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space,... |
| ARCHLGY134A | Petroleum Geochemistry in Environmental and Archaeological Studies | This course focuses on petroleum, including gases, liquids, refined products, and `tar' from seeps used as a binder in archaeological artifacts, such as projectile points or pottery. The course is designed for students of geology, environmental scien... |
| ARCHLGY135 | Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology | Archaeological studies in contemporary East Asia share a common concern, to contribute to building a national narrative and cultural identity. This course focuses on case studies from China, Korea, and Japan, examining the influence of particular soc... |
| ARCHLGY136 | Latin American Pasts: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | Latin America is vast in pre-colonial and colonial monuments. Past societies defined by archaeologists - Aztecas, Chavin, Chinchorro, Inka, Maya, Moche, Nazca, Tiahuanaco, among others - cohabit with Spanish colonial era structures and contemporary h... |
| ARCHLGY137 | Political Exhumations. Killing Sites Research in Comparative Perspective | The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justi... |
| ARCHLGY138 | Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements | Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis... |
| ARCHLGY140 | Sicily and the Sea | Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily has for millennia represented a cultural crossroads and hub for the movement of peoples, objects, and ideas. Much of the island's history is reflected in sites and artifacts of maritime life: an... |
| ARCHLGY145 | Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean | Why do we care about shipwrecks? What can sunken sites and abandoned ports tell us about our past? Focusing primarily on the archaeological record of shipwrecks and harbors, along with literary evidence and contemporary theory, this course examines h... |
| ARCHLGY147B | World Heritage in Global Conflict | Heritage is always political, it is typically said. Such a statement might refer to the everyday politics of local stakeholder interests on one end of the spectrum, or the volatile politics of destruction and erasure of heritage during conflict, on t... |
| ARCHLGY148 | Ceramic Analysis for Archaeologists | The analysis and interpretation of ceramic remains allow archaeologists to accomplish varied ends: establish a time scale, document interconnections between different areas, and suggest what activities were carried out at particular sites. The techni... |
| ARCHLGY151 | Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design | Connections among science, technology, society and culture by examining the design of a prehistoric hand axe, Egyptian pyramid, ancient Greek perfume jar, medieval castle, Wedgewood teapot, Edison's electric light bulb, computer mouse, Sony Walkman,... |
| ARCHLGY152A | The Ancient Anthropocene: An Unnatural History of Roman Environments | This course will reflect on the significance of the Anthropocene over the short- and long-term by casting an environmental lens on the archaeology and history of Rome. It will draw from diverse paleo-environmental, archaeological, art historical, and... |
| ARCHLGY154 | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| ARCHLGY156 | Design of Cities | Long-term, comparative and archaeological view of urban planning and design. Cities are the fastest changing components of the human landscape and are challenging our relationships with nature. They are the historical loci of innovation and change, a... |
| ARCHLGY16 | Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America | What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading... |
| ARCHLGY160 | The Historical Archaeology of Latin America | How has the study of past material cultures contributed to our comprehension of the Iberian colonial experience in the New World? How has an archaeology of the recent past been presented to the public and made socially relevant in contemporary Latin... |
| ARCHLGY161 | The Archaeology of Institutions | Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu... |
| ARCHLGY162 | Archaeological approaches to Landscapes: How people and things make Places and Spaces | This class introduces students to the archaeological concept of landscape as a heuristic that can be used in critical analysis. Students will learn to articulate the ways that landscapes are constituted in the process of 'living'. They will be equipp... |
| ARCHLGY163 | Movements and Migrations: Understanding the Movements of People | Mass movements of people across the world is not a new phenomenon. And yet, in the contemporary moment, the pace of migration from global business networks to displacements from violence and climate change as well as the interconnectivity of social n... |
| ARCHLGY165 | Roman Gladiators | In modern America, gladiators are powerful representatives of ancient Rome (Spartacus, Gladiator). In the Roman world, gladiators were mostly slaves and reviled, barred from certain positions in society and doomed to short and dangerous lives. A fi... |
| ARCHLGY166 | African Archive Beyond Colonization | From street names to monuments, the material sediments of colonial time can be seen, heard, and felt in the diverse cultural archives of ancient and contemporary Africa. This seminar aims to examine the role of ethnographic practice in the political... |
| ARCHLGY173 | Heritage Institutions Inside Out: The Power of Bureaucracies | Anyone interested in how objects, places and customs become heritage should be interested in bureaucracies. Given that dealing with bureaucratic procedures often cause something of an allergic reaction among people, heritage researchers included, it... |
| ARCHLGY180 | Investigating Ancient Materials | This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco... |
| ARCHLGY188 | Matter and Mattering: Transdisciplinary Thinking about Things | Things sit at the nexus of cross-cutting heterogeneous processes; tracing the entanglements of any prominent thing or class of things demands a transdisciplinary approach that recruits expertise from the natural sciences, social sciences and humaniti... |
| ARCHLGY189 | Physical Analysis of Artworks | Students explore the use of Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF) for physical analysis of material samples of interest for art conservation, technical art history and archaeology. Weekly SNSF demonstrations will be supplemented by lectures on intel... |
| ARCHLGY190 | Archaeology Directed Reading/Independent Study | No Description Set |
| ARCHLGY193 | Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History | (Undergraduates, enroll in 293B. Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period... |
| ARCHLGY195 | Independent Study/Research | Students conducting independent study and or research with archaeology faculty members. |
| ARCHLGY198A | Archaeological Geographic Information Systems | This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo... |
| ARCHLGY199 | Honors Independent Study | Independent study with honors faculty adviser. |
| ARCHLGY201 | Becoming Muslim: Practice, Assemblage, Tradition | The growing study of material Islam broadly occupies two distinct fields: first, archaeologies of premodern Islam and material histories and second, ethnographic meditations on the distinctive relation between the materiality of practice and subjecti... |
| ARCHLGY211 | Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces | Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnin... |
| ARCHLGY21Q | Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe | Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological... |
| ARCHLGY221B | "The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress | This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours... |
| ARCHLGY222A | Decolonizing Archaeology | What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp... |
| ARCHLGY224 | Archaeology of Food: production, consumption and ritual | This course explores many aspects of food in human history from an archaeological perspective. We will discuss how the origins of agriculture helped to transform human society; how food and feasting played a prominent role in the emergence of social... |
| ARCHLGY225 | Archaeological Field Survey Methods | Practicum applying a variety of survey techniques to discover, map, and record archaeological sites. Basic cartographic skills for archaeologists and an introduction to GIS tools, GPS instruments, and geophysical techniques. Participants should be ab... |
| ARCHLGY225A | Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology | Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor... |
| ARCHLGY226 | Archaeobotany | Archaeobotany, also known as paleoethnobotany, is the study of the interrelationships of plants and humans through the archaeological record. Knowledge and understanding of Archaeobotany sufficient to interpret, evaluate, and understand archaeobotani... |
| ARCHLGY227 | HERITAGE POLITICS | Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17t... |
| ARCHLGY229C | A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day | The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi... |
| ARCHLGY233 | EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY | This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in experimental study in archaeology. Undergraduates who are not Archaeology Majors will need permission from the instructor. We will discuss the current issues in the discipline, parti... |
| ARCHLGY234 | Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary | Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space,... |
| ARCHLGY234A | Petroleum Geochemistry in Environmental and Archaeological Studies | This course focuses on petroleum, including gases, liquids, refined products, and `tar' from seeps used as a binder in archaeological artifacts, such as projectile points or pottery. The course is designed for students of geology, environmental scien... |
| ARCHLGY235 | Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology | Archaeological studies in contemporary East Asia share a common concern, to contribute to building a national narrative and cultural identity. This course focuses on case studies from China, Korea, and Japan, examining the influence of particular soc... |
| ARCHLGY237 | Political Exhumations. Killing Sites Research in Comparative Perspective | The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justi... |
| ARCHLGY248 | Ceramic Analysis for Archaeologists | The analysis and interpretation of ceramic remains allow archaeologists to accomplish varied ends: establish a time scale, document interconnections between different areas, and suggest what activities were carried out at particular sites. The techni... |
| ARCHLGY254 | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| ARCHLGY280 | Investigating Ancient Materials | This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco... |
| ARCHLGY293 | Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History | (Undergraduates, enroll in 293B; Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period... |
| ARCHLGY298A | Archaeological Geographic Information Systems | This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo... |
| ARCHLGY299 | INDEPENDENT STUDY/RESEARCH | INDEPENDENT STUDY/RESEARCH |
| ARCHLGY29A | Indigenous dispossession and cultural heritage in Latin America | Indigeneity and cultural heritage are key terms for the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. Since the 20th century, state and international institutions have positioned cultural heritage formation... |
| ARCHLGY303 | Memory, Materiality, and Archaeology | This seminar will explore several themes related to memory and material culture - broadly conceived to include art, architecture, the built environment, and landscapes, through archaeological, historical, and ethnographic lenses. How can we understa... |
| ARCHLGY307 | Historical Archaeology of Race and Class in the Americas | The history of race in the Americas is one intimately tied to the formation of typologies of human bodies at work and the political, economic, and health disparities made manifest from imposed difference. This seminar is divided into three themes: Ho... |
| ARCHLGY34 | Animals and Us | The human-animal relationship is dynamic, all encompassing and durable. Without exception, all socio-cultural groups have evidenced complex interactions with the animals around them, both domesticated and wild. However, the individual circumstances o... |
| ARCHLGY342 | Archaeology of Roman Slavery | The archaeological study of Roman slavery has been severely limited by a focus on identifying the traces of slaves in the material record. This seminar explores a range of newer and more broadly conceived approaches to understanding slavery and slav... |
| ARCHLGY367 | Mediterranean Networks | The the ancient Mediterranean was highly interconnected is common knowledge, and the idea of integration has become a defining factory in current approaches to Greco-Roman cultural identities. Yet how connectivity functiond, and how we should effecti... |
| ARCHLGY376 | Methods, Theories, and Practice in Chinese Archaeology | This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in Chinese archaeology. We will discuss the current issues in the discipline, particularly related to archaeological research on food and foodways. We will conduct experimental study an... |
| ARCHLGY43N | The Archaeological Imagination | More than excavating ancient sites and managing collections of old things, Archaeology is a way of experiencing the world: imagining past lives through ruins and remains; telling the story of a prehistoric village through the remains of the site and... |
| ARCHLGY47 | Introduction to Digital Archaeology | While the tools of Digital Archaeology frequently change, using digital tools has been part of the discipline for decades. These tools and approaches provide new forms of research, visualization, and outreach to archaeological investigations. This... |
| ARCHLGY54N | Archaeology in the Digital Age | Like so many fields, archaeology is being transformed by new opportunities and challenges of technologies inconceivable only a generation ago: online tourist photographs are assisting replication of an arch destroyed by terrorists, detailed scans rev... |
| ARCHLGY58 | Egypt in the Age of Heresy | Perhaps the most controversial era in ancient Egyptian history, the Amarna period (c.1350-1334 BCE) was marked by great sociocultural transformation, notably the introduction of a new 'religion' (often considered the world's first form of monotheism)... |
| ARCHLGY60N | Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time | The aim in this course is to explore the archaeological evidence for long-term change with regard to 5 major questions of our time: Where do we come from? Has inequality increased? Have we become more violent? Why do we have so much stuff? What is th... |
| ARCHLGY75Q | Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Archaeology and the Modern History of the Ancient Near East | The decades between the early-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries saw substantial change in the region Europeans referred to as the Near East, characterized by the decline of the Ottoman empire, the disarray of World War I, and the establishment o... |
| ARCHLGY78 | Disruption and Diffusion: The Archaeology of Innovation | This undergraduate seminar uses engagement with canonical archaeological topics and questions about the emergence of civilization to introduce students to critical perspectives on the nature of novelty, progress, and modernity. The first weeks of the... |
| ARCHLGY80 | Heritage and Human Rights | What does archaeology have to say about human rights? Is there a right to cultural heritage? How can archaeology and heritage help protect rights¿or encroach upon them? Themes we will address in this course include the archaeological investigation of... |
| ARCHLGY81 | Introduction to Roman Archaeology | (Formerly CLASSART 81.) This course will introduce you to the material culture of the ancient Roman world, from spectacular imperial monuments in the city of Rome to cities and roads around the Mediterranean, from overarching environmental concerns... |
| ARCHLGY83 | Pots, People, and Press: Greek Archaeology in the Media | Archaeological discovery has long captured the popular imagination, and the media undoubtedly plays a crucial role in this phenomenon. In the case of Greek archaeology, much of this imagination has been intertwined with the legacies of ancient Greek... |
| ARCHLGY84 | Incas, Spaniards, and Africans: Archaeology of the Kingdom of Peru | Students are introduced to Andean archaeology from the rise of the Inca empire through the Spanish colonial period. We will explore archaeological evidence for the development of late pre-Hispanic societies in western South America, the Spanish conqu... |
| ARCHLGY86 | Digital Methods for Archaeology and Anthropology | Digital tools can be a powerful way of collecting, analyzing and presenting data in social-cultural anthropology and archaeology. This survey course is designed for students from all backgrounds interested in developing practical skills in computatio... |
| ARCHLGY92 | Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology | This course will introduce students to the art and archaeology of Greece and the Greek world from the Neolithic through Early Roman periods. By integrating both historical and current approaches to the archaeology of Greece, this course aims to suppl... |
| ARCHLGY95 | Monumental Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Politics | What is heritage? Who decides what and how pasts matter? Our pasts loom monumental in multiple senses. At the intersection of archaeology and anthropology, the emerging discipline of heritage is often described as the politics of the past. What peopl... |
| ARCHLGY96 | The Secret Lives of Statues | Statues-human-shaped sculptures-populate the uncanny valley that separates inert matter from living entities. For humans, this 'other population' can engender profound emotional responses, embody potent ideas, and entangle the politics of the past an... |
| ARCHLGY97 | Archaeology Internship | Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, museums or government agency. May be repeated for credit. Prior instructor consent needed. |