Archaeology

Profs. Jason Ur and Bill Fash M 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM This seminar delves into the world’s earliest cities: their origins, their operations, and their collapses. It considers how we define this term, and why every settlement doesn’t grow into a city. The...

F 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Prof. Rowan Flad F 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM A close reading of archaeological site reports and secondary literature related to topics in Chinese Archaeology, with a focus on complex societies.

Prof. Sarah Hlubik W 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM This is a quantitative methods course geared toward archaeological data analysis. The course will focus on types of data, descriptive and analytical statistics, and mapping and spatial relationships. Students will...

Dr. Jennifer Carballo T Th 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM How have ancient food practices shaped the ways we eat today, and how can lessons from the past help us address challenges facing the future of food? GenEd 1178 focuses on the archaeology and history of the...

Prof. Sarah Hlubik T/Th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM This course will cover the archaeological record of the Pleistocene. Students will gain an understanding of the biological and geological setting of the time period, with a biogeographic overview of Plio...

Prof. Jason Ur 12-1:15pm Archaeology has focused traditionally on excavations of settlement sites. However, no settlement existed as an island; ancient peoples moved within a larger environment which constrained their actions while it was simultaneously...

Prof. Christina Warinner M/W 3-4:15pm Archaeological science is the application of scientific techniques to study the human past. Methods in archaeological science build upon core concepts and methods in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences and...