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Myths, Rituals and the Sacred: Mircea Eliade and the History of Religions

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Prof. Davíd Carrasco W 3-5pm This seminar is an intensive introduction to the writings of Mircea Eliade and his influence on the “Chicago School” of the History of Religions. We will read selections from his scholarly works, literary writings and journals...

ANTHRO 2090 Economic Archaeology: Trade and Culture Contact

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Prof. Rowan Flad Th 12:00-2:45pm This seminar explores trade and culture contact in archaeological contexts. We will focus in particular on “colonization” and “trade diasporas,” critically examining how these inter-society relations, which are a current...

FYSEMR 73U Reading the History of Boston

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Prof. Jason Ur M 3:00-5:45pm Course open to First-Year Students Only. Trips will be included at no cost to the student. Students will get to know Greater Boston by getting out of the classroom and getting off campus.

GENED 1148 Moctezuma’s Mexico Then and Now: Ancient Empires, Race Mixture, and Finding LatinX

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Profs. Davíd Carrasco and Bill Fash M W 10:30-11:45am How does Mexico's rich cultural past shape contemporary Mexico and the US in the face of today's pandemics, protests and other challenges of the borderlands? This course provides students with the...

Elyse Venerable

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Mobility and Trade Networks in Trans-Saharan Africa; Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (Sr,C,N); Zooarchaeology of Working Animals; Black Diasporan Agency and Migration

Priya Patel

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Biomolecular archaeology; human diet; South Asia; stable isotope analysis; animal domestication & agriculture; population genetics.

Yiduo He

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Mesoamerica, Preclassic Maya, early monumentality, early complex societies, social stratification, remote sensing technologies, cultural heritage

Dylan Flicker

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Research Interests: Lithic analysis, Middle Stone Age archaeology, Late Stone Age archaeology, Homo sapiens origins, population mobility, off-site archaeology, geospatial archaeology, paleodemography.

Dylan studies human origins and behavior through the...

ANTHRO 1255 - Human Diet: From Neanderthals to the Future of Food

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Prof. Christina Warinner M W 3-4:15pm This course surveys the evolution of human diet, from the foods of our earliest ancestors to the contents of today’s supermarkets. We’ll cover the definition of food, human nutritional requirements, major dietary...

ANTHRO 2413 - Comparative Human Ecologies

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Prof. Shayla Monroe M 9-11:45am This course surveys of wide variety approaches to ecological studies in Africa and places them in dialogue with paleoecology and environmental archaeology. We will interrogate the relationships between the following...