2023

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...

Prof. Joseph Gone M 12:00 PM - 2:45PM American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities attribute this distress to their...

Prof. Annikki Herranen-Tabibi Th 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Historically, the Circumpolar Arctic has often figured as a scientific frontier and horizon – from exploration and discovery to the circulation and popularization of scientific knowledge. Amidst...

Prof. Jennifer Biddle T 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM The course is an introduction to Australian First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island art and new media. The focus is arts of the Central and Western Desert. The course maps sites of language and cultural...

Prof. Ruth Mandel W 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM This course applies ethnographic approaches to engage with memorials and monuments. In light of the demonumenting movement, how should we think about alternative monuments and memorials such as artist Gunter Demnig’s...

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...