ANTH 216 - Digging Culture: Archaeology and Evolution

3 Credit(s)

Archaeology is one of the four fields of anthropology. Its techniques involve the recovery of artifacts from the earth, including buried material from crime scenes. Its subject involves discovering the past and the nature and causes of societal evolution, especially over the longer term. This course looks at the methods, interpretative tools, and insights of archaeology with hands-on work in class, and the results of archaeological work from Old and New World cases. This course emphasizes problem-solving techniques and perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite.