| source Yale (X) |
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department Archaeological Studies (X) |
Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu, So The archaeology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley from early agriculture to class formation and the early cities and empires. How did these societies develop and why did they collapse? Earliest epics and contemporary ideologies, including the Bushes in Baghdad, examined in literature and film.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas So Examination of selected archaeological hoaxes, cult theories, and fantasies; demonstration of how archaeology can be manipulated to authenticate nationalistic ideologies, religious causes, and modern stereotypes. Examples of hoaxes and fantasies include the lost continent of Atlantis, Piltdown man, ancient giants roaming the earth, and alien encounters. Evaluation of how, as a social science, archaeology is capable of rejecting such interpretations about the past.
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TTh 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Areas Sc The nature and classification of sedimentary rock bodies; principles in determining their ages by fossils and other means; interpretation of depositional environments; the historical record of the dynamic response of sediments to mountain building, to changes in sea level and climate, and to the evolution of Earth's biota. Laboratory sessions include one overnight weekend field trip and one Saturday field trip.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Hu Study of three ancient cities buried by volcanic eruptions - Thera in c. 1530 B.C. and Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79 - with emphasis on their architecture, wall paintings, and small finds in cultural and historical context.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu
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TTh 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Survey of the archaeological evidence for the original contributions of the African continent to the human condition. The unresolved issues of African pre-history, from the time of the first hominids, through the development of food production and metallurgy, to the rise of states and cities.
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MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping, dating, and ecological analysis.
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Sa 8.30-5.00 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Instruction in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut. Stratigraphy, mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas So Overview of major underwater archaeological discoveries, from shipwrecks to sunken cities. Technology and methods used to find, survey, excavate, and interpret submerged sites.
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Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Analysis of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politicoeconomic innovation in Mesopotamia, from sedentary agriculture villages to cities and states to early empire. Focus on combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces that drove these developments.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period The diversity of early Andean complex societies and their transformations during the first two millennia B.C. Special attention to the Chavin civilization of the northern Peruvian highlands, including its art, technology, socioeconomic organization, territorial expansion, and cultural antecedents. Emphasis on recent research and on explanatory models that have been used to explain the emergence of complexity in pre-Hispanic Peru.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Examination of methods for obtaining data relevant to ecological factors that have affected human evolutionary change, such as changes in climate, competition with other animals, and availability and kinds of food supply. Evaluation of techniques for obtaining ecological data in such fields as geology, paleobotany, and paleozoology. Ethnographic, primatological, and other biological models of early human behavior.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Qualified students may pursue special reading or research under the guidance of an instructor. A written statement of the proposed research must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies for approval.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politicoeconomic vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in face of abrupt climate change; anthropogenic environmental degradation; resource depletion; ?barbarian? incursions; and class conflict.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required A global and interdisciplinary survey of ancient religious sites, from tombs and temples to entire sacred landscapes. Focus on reconstructing the ancient beliefs encoded within the archaeological record.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Required of all students majoring in Archaeological Studies. Supervised investigation of some archaeological topic in depth. The course requirement is a long essay to be submitted as the student's senior essay. The student should present a prospectus and bibliography to the director of undergraduate studies no later than the third week of the term. Written approval from the faculty member who will direct the reading and writing for the course must accompany the prospectus.
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ARCG 720 01 (10266) /ARCG320/ANTH720/ANTH320 Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 Analysis of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politico-economic innovation from the earliest sedentary agriculture villages, to the earliest cities and states, to the earliest empire. What combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces drove these developments in these regions during this 10,000-year span?
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ARCG 725 01 (10706) /AMST735/HSAR725 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009
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ARCG 730 01 (14059) /NELC107/NELC514/ARCG238/HSAR238 MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009
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ARCG 732 01 (10269) /ANTH277/ANTH732/ARCG277 MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping, dating, and ecological analysis. The lab offers instruction in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut in stratigraphy, mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy. ARCG 732a and 733a must be taken concurrently and are counted together as 1 credit.
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ARCG 733 01 (10270) /ARCG278L/ANTH278L/ANTH733 Sa 8.30-5.00 Fall 2009 An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping, dating, and ecological analysis. The lab offers instruction in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut in stratigraphy, mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy. ARCG 732a and 733a must be taken concurrently and are counted together as 1 credit.
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ARCG 742 01 (14058) /HSAR744 Fall 2009
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ARCG 748 01 (10272) /ANTH748 M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009
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ARCG 749 01 (10335) /CLSS846/HSAR570 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Marguerite Yourcenar's famed fictional
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