| source Stanford (X) |
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department Archaeology (X) |
The culture of ancient Egypt, from the predynastic to the end of the New Kingdom (3500-1070 B.C.E.), using evidence from funerary and religious monuments, settlements, and mortuary records. Egyptian gods and myths, pyramids and mummies, defied kings and animals,. Sources includes art, texts, and archaeology. The ancient Egyptian worldview and how the Egyptians created and contested all aspects of their daily lives, for eternity. Field trips to local museum exhibitions.
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Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each.
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The practice of historical archaeology through methodologies including archival research, oral history, material culture analysis, and archaeological excavation. Students use these methods to analyze the history and archaeology of a local park, the Thornewood Open Space Preserve.
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Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions.
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Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches.
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Early China from the perspective of material remains unearthed from archaeological sites; the development of Chinese culture from early hominid occupation nearly 2 million years ago through the development of agriculture in the Neolithic period and complex society in the Bronze Age to the political unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. Continuity of Chinese culture from past to present, history of Chinese archaeology, relationships between archaeology and politics, and food in early China.
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The historical, commercial, and intellectual contexts of the collection and misappropriation of cultural artifacts from the 18th century to the present; implications and what they reveal about human engagement with the material past. Emphasis is on contemporary legal and ethical issues of trade and repatriation.
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Practical, theoretical, and ethical issues which face museums and collections. Practical collections-based work, museum visits, and display research. The roles of the museum in contemporary society. Students develop their own exhibition and engage with the issues surrounding the preservation of material culture.
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Academic, contract, government, field, laboratory, museum, and heritage aspects of the profession.
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The culture of ancient Egypt, from the predynastic to the end of the New Kingdom (3500-1070 B.C.E.), using evidence from funerary and religious monuments, settlements, and mortuary records. Egyptian gods and myths, pyramids and mummies, defied kings and animals,. Sources includes art, texts, and archaeology. The ancient Egyptian worldview and how the Egyptians created and contested all aspects of their daily lives, for eternity. Field trips to local museum exhibitions.
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