Unit name | Advanced Issues in Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Unit code | ARCH35013 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Heyd |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The aim of this unit is to introduce third year students to advanced issues in Archaeology and Anthropology, with particular emphasis on illustrating how the two disciplines may be combined. The course is both historical, in that it introduces the way that the two disciplines have pursued parallel but often intersecting paths over the last century, and also thematic, in that it demonstrates the way that these themes may be considered through specific examples, such as the study of gender; material culture; heritage and nationalism; kinship and genetics; societal organisation and the emergence of states.
Aims:
At the end of the unit, a successful student will be able to:
1) Discuss the recent history of both archaeology and anthropology, and areas where they may overlap.
2) Identify key thinkers and a number of cases which bring the disciplines together.
3) Analyse current trends in data collection and analysis (including those dependant upon technological advancement), and the implications that these recent developments may have for the way that the disciplines may come together.
4)Conceptualise and articulate these issues with reference to the current, and possible future practise of the discipline.
Weekly 2hr session of lecture and discussion.
One 3000 word essay (50%). Assesses ILOs 1-4
One 2 hour written examination (50%). Assesses ILOs 3 and 4.
Monroe, J. C (2011). Urbanisation on West Africa's Slave Coast. American Scientist 99: 400-409.