ANT 4041 - Landscape Archaeology		January-April 2003 South Borden Room 302

Details	Faculty	Ted Banning
	Classes	South Borden 302, Wednesdays, 10-12 AM
Evaluation	25%	Presentations
	25%	Seminars
	50%	Paper
Description		This graduate seminar is dedicated to the archaeology of landscapes, as opposed to site-oriented archaeology. From the analysis of prehistoric land use and field systems by Scandinavian and UK archaeologists through the "non-site" and "distributional" archaeology of some American archaeologists, to geoarchaeological approaches to landscapes, it places emphasis on how traces of material culture are distributed in space, whether clustered or not, and how they are related to both geomorphic and cultural processes. Possible topics include the spatial structure of human discard activity, geomorphological effects on regional distributions of material culture, the archaeology of field systems, woodlands and irrigation systems, distributional archaeology, landscape cosmology, and regional archaeological survey. Others include the history of archaeological approaches to landscapes and regions, and economic or ecological approaches to past settlement systems. Please think about topics on which you would like to do a presentation so that we can schedule the topics at the first class.
Students		Joan Banahan
		Terry Clark
		John Creese
		Brandy George
		Michael Gregg
		Emma Humphrey
		Seiji Kadowaki
		Sarah Lynchehaun
		Kisha Supernant
		Lynn Welton

Last Update: 10 January 2004

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