Undergraduate Catalogue of Courses 2012/2013
ARCHAEOLOGY
Course Co-ordinator: Professor K Dobney
Pre-requisite(s): AY 3003 Archaeological Science is recommended for students in MA Archaeology single or joint honours programmes and is compulsory for students in BSc Archaeology programmes.
Note(s): This course is appropriate for Geography, Geology, and Biology students, as well as more humanities-based students taking the single or joint honours Archaeology programmes. It is a compulsory component of the BSc in Archaeology, the BSc in Archaeology with Chemistry and the BSc in Archaeology-Geography. This course may NOT be included in a graduating curriculum with AY4507.
The course will provide students with a multi-trajectory pathway for studying and understanding a range of important issues associated with the complex intersections of human culture, behaviour and ecology. Through lectures, practicals and seminar sessions students will gain a detailed understanding of key research themes in palaeoecology, including:
- (a) human-environment interactions and their relationship to subsistence, diet, health and welfare.
- (b) the dispersal of humans, plants and animals around the globe (e.g. human, plant and animal migrations, colonisations, diasporas, Neolithic farming dispersals, etc.)
- (c) the social, economic and religious impacts of new kinds of human relationships with plants and animals and wider ecological settings.
1 two-hour lecture every two weeks (8 hours total), 4 two-hour practical based laboratory sessions (8 hours total), 4 two-hour tutorials (8 hours total).
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%); continuous assessment (50%) in the form of an essay.
Resit: Marks from continuous assessment to be carried forward (50%); 1 two-hour written examination (50%).