- Course Code
- AY 1001
- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr K Milek
Pre-requisites
None
Overview
Covering the first essentials of archaeological enquiry, the course includes three modules that will address:
The study of the past. Global history of archaeological enquiry in the context of developing ideas of artistic perspective, scientific reasoning and historical analysis. How the past has been conceptualised and how early antiquarian, poetic interest eventually became a discipline for scholarly research.
Material culture. Basic technologies, the principles of artefactual study, chronology, typology and other tools of an archaeological practice that works to understand the world of past people through the objects they have left behind.
Being human. Hominid evolution, the first humans and their ecology, early subsistence and social life, the origins of cognition and the human mind, development of abstract reasoning, symbolism, early evidence for 'art' and 'religion'.
Structure
3 one-hour lectures every week and 1 two-hour tutorial in weeks 14-21.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (67%) plus original in-course assessment carried forward (33%).