Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Description
Meets with HIST 4000. The purpose of this course is to give historians a basic understanding of the archaeological record and in doing so enable them to use archaeological data for research. The course begins with an overview of archaeological method and theory. After this introduction to the fundamentals of archaeology it focuses on interpretation, addressing such questions as how archaeological data can be used both to reconstruct the past and to build historical models.