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ANU UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INFORMATION

Archaeology and Physical Anthropology





Summary of courses offered in Archaeology / Physical Anthropology in 2002

First semester

Second semester

First year

  

 Archaeology: An Introduction


 From Origins to Civilisations


Later years

  

 Archaeology and Identity in pre-Roman Europe: Who were the Celts?

 Archaeology of the Central Andes

 Culture, Biology and Population Dynamics

 Human Evolution

 Understanding Early Technologies

 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction

 Skeletal Analysis


 Analytical Methods for Anthropology and Archaeology

 Archaeology of South-west Asia and Egypt

 Landscape Archaeology

 Nutrition, Disease and the Human Environment

 Research Design in Archaeology



Complete list of Archaeology units


  Course code   Course Name Handout in
.pdf format  
  ARCH1111   Archaeology: an introduction Handout  
  ARCH1112 From Origins to Civilisations Handout
  ARCH2001 Archaeology of Southwest Asia and Egypt  Handout
  ARCH2002 Archaeology and Identity in pre-Roman Europe: who were the Celts?  Handout
  ARCH2004  Australian Archaeology  Handout
  ARCH2005  Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders  Handout
  ARCH2006  History of Archaeology: Discovering the Past  Handout
  ARCH2008  Animals, Plants and People: Ethnobiology and Domestication 
  ARCH2011  Human Evolution 
  ARCH2015  'Race' and Human Genetic Variation 
  ARCH2017  Landscape Archaeology 
  ARCH2019  Nutrition, Disease and the Human Environment  Handout
  ARCH2020  Culture, Biology and Population Dynamics 
  ARCH2021  Archaeology of Mexico and the Maya 
  ARCH2024  Human Society and Animal Society: comparison and relationships 
  ARCH2025  Technology, Culture and evolution 
  ARCH2027  Genes, Memes and Cultural Difference 
  ARCH2031  Archaeology of Culture Contact   Handout
  ARCH2032  Presenting the Past: Archaeology, Politics and Representation 
  ARCH2033  Gender and Archaeology 
  ARCH2034  Archaeology and the document 
  ARCH2035  Archaeological Formation Processes  Handout
  ARCH2036  Understanding Early Technologies  Handout
  ARCH2037  Post-Roman Archaeology of Britain: Arthur and the Anglo Saxons 
  ARCH2038  Foragers and Hunters of Pre-Agricultural Europe 
  ARCH2039  The origins and dispersals of Agricultural Populations  Handout
  ARCH2040  Archaeology of the Central Andes 
  ARCH2041  Introduction to Environmental Archaeology  Handout
  ARCH2050  Archaeology of China and Southeast Asia 
  ARCH2051  Introduction to cultural heritage management 
  ARCH2126  Analytical methods for Anthropology and Archaeology  Handout
  ARCH3000  Research design in Archaeology  Handout
  ARCH3004  Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods  Handout
  ARCH3005  Science and Myths of the Human Past: Atlantis and the Pyramid Builders 
  ARCH3010  Skeletal Analysis 
  ARCH3017  Archaeological Artefact Analysis  Handout
  ARCH3018  Selected Themes in Australian Archaeology 
  ARCH3019  Colonisation of Oceania: Vikings of the Pacific 
  ARCH3020  Selected Themes Southeast Asian Archaeology 



For more detailed descriptions of course offerings see the on-line handbook in .pdf format.





Unit classification

Archaeology units are sub-divided into three classes as follows:

Category Colour code Units
Practical/Method ARCH2026
ARCH2017
ARCH3004
ARCH3010
ARCH3017
Theory ARCH2002
ARCH2006
ARCH2008
ARCH2031
ARCH2032
ARCH2033
ARCH2034
ARCH2035
ARCH2036
ARCH2039
ARCH2041
ARCH3005
Regional ARCH2001
ARCH2002
ARCH2004
ARCH2005
ARCH2011
ARCH2015
ARCH2019
ARCH2020
ARCH2021
ARCH2037
ARCH2038
ARCH2040
ARCH2050
ARCH3018
ARCH3019
ARCH3020


Honours in archaeology




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Author: Peter Hiscock, School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Feedback: peter.hiscock@anu.edu.au .
Date Last Modified: 26-06-2002
URL: http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/aboutus/abuscourse.htm