Uplands Archaeology in
the East
Symposium,
May 16-18, 2008
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Archaeology
* Studies past
cultures to reconstruct their daily life and to explain
how and why they changed
* RU offers opportunities to “get your hands dirty” doing
archaeology
through classes, a summer field school, and the Archaeology Lab
Archaeology is the branch of
Anthropology that focuses on the reconstruction of past
cultures. The goals are to reconstruct the daily life and
customs of people who lived in the past, and to trace cultural
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Archaeology
Archaeology has an extensive methodology for
excavating, collecting, and interpreting artifacts as the
primary evidence for understanding past cultures. |
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ANTH 222, Introduction to
Archaeology, is the introductory course to Archaeology. It
surveys the methods archaeologists use to interpret the past
lifeways of prehistoric and historic human cultures.
The Anthropology Program offers Forensic Archaeology (ANTH 232), World Prehistory (ANTH
332), and an
Archaeological Method and Theory class (ANTH 322) which combines fieldwork with laboratory
analysis of archaeological collections housed at RU. In this
class, students learn basic laboratory techniques of
classification and analysis of artifacts, including stone tools
and prehistoric and historic clay pottery. Students have
analysis projects which, when completed and revised, can be
presented at conferences or published.
Contact Dr. Cliff Boyd
(pictured above)
and Dr. Jake Fox
(pictured right)
to learn more about Archaeology at RU.
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The RU program offers students multiple
opportunities for hands-on experience both in the field and
in the Archaeology Laboratory (as in the photo above).
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Click here to read about
RU student involvement in
archaeological fieldwork at
Arnheim in Radford.
RU
also offers a Summer
Field School in Archaeology (ANTH 492). Click here to
learn more about the
Summer Field School. |
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