ANTH 5444 is also offered in Spring 2025
ANTH 5444 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2025 | ANTH 5444 Section 001: Archaeological Ceramics (64821)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:55PM
UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (0 of 0 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. Methods of assessing technology/use. Research, design, and interpretation of ceramic analyses. Students work with collections and propose/answer a research question about a ceramic assemblage. Readings, discussion. prereq: 3001 or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Nearly every archaeologist encounters pottery fragments in site excavations and/or collections analysis at some point in her/his career. This is because of the durability the material and near-ubiquity of ceramic utilization. The goal of this course is to give you the essential working vocabulary and knowledge of ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. In this course we will read and discuss ceramic technology and use, learn the methods of assessing the various aspects of pottery production (raw material mixtures, building, decorating, and firing) through hands-on work with department collections, and critically review the research design and interpretations of other archaeologists? ceramic analyses. Grade is based on lab exercises, one exam, and a directed research project.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64821/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 November 2012
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