APY 652LEC - Graduate Survey Archaeology

The aim of this course is to provide: 1) a broad overview of the development of human societies in the Old World from ca. 2.5 million years ago to 2000 B.C.; 2) an examination of controversies concerning the subsistence strategies of the earliest humans, the transition to farming, explanations for the transition to farming, the origins of state societies and urbanism, and the explanation of state formation; and 3) main theoretical trends in Anglo-American archaeology: culture history, processual archaeology, and postprocessual explanations.

Credits: 3