SEMINAR IN ARCHAEOLOGY

SEMINAR IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Spring 2006

1023 Moore Hall

Office Hours; TBA or appointment

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Texts:

Matthew Johnson Archaeological Theory Blackwell 1999

Ian Hodder Archaeological Theory Today Polity 2001

Trigger A History of Archaeological Thought

Other readings noted in text are be found in the library reserve and the departmental library.

Requirements: Be prepared for class. Do all readings at the appropriate time. Take an active part in all class discussions. Participation is important for the final determination of grades.

Tasks:

1) Each student will be expected to give a 35-minute presentation on one of the topics noted in the syllabus. In consultation with me you will write up a one-page report on the presentation, which will be distributed to the class during your report.

2)Write a 20 page paper dealing with the topic you have previously presented.

<>3) Hand in questions for each class discussion. These questions should not be data or fact questions (feel free to ask those during class), but areas you would like to see discussed.

5)There will be two essay exams during the semester (mid term and final). Each of the exams and the paper will represent 30%of the grade. The remaining 10% will be based upon class participation.

Objective: To give an understanding of the forces influencing archaeological history and the relationship of archaeological intellectual history to anthropology and scholarship in general. To give an understanding of the changing and varied nature of archaeological paradigms, to follow the historical conditions influencing archaeological interpretation and provide the participants with the ability to appropriately apply new techniques and approaches to archaeological problems.

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Week 1(Jan.8) Introduction/Assignments/

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Week 2(Jan 22) What is Archaeology; The Role of History in Archaeology

Johnson Ch. 1

Trigger A History of Archaeological Thought Ch. 1

Patrik 1985; Is there an Archaeological

Record in ADVANCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD

AND THEORY, 8, pp.27 -62

Topic: Can Archaeology be objective?

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Week 3(Jan 29) Dating and categorizing

Trigger ch.II -V

Topics: From Antiquarianism to Secure Chronologies.

A)How did the ability to establish more secure chronologies (relative and absolute) change the focus of archaeology

B)New “Scientific Methods in Archaeology

C)American Systems of Cultural Categorization; How do they work? What assumptions do they make about the archaeological record?

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Week 4(Feb. 5) Differerent Directions in Archaeology: Soviet Archaeology and the Growth of Functionalism

Trigger ch. VI -VII

Flannery 1972b

Taylor 1948

Topic:A)Taylor's (and other’s ) Critique of Archaeology

B)Functionalism in Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective

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Week 5 (Feb 12) The 1960's and the New Archaeology/ Evolutionism

Johnson Ch 2-5

Binford 1968; Archaeological Perspectives,NEW

PERSPECTIVES IN ARCH.,pp.5 32

Flannery; Culture History vs. Cultural

Process. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, PP. 119 122.

Topics: A)Systems Theory

B)Cultural Evolutionism in Anthropology and Archaeology

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Week 6 (Feb 19) The Old "New Archaeology" and Alternative Archaeologies

La Motta and Schiffer Behavioral Archaeology A New Synthesis in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Flannery 1982;The Golden Marshalltown in

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 84:256 278; L.

Binford 1989;The New Arch. Then and Now in L

S. Mithen Archaeological Theory… in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Shanks Culture/Archaeology in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Topic: Behavioral Archaeology; Where is it today

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Week 7 (Feb 26 ) Social Approaches/Symbolic Approaches/Critical Approaches

Johnson 7

Thomas, Kirk in Interpretative Archaeology pp.181-223

Flannery 1972; The Cultural evolution of

Civilizations, ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY AND

SYSTEMATICS, VOL.3, pp. 399 426.

Leone, M. 1986 Symbolic, Structural and Critical Archaelogy pp. 415-438.

Topic: Social and Interpretive Archaeology

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Recess

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Week 8 (Mar 12 ) Exam I

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Week 9 (Mar 19) Marxist and Neo-Marxist Approaches

Trigger 9

Johnson ch. 6

Zagarell, A. 1986 Trade Women and Class in Ancient Mesopotamia

Marquardt; Dialectical Archaeology, in Arch. Method and Theory 4 1992

McGuire and Saitta 1996

Shanks, Tilley Reconstructing Archaeology, pp.103-134

. Brumfiel, E. 1994 Factions:551-567

Topic: Marxism and Archaeology (Directions in Marxism)

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Week 10 (Mar 26 ) The Archaeology of Gender/and Identity

Trigger 10

Johnson 8

L. Meskell Archaeologies of Identity in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Wright, R. 1996 Technology, Gender and Class: 79-110

Conkey and Gero Tensions, Pluralities and Engendering Arch 3-31

Costin 1996 111-142

Topics: A)History of Gender Studies

B)Gender, Race and Class-how do they interact?

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Week 11 (April 2) Biological and Neo-Evolutionary Approaches to Archaeology

Johnson 9

Mithen, 1989 Evolutionary Theory

Leonard Evolutionary Archaeology in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Yellen 1989; The Present and the Future of Hunter Gatherer Studies in Lamberg Karlovsky

(ed.)Archaeological Thought in America, pp. 89 -103.

Wylie, Alison, 1985, The Reaction against Analogy, Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory,

Vol. 8, pp. 63-111. Academic Press.Series editor, Michael Schiffer.

Topic:A)The Critique of Biological Approaches to Archaeology

B)Critique of Ethnoarchaeology

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Week 12 (April 9)History, Ethno-Archaeology, Spatial Studies.

Johnson 10-12

Conkey 1990 5-17

Mrozowski 1991:79-102

J. Thomas Archaeologies of Place and Landscape in Hodder

Archaeological Theory Today

Yellen 1989; The Present and the Future of Hunter Gatherer Studies in Lamberg Karlovsky

(ed.)Archaeological Thought in America, pp. 89 -103.

Wylie, Alison, 1985, The Reaction against Analogy, Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory,

Vol.8,pp.63-111.Academic

Press.Serieseditor,MichaelSchiffer.

Topic: A)Utilizing Spatial Studies/Landscapes; varied methods

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Week 13 (April 16) Archaeology of Style/ Ethnohistory/State

TBA

Papers to be handed in

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Final Exam

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Bibliography For 602

Binford, Lews R. 1989 The “New Archaeology,: Then and Now. In Archaeological Thought in America, edited by C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, pp.50-62. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Brumfiel, E. 1994 Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology:...American Anthropologist, vol. 94:551-567

Conkey, M.W. and J. Gero 1991 Tensions, Pluralities, and Engendering Archaeology: An Introduction to Women and Prehistory. In Engendering Archaelogy: Women and Prehistory, ed. By J. Gero and M. Conkey, pp. 3-30. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Conkey and Spector 1984, Archaeology and the Study of Gender. Advances in archaeological theory and method, pp.1 29

Conkey 1990 5-17Experimenting with style in archaeology: some historical and theoretical issues. In Conkey and Hastorf (eds.) The Uses of Style in Archaeology. Pp. 5-17

Costin, C. 1996 Exploring the Relationship between Gender and Craft in Complex Societies: Methodological and Theoretical Issues of Gender Attribution in Wright (ed.) Gender and Archaeology pp. 111-142.

Dunnell, R1995, What Is It That Actually Evolves?, in Patrice A. Teltser, ed., Evolutionary Archaeology, Arizona. pp.33-50.

Flannery, K.V. 1972 Culture History vs. Cultural Process: A Debate in American Archaeology. In Contemporary Archaeology. Ed by M.P. Leone Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale

Flannery 1972; The Cultural evolution of Civilizations, Annual review of ecology and

systematics, VOL.3, pp. 399 426.

Flannery 1982;The Golden Marshalltown in American Anthropologist 84:256 278;

Gilman 1989;Marxism in American Archaeology in L. Karlovsky (ed (ed.)Archaeological Thought in America, pp.63 74

Hodder, I. 1985 Post-Processual Archaeology. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 8, edited by M. B. Shiffer, pp. 1-26, Academic Press, New York.

Hodder, and C. Orton (eds)1976 Spatial analysis in archaeology, ch.4, pp.53 97;

Jones, George , Robert Leornard, and Alysia L. Abbot, 1995 The Structure of Selectionist Explanations in Archaeology, in Patrice A. Teltser, ed., Evolutionary Archaeology, Arizona. 13-32

Kirk, T. 1993 Space, Subjectivity, Power and Hegemony: in C. Tilley (ed) Interpretative Archaeology. Providence : Berg, 1993. pp.181-223

Kohl, P. L 1991 Materialist Approaches in Prehistory. Annual Review of Anthropology 10:89-118.

Leone, M. 1986 Symbolic, Structural and Critical Archaeology. In American archaeology. Past and Future, ed. D. Meltzer, D. Fowler, and J. Sabloff, pp. 415-438. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C.

Marquardt; Dialectical Archaeology, in Arch. Method and Theory 4 1992

McGuire and Saitta 1996 Although they have Petty Captains…The Dialectics of Prehispanic Western Pueblo Social Organization. American Antuquity 61: 197-213

Mithen, Steven 1989 Evolutionary theory and post-processual archaeology.

In Antiquity; a quarterly review of archaeology. 63 n 240:

Mrozowski, S.A. 1991 Landscapes of Inequality. In The Archaeology of Inequality, ed. By R. McGuire and R. Paynter, pp. 1-27. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Patrik, L. 1985 Is there an Archaeological Record? In Advance in Method and Theory, vol. 8 ed. By M. Schiffer, pp. 27-62. Academic Press.

Paynter, R. and Randall Mcguire 1991 The Archaeology of Inequality: Material Culture, Domination and Resistance. In The Archaeology of Inequality, ed. By R. McGuire and R. Paynter, pp. 1-27. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Shanks, M. and C. Tilley 1992 Reconstructing Archaeology, pp.103-134, 247-266

Thomas, J. 1993 The Hermeneutics of Megalithic Space. In C. Tilley (ed) Interpretative Archaeology pp.73-181

Willey, G. and J. Sablof 1993 A History of American Archaeology, 3^rd editon, by G. Willey and J. Sabloff, pp. 214-311. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York.

Wylie, Alice 1991 Gender Theory and the Archaeological Record. In Engendering Archaelogy: Women and Prehistory, ed. By J. Gero and M. Conkey, pp.31-54 Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Wright, R 1996 Technology, Gender and Class: Worlds of Difference in Ur III Mesopotamia in Wright (ed.) Gender and Archaeology pp. 79-111

Yellen 1989; The Present and the Future of Hunter Gatherer Studies in Lamberg Karlovsky (ed.)Archaeological Thought in America, pp.89 103.

Zagarell, A 1986 Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia Current Anthropology 27: 415-420.