Archaeology Program


Archaeology Minor


The minor in archaeology draws on a number of disciplines and departments — principally anthropology, classics, and art — in the study of the ancient world, the reconstruction of past lifeways, and the interpretation of ancient social, political and economic systems.

The minor consists of five courses: two core courses (no more than one of which can be a field school), one comparative course, one area-studies course and one topical course. The courses used to satisfy these requirements must come from at least two departments. At least one of the courses used to fulfill the minor's requirements must be numbered 300 or above.

Core Courses (choose two, no more than one of which is a field school):

ANTH 220 Principles of Archaeology
ANTH 451 Field School in North American Archaeology
ANTH 453 Field School in South American Archaeology
CLAR 411 Archaeological Field Methods

CLAR 650 Field School in Classical Archaeology

Comparative Courses (choose one):

ANTH 121 Ancient Cities of the Americas
ANTH 145 Introduction to World Prehistory
ANTH 148 Human Origins
ANTH 412 Paleoanthropology
ANTH 456 Archaeology and Ethnography of Small-Scale Societies
ANTH 468 State Formation
CLAR 120 Ancient Cities

Area-Studies Courses (choose one):

ANTH 231 Archaeology of South America
ANTH 350 Archaeology of North American Indians
ANTH 359 European Prehistory
CLAR 050 First Year Seminar: Art in the Ancient City [first-year students only]
CLAR 241 Archaeology of Ancient Near East
CLAR 243 Minoans and Mycenaeans: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece
CLAR 244 Greek Archaeology [cross-listed in ART]
CLAR 245 Archaeology of Italy [cross-listed in ART]
CLAR 262 Art of Classical Greece [cross-listed in ART]
CLAR 375 The Archaeology of Cult: The Material Culture of Greek Religion
CLAR 464 Greek Architecture
CLAR 465 Architecture of Etruria and Rome [cross-listed in ART]
CLAR 475 Rome and the Western Provinces
CLAR 488 The Archaeology of the Near East in the Iron Age
RELI 110 The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period [cross-listed in CLAR, JWST]

Topical Courses (choose one):

ANTH 143 Human Evolution and Adaptation
ANTH 252 Prehistoric Foods
ANTH 411 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
ANTH 413 Archaeobotany Lab Methods
ANTH 414 Laboratory Methods: Human Osteology
ANTH 415 Zooarchaeology
ANTH 416 Bioarchaeology
ANTH 417 Laboratory Methods: Lithic Seminar
ANTH 418 Laboratory Methods: Ceramic Analysis
ANTH 452 The Past in the Present
ANTH 455 Ethnohistory [cross-listed in FOLK]
ANTH 456 Archaeology and Ethnography of Small-Scale Societies
ANTH 458 Archaeology of Sex and Gender [cross-listed in WMST]
ANTH 460 Historical Ecology [cross-listed in ENST]
CLAR 050 First Year Seminar: Art in the Ancient City [first-year students only]
RELI 512 Ancient Synagogues [cross-listed in CLAR, JWST]