ANTH 1557 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MONGOLIA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of key prehistoric and early historic developments that occurred in Northern Eurasia within the territories formerly controlled by the Soviet Union. The aim of the course is not to provide an exhaustive culture history of this vast region but instead to focus on several themes that are important both regionally and within world prehistory. This will include the early peopling of Eurasia, early evidence of animal and plant domestication in the Neolithic, the emergence of Indo-European languages, innovations in metallurgy and the rise of complex societies in the Bronze and Iron Age periods, and the impact of early nomadic sates and empires. The course will cover a vast period, stretching from the Paleolithic to the Mongol Empire of the 13th century AD. The primary focus of the course will be on evaluating the main lines of archaeological evidence in order to interpret and understand key cultural, economic, technological and ideological developments noted above. The course also will examine the substantial role that the discipline of archaeology and interpretations of the past played within larger social and political discourse during the Soviet Period and since its collapse in 1991. This course will appeal to students interested in comparative studies of Old World archaeology as well as cultural and historical studies of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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