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Anthropology 306
European Archaeology

Fall, 2008
SAB G90, T 5:30-8:10

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  Instructor: Dr. Bettina Arnold
Office Hours: SAB 229, M 11:00-12:00, T 3:00-4:00 or by appointment.
e-mail: barnold@uwm.edu
Class e-mail reflector: anthro-306@uwm.edu 		 

  Textbook: Milisauskas, Sarunas (ed.) European Prehistory 2002 ed. Springer Verlag.
Reader (Parts I and II): Available on e-Reserve (see attached instructions).		  

 

European Archaeology web sites

arrowArchaeological Resource Guide for Europe
arrowArchNet: WWW Virtual Library-Archaeology -- Europe
arrowBUBL Link: British archaeology - general
arrowGerman Archaeology: [UFG Freiburg]
arrowThe Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropoloical Institute
 

  Course Description:
This course presents a survey of European prehistory through the study of archaeological remains from the Paleolithic period until the Roman conquest. The coverage is selective because of the temporal and geographic variability of Europe. Several significant themes are emphasized and important sites from the various selected regions are discussed, centering primarily on west-central Europe. The distribution of sites in the landscape, evidence for subsistence and production, changes in mortuary ritual through time and the way in which ideology is mapped onto material culture and the built environment are components of the way prehistoric European social evolution is interpreted. The course introduces students to the archaeological evidence for the early development of what eventually become the various nation-states of modern Europe. In the process European cultural evolution is compared to other parts of the Old World, and placed in the context of increasing social complexity worldwide and its implications for the future of our species. Format is lecture/discussion, with slides, films and Web resources.

Tests, Quizzes and Take-Home Exercises:
Undergraduates: Two map quizzes (20%), a midterm exam with take-home essays (30%), a final exam with take-home essays (30%), one paper (5-10 pages) based on supplemental reading (15%), attendance and participation (5%).

Graduate Students: Two map quizzes (20%), midterm and final exams without take-home essays (40%), final paper (15-20 pages) (40%).

Extra Credit: Students may earn up to 3 extra credit points by attending talks sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/ArchLab/AIA/ for schedule of talks), the Anthropology Department's Colloquium series (TBA in class) and the Wisconsin Archaeological Society (see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/ArchLab/ for schedule of talks). 		 

Reading Assignments

Week 1 Introduction: Geographical and Chronological Framework
Milisauskas Ch. 1; Reader 1(1) T. Douglas Price and Gary Feinman 1997 Images of the Past, pp. 444-447 and 487-490. 2nd edition. Mountain View: Mayfield.

Week 2 Brief history of European archaeology
Milisauskas Ch. 2; Reader 2(1) Kevin Greene 1995 Archaeology: An Introduction, pp. 8-36. 3rd edition. London: Batsford.

Week 3 The Upper Paleolithic: The End of the Ice Age
Milisauskas Chs. 3 and 4; Reader 3(1) Chris Scarre 1998. Exploring Prehistoric Europe, Ch. 2 pp. 28-44. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reader 3(2) Price and Feinman pp. 102-105.

arrowModern Human Origins: Highly Visible, Curiously Intangible
arrowSARC-Stone Age Reference Collection
arrowWWW Links to Prehistoric Art in Europe
arrowThe Cave of Lascaux
arrowThe Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
arrowPrehistoric Art of the Pyrenees

Week 4 The Mesolithic: Sedentism, Shellmounds and Social Change
Milisauskas Ch. 5; Reader 4(1) Price and Feinman pp. 146-151.

Week 5 The Neolithic: Transition to Food Production
Milisauskas Ch. 6; Reader 5(1) Price and Feinman pp. 444-449 and 456-459; 5(2) Marek Zvelebil 1998. What's in a name: the Mesolithic, the Neolithic, and social change at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. In Mark Edmonds and Colin Richards (eds) Understanding the Neolithic of Northwestern Europe, pp. 1-36. Glasgow: Cruithne Press.

September 30 In-class Map Quiz!

Week 6 The Neolithic: Megaliths and Landscape Marking
Milisauskas Ch. 7; Reader 6(1) Ian Thorpe 2004 The megalithic world. In Peter Bogucki and Pam J. Crabtree (eds) Ancient Europe: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, Part I, pp. 398-406. New York: Thompson & Gale; 6(2) Price and Feinman pp. 460-463; 6(3) Scarre Chs. 4 and 6.

arrowThe Neolithic Studies Group
arrowBandkeramik village in Vaihingen (Germany).
arrowGardom's Edge Landscape Project

Week 7 The Neolithic: Increasing Social Differentiation
Milisauskas Ch. 8; Reader 7(1) Price and Feinman pp. 450-455; 7(2) Scarre Chs. 7 and 8.

arrowComprehensive guide to European megaliths
arrowDolmens in the Netherlands
arrowMegalithic Mysteries
arrowVirtual Stonehenge

Week 8 The Neolithic/Bronze Age Transition
Reader 8(1) Mark Pearce 2004 The significance of bronze. In Bogucki and Crabtree, pp. 6-11; 8(2) Price and Feinman, pp. 476-479.

October 21 Midterm Exam!

Week 9 The Bronze Age: Technology and Trade
Milisauskas Ch. 9; Reader 9(1) Vajk Szverenényi 2004 The Early and Middle Bronze Ages in Central Europe. In Bogucki and Crabtree, pp. 20-30; 9(2) Anthony Harding 2000 Ch. 6 European Societies in the Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

arrowGreat Orme Mines.
arrowGods and Heroes of the Bronze Age Europe at the Time of Ulysses.

Week 10 The Bronze Age: Social Complexity and Stratification
Milisauskas Ch. 9; Reader 10(1) Andrew Sherratt 1997 (1987) Cups that Cheered. In A. Sherratt 1997 Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe Ch. 15. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 10(2)Timothy Champion et al. 1984 Prehistoric Europe Ch. 7; London: Academic Press.

Week 11 The Bronze Age: Warfare and Defense
Reader 11(1) Robert Chapman 1995 Urbanism in Copper and Bronze Age Iberia? In B. Cunliffe and S. Keay (eds) Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia: From the Copper Age to the Second Century AD, pp. 29-46. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 11(2) Peter Bogucki 2004 Late Bronze Age Urnfields of Central Europe. In Bogucki and Crabtree, pp. 86-91.

Week 12 The Iron Age: New Metal, New Horizons
Milisauskas Ch. 10; Reader 12(1) Scarre Ch. 11; 12(2) Scarre Ch. 12.

arrowSimon James's Ancient Celts Page
arrowButser Ancient Farm - British Replica Farmstead 300 B.C.
arrowGalicia, Viladonga Hillfort Museum - e-CASTREXO (Online journal)
arrowEarly Celts on the Upper Danube - The Heuneburg Museum

Week 13 The Iron Age: Mediterranean Interaction and Reaction
Reader 13(1) Price and Feinman pp. 480-483; 13(2) Peter S.Wells 1995 Trade and Exchange. In Miranda Green (ed.) The Celtic World, pp. 230-243. London and New York: Routledge.

November 25 Undergraduate paper due!

Week 14 The Iron Age: Romans and "Barbarians"
Reader 14(1) Olivier Büchsenschütz 1995 The Celts in France. In M. Green, pp. 552-580; 14(2) Scarre Ch. 13.
In-class Map Quiz!

arrowTeutoburg Forest Battlesite 9 A.D.

Week 15 Celts, Germans and Romans: Europe in Transition
Milisauskas Ch. 11; Reader 15(1) Graham Webster 1995 The Celtic Britons under Rome. In M. Green, pp. 623-635;

Week 16 December 16 5:30-7:30 p.m. Final Exam!!!

December 16 5:30-7:30 PM FINAL EXAM!!!
Graduate Student Paper due!

  Undergraduate Paper Guidelines and Topics

Goals:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to research a topic successfully in depth as demonstrated by locating and citing seminal sources on the chosen topic.
  2. Produce a summary of the work of those scholars whose research and interpretations have contributed significantly to our understanding of the chosen topic.
  3. Provide a critical evaluation of the issues and possible divergent opinions associated with the analysis of the chosen topic, suggesting possible avenues for further investigation.
Topics:

These topics are ONLY suggestions. If you have an idea for a paper topic not listed here, please be sure to e-mail me a paragraph describing it and providing some sources you plan to use well before you begin your research (that is, AT LEAST two weeks before the due date!).
  1. Function(s)/meaning of Upper Paleolithic cave art or mobiliary art
  2. Function(s)/meaning of Neolithic megaliths
  3. Warfare in the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition in Europe
  4. Impact of contact with the Mediterranean on Iron Age societies in Central Europe
  5. Interpretation of ritual sites such as circular enclosures (Neolithic/Bronze Age) or Viereckschanzen (La Tčne period)
  6. Technology and social change (Examples: food production, bronze working, iron working etc.)
  7. Gender, age and/or status configurations as reflected in burials (Example: Deviant burials)
  8. Function(s)/meaning of votive deposits in Europe
  9. Interpretation(s) of bog bodies in Europe
  10. Application of a particular archaeological methodology to some aspect of European prehistory (isotope analysis, metallurgical analysis, radiocarbon dating, experimental archaeology etc.)
Undergraduate and Graduate Paper Format:
  1. Papers must be typed (computer or typewriter) with margins of 1" (no more, no less).

  2. Paginate all pages beginning with Page 2!

  3. Papers must be double-spaced.

  4. Make sure your name is on the paper and that the paper has a title.

  5. Undergraduates: Paper must be 5-10 pages long. You must cite at least 10 sources in constructing your argument. These may be drawn from the Course Reader, but at least 3 must be sources you have tracked down on your own. NONE of these may be Web sources unless the article comes from a reputable database such as JSTOR and is published in a peer-reviewed journal. Use the Bibliographies from class readings as a starting point for your source search. Other places to find sources include Eureka, WorldCat (see UWM Library Web site for links) and the Anthropological Index On-Line (http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/)
    Graduate Students: Paper must be 15-20 pages long. You must cite at least 20 sources, at least 15 of which must be sources you have tracked down yourself and NONE of which may be Web sources unless the article comes from a reputable database such as JSTOR and is published in a peer-reviewed journal. You may cite a maximum of 5 sources from the Course Reader. See data base information above.
  6. When citing sources (whether quoting directly or paraphrasing) within the text, the following rules apply:

    The author's last name (include the first initial only if there are two authors with the same last name cited in the paper) followed by the year of the publication, a colon and the page number(s): (Renfrew 1979: 112-15). (This is the standard procedure in anthropological publications). Quotation marks should be used where appropriate, as in the examples below.

    Ex. #1 Direct quotation: "The moon is made of green cheese" (McDonald 1989:123).
    Ex. #2 Paraphrasing: According to Williams, the moon is made of fried green tomatoes (1988:19-23).

  7. You must include a bibliography with full references at the end of the paper. You may use any of the articles assigned for the class as a template for the bibliography. KEY: Whatever format you choose, BE CONSISTENT!

  8. Good luck! E-mail me at barnold@uwm.edu if you have any questions.

WRITING CENTER INFORMATION: The Writing Center in CURTIN 382 welcomes writers from any discipline, at all skill levels, inexperienced through advanced, freshmen through graduate students. No matter where students are in a task, whether still exploring a reading, brainstorming, drafting or revising, they can benefit from talking to one of our well-qualified and trained tutors. Call 229-4339, make appointments online 24/7: www.writingcenter.uwm.edu, or walk in.

Fall 2008 WRITING CENTER HOURS:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 9:00-6:00 pm
Tuesday, 9:00-4:00 pm
Friday, 9:00-1:00 pm

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: Please read carefully! Cheating and plagiarism are serious offenses and will not be tolerated. Any student who engages in academic misconduct as defined below will receive an F in this course. Student academic misconduct procedures are specified in Chapter UWS 14 and the UWM implementation provisions (Faculty Document 1686 http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Acad_Aff/policy/academicmisconduct.html) as follows:

Academic misconduct is an act in which a student seeks to claim credit for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation, uses unauthorized materials or fabricated data in any academic exercise, forges or falsifies academic documents or records, intentionally impedes or damages the academic work of others, engages in conduct aimed at making false representation of a student's academic performance, or assists other students in any of these acts.

Prohibited conduct includes cheating on an examination; collaborating with others in work to be presented, contrary to the stated rules of the course; submitting a paper or assignment as one's own work when a part or all of the paper or assignment is the work of another; submitting a paper or assignment that contains ideas or research of others without appropriately identifying the sources of those ideas; stealing examinations or course materials; submitting, if contrary to the rules of a course, work previously presented in another course; tampering with the laboratory experiment or computer program of another student; knowingly and intentionally assisting another student in any of the above, including assistance in an arrangement whereby any work, classroom performance, examination or other activity is submitted or performed by a person other than the student under whose name the work is submitted or performed.

  

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