Archaeozoology - Wattenmaker Laboratory training in the techniques and methods used in the analysis of animal bone recovered from archaeological sites. Topics include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zoo archaeological materials in the reconstruction of economic and social systems. This course offers an introduction to ethnohistory, considers various sources and methods for conducting ethnohistorical research, and requires a practical application of these to an historical case study in Albemarle County. This course offers an in-depth study of the life history and its use as a sociocultural document, and of oral history methodology. Practical experience will be gained in conducting interviews and writing life histories.
Special attention is given to the significance of the Jeffersonian buildings at UVa.
ARTH 209 Sacred Sites Examines the art and architecture of ten religious sites around the world focusing on the ritual, culture, history as well as the artistic characteristics of each site. An introduction to the history, theory and field techniques of Classical Archaeology. Major sites of the Bronze Age as well as Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries are used to illustrate important themes in Greek and Roman culture and the nature of archaeological data. American Sculpture - Stein Topical approach to American sculpture, historical in its organization to most recent. Attention will focus on artists and the process of making and on the audiences for whom this work has been made, how it functions to give shape and form to values and ideas and feelings, to celebrate and commemorate and at times to protest, how sculpture works as an independent system of three-dimensional forms and how it relates to its specific site.