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The details for the course, Advanced Archaeology 1 (ARCH8018), apply to all of the following topics. Specific descriptions for Syllabus and Proposed Assessment that apply to each topic are detailed below.

Political Economies in Prehistory: Archaeological

Syllabus

Course description:

In a seminar format involving discussion, we will review the history of political economy approaches and their applicability to archaeology. This will involve reading some of the ‘classics,’ outlining a political economy approach, and analyzing variation in political development across the Pacific. Students are expected to do reading in anticipation of the class discussions. Each student will choose a substantive area of interest (not necessarily in the Pacific) and use a political economy approach to analyze your case material.

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