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Buried Cities and Lost Tribes is a lower division course being offered during the spring semester of 2024 at Binghamton University. The course instructor is Randall H. McGuire (home page). You can contact him at rmcguire@binghamton.edu. The variations and difference in cultures that we see around the world today are the result of a very long history of separate developments and of global interdependencies. We write this history in the present and different cultural groups, nations, and peoples have created histories as part of their efforts to define themselves in the modern world. Buried Cities and Lost Tribes examines how archaeologists study this past, the prehistoric and ancient history of the world, and how people create these histories to serve their own interests in the present. The course will accomplish this by examining some of the great archaeological sites of the world, such as: King Tut's Tomb, Zimbabwe, Mesa Verde, Olduvai Gorge, Pompeii, Nazca, the pyramids of Giza, and Ankor Wat.
This is a lecture course with discussion sections that relies heavily on slides, movies, and guest lecturers to convey first-hand excitement and knowledge about materials being presented. Evaluations are based on three exams, and five short written assignments.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the unique and enduring relationship that the Onundagaonoga (Onondaga) and On?yote’a•ka (Oneida) peoples have and continue to have with the land that Binghamton University occupies, and their rightful ownership of this land. We reject the colonial “doctrine of discovery” that erases the original inhabitants of this land.
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SECTION
INFORMATION
- List of Sections and TAs
- Assignment 1 - The Archaeologist in Fiction (with a list of suggested works of fiction)
- Assignment 2 - Use Wear
- Assignment 3- Essay Question Rewrite
- Assignment 4 - Ceramics
Laboratory - Done in Section Meeting
- Assignment 5 -
Writing
EXAM INFORMATION
For comments or more information contact Randall McGuire mailto:rmcguire@binghamton.edu