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2006-2007 Workshops

Archaeology

Coordinators

Faculty:

  • Ian Hodder (Cultural and Social Anthropology / Archaeology Center).

Graduate Students:

Description

Human beings and their near ancestors have roamed this planet for something like five million years, but we only have written records for the past five thousand years. Archaeology is therefore our only source of evidence for the first 99.9% of human history. Even where we have written texts, they only tell us about certain social groups—usually rich, powerful, and male. Our only direct source of information about the rest of human experience is archaeology. This workshop will bring together people working on archaeological problems in different departments, with two goals: 1) synthesizing different approaches to archaeology in ways that have never been done before; and 2) redefining the relationships between prehistorical archaeology and historical archaeology, or the archaeology of eras for which there is also a written record.

Schedule