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### Spring, 2021

  [### Anthropology 1150: Ancient Landscapes

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81964) 

 

 Archaeology has focused traditionally on excavations of settlement sites. However, no settlement existed as an island; ancient peoples moved within a larger environment which constrained their actions while it was simultaneously transformed by them. This course investigates... 

 

   [### Anthropology 2220: Archaeology of Ancient Cities

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81981) 

 

 This seminar delves into the world’s earliest cities: their origins, their operations, and their collapses. It considers how we define this term, and why every settlement doesn’t grow into a city. The course will investigate the earliest experiments with settlement... 

 

  



### Fall, 2021

  [### Gen Ed 1105: Can We Know Our Past?

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/74193) 

 

 What happened in the past, and if and how we should remember it, is hotly contested. Even though today we take great pains to document every major event that occurs, more than 99% of human history is not written down. How then can we determine with any certainty what people... 

 

  



### Spring, 2020

  [### Anthropology 2020: GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

 

 This course provides a basic understanding of how remote sensing data (satellite imagery and aerial photographs), excavation data (photos, plans and measurements) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to visualize and analyze archaeological data. Students will... 

 

   [### Anthro 2064: Archaeology of Mesopotamia

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/65667) 

 

 A survey of current issues in the archaeology and history of ancient Mesopotamia (today within the states of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran). The course focus will be on urban origins, the nature of urban societies in the Bronze Age, and the expansion and impact of empires in... 

 

  



### Spring, 2012

  [### Ancient Near East 115r: Ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeology and Texts

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://my.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-11874) 

 

 Ancient Mesopotamia was the world’s first literate urban civilization. This class will examine the origins and evolution of cities, temples, and government from two complimentary perspectives: the archaeological record and cuneiform inscriptions in translation. Activities... 

 

  



  [### Anthropology 2065: Complex Societies of Northern Mesopotamia 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

 

 This seminar reviews complex societies in northern Mesopotamia (northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey) from the Late Chalcolithic to the Iron Age (ca. 4200-600 BC). The focus will be on recent archaeological research on issues of broad interest to... 

 

   [### Anthropology 1045: Ancient Settlement Systems

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 Basic archaeological research increasingly includes approaches to spatial patterning in human societies, including the structure of settlements, the regional distribution of populations, and their relationships to their landscapes. This seminar will consider how variation in... 

 

  



### Spring, 2009

  [### Anthropology 1155: Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2009 

 

 The world’s first cities emerged in Mesopotamia and were the defining characteristic of ancient civilizations in what is today Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They were inhabited by large populations, powerful kings, and the gods themselves. The course will consider the origins... 

 

  



### Fall, 2009

  [### Anthropology 1010: Introduction to Archaeology 

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2009 

 

 A comprehensive introduction to the practice of archaeology and major themes from our human past: How do archaeologists know where to dig? How do we analyze and understand what we find? What do we know about the origins of the human species, agriculture, cities, and...