Definition; the nature and aims of Archaeology; the speculative phase; digging Pompei, past and present; evolution, Darwins Great Idea; categories of Archaeological evidence, plant, animal- and human; dating- methods and chronology, relative dating methods, absolute dating methods ; brief overview on world civilizations – Egyptian, Greek, Mayan, Indus Valley, Mesopotamian and Chinese; Archaeology in action, case study on origins of rice farming in Southeast Asia; Archaeology and the public, Archaeological Ethics, the uses of the past, conservation and destruction, presentation of the past.
Texts:
1. C. Renfrew and P. Bahn, Archaeology, Thames and Hudson, London,2008.
2. A. Toynbee, A Study of History, Thames and Hudson, London,1988.
References:
1. C. Gamble, Archaeology: the basics, Routledge, New York, 2004.
2. C.J.Whithrow, Time in History: views of time from Prehistory to the present day, O.U.P, Oxford, 1988.
