In addition to the program’s four core courses, starred (*) courses in the list below represent possible choices for the six archaeology-specific elective courses required by the archaeology major.
The other (unstarred) courses could count toward the three additional courses required by the major, which are pertinent to an individual student’s particular archaeological concentration.
Other courses not included on this list could potentially be counted toward the latter category (e.g., ancient language classes, graduate courses, courses concerning other regions). All course selections should be made in consultation with an adviser from the archaeology program.
Anthropology
070.103 (H,S,W) Africa and the Museum
Guyer 3 credits
* 070.132 (H,S,W) Invitation to Anthropology
Staff 3 credits
070.319 (H,S) The Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
Guyer 3 credits
070.378 (H,S) Cultural Property and Politics in Latin America
Poole 3 credits
Biology
020.365 (N) Introduction to the Human Skeleton
Ruff 3 credits
020.379 01 (N) Evolution
Norris 3 credits
Behavioral Biology
* AS 290.101 Human Origins
P. Holland
Classics
040.102 (H) Jews, Greeks and Others in Ancient Israel: Historical and Archaeological Aspects
Staff 3 credits
* 040.140 (H) Gender and Sexuality in Early Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Anderson 3 credits
040.111 (H) Greek Civilization
Staff 3 credits
040.112 (H) Roman Civilization
Staff 3 credits
* 040.137 (H W) Archaeology at the Crossroads: The Ancient Eastern Mediterranean through Objects in the JHU Archaeological Museum
Anderson 3 credits
* 040.218 (H) Celebration and Performance in the Early Aegean
Anderson 3 credits
* 040.221 (H) The Archaeology of Early Greece
Anderson 3 credits
* 040.359 (H) Making Identities: How Archaeology Constructs People in the Past and Present
Anderson 3 credits
* 010.430 (H) History of Roman Art and Architecture
Tucci 3 credits
Graduate courses that may be taken with permission of the instructor
040.609 (H) Sexuality in Egyptian and Roman Art
Bryan 3 credits
040.648 (H) Homeric Archaeology
Anderson 3 credits
040.680 (H) Roman Sculpture in the Walters Art Museum
Staff 3 credits
010.718 (H) Art and Architecture in the Augustan Age
Tucci 3 credits
010.719 (H) Art and Architecture under the Flavian Dynasty
Tucci 3 credits
Geography and Environmental Engineering
570.317 (N) Paleoecology
Brush 3 credits
570.406 (H,S,W) Environmental History
Schoenberger 3 credits
570.423 (N) Principles of Geomorphology
Wilcock 4 credits
150.107 (S) Introduction to Geography
Schoenberger 3 credits
570.205 (N) Ecology
Brush 3 credits
570.328 (N) Geography and Ecology of Plants
Brush 3 credits
570.404 (H, S) Political Ecology
Schoenberger 3 credits
History
100.470 (H,S) Monuments and Memory in Asian History
Meyer-Fong 3 credits
100.101 (H,S,W) History of Occidental Civilization: The Ancient World
Staff 3 credits
100.121-122 (H,S) History of Africa
Berry, Larson 3 credits
100.208 (H,S) China: Neolithic to Song
Meyer-Fong 3 credits
History of Art
* 010.105 (H) Ancient Art of the Americas
DeLeonardis 3 credits
* 010.317 (H) Space & Experience in Rome’s Provinces During the 2nd Century CE
Miranda 3 credits
* 010.334 (H) Problems in Ancient American Art
DeLeonardis 3 credits
* 010.336 (H) Hellenistic Art
Tucci 3 credits
* 010.355 (H) Art and Religion in the Roman World
Tucci 3 credits
* 010.365 (H) Ancient Andean Art
DeLeonardis 3 credits
* 010.370 (H) Art of Ancient Peru
DeLeonardis 3 credits
*010.378 (H) Roman Historical Art
3 credits
*010.398 (H) Tombs for the Living
DeLeonardis 3 credits
* 010.407 (H) Ancient Americas Metallurgy
DeLeonardis 3 credits
* 010.423 (H) Roman Sculpture
Tucci 3 credits
* 010.430 (H) History of Roman Art and Architecture
Tucci 3 credits
* 010.315 Art of the Assyrian Empire, 1000-600 BCE
Feldman 3 credits
* 010.364 Babylon: Myth and Reality
Feldman 3 credits
* 010.421 Creating Sacred Space in the Ancient and Medieval World
Feldman 3 credits
Near Eastern Studies
* 130.101 (H) Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Schwartz 3 credits
* 130.102 (H,S) From Neanderthals to the Neolithic
S. McCarter 3 credits
130.106 (H W) Freshman Seminar: Ancient Empires
Lauinger 3 credits
* 130.110 (H,S) Introduction to Archaeology
Schwartz; S. McCarter 3 credits
* 130.115 (H,S) Introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology
Schwartz 3 credits
* 130.126 (H) Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt
Jasnow 3 credits
* 130.135 (H) Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Bryan 3 credits
* 130.177 (H,S) World Prehistory
Harrower 3 credits
* 130.316 (H) Ancient City of the Future
Schwartz 3 credits
130.304 (H) Ancient Cities
Delnero 3 credits
* 130.328 (H) Ancient Egypt within Africa
Bryan 3 credits
* 130.329 (H) Ancient Egyptian Art
Bryan 3 credits
* 130.334 (H) Museum Study of Objects from the Eton College Myers Collection
Bryan 3 credits
* 130.350 (H) Issues in the Archaeology of the Near East
Schwartz 3 credits
* 130.351 (H,S) The Emergence of Civilization: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Schwartz 3 credits
* 130.353 (H,N) Space Archaeology: An Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing, GIS, and GPS
Harrower 3 credits
* 130.354 (H,S) Archaeological Method and Theory
Harrower 3 credits
* 130.355 (H,N) Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology
Harrower 3 credits
130.510 (H) Senior Thesis I (Fall or Spring Semester)
Schwartz 3 credits
130.511 (H) Senior Thesis II (Fall or Spring Semester)
Prerequisite: 130.510
Schwartz 3 credits
131.800 Independent Readings and Research
(Laboratory seminar on zooarchaeology may be offered by Melinda Zeder, adjunct professor of Near Eastern Studies and curator in the American Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution)
Graduate courses that may be taken with permission of the instructor
131.634-635 (H,S) Seminars in Near Eastern Archaeology
Schwartz 3 credits
131.653 (H, N) Space Archaeology: An Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing, GIS, and GPS.
Harrower 3 credits
131.654 (H,S) Archaeological Method and Theory
Harrower 3 credits
131.655 (H,N) Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology
Harrower 3 credits
133.700-701 (H) Survey of Egyptian Archaeological Sites
Bryan 3 credits
133.720-721 (H) Egyptian Art of the Old through Middle Kingdoms
Bryan 3 credits
133.724-725 (H) Egyptian Art of the Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom
Bryan 3 credits
133.730 (H) Egyptian Art of the Third Intermediate and Late Periods
Bryan 3 credits
133.735 (H) Egyptian Art of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods
Bryan 3 credits
133.750-751 (H) Seminar in Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Bryan 3 credits
Museums and Society
* 389.205 (H) Examining Archaeological Objects
Balachandran 3 credits
* 389.315 (H) Ancient Colors: The Technologies and Meanings of Color in Antiquity
Balachandran 3 credits
389.336 (H) Heritage at Work
Comer 3 credits
389.340 (H) Critical Issues in Art Conservation
Balachandran 3 credits
* 389.342 (H) Objects in Focus: Materials, Techniques, History
Balachandran 3 credits
389.345 (H) Introduction to Museum Practice
Balachandran 3 credits
389.361 (H) Introduction to Material Culture: Farming, Food, and Festivity
Arthur 3 credits
389.440 (H,S) Who Owns Culture?
Rodini 3 credits
History of Science and Technology
140.105 (HS) History of Medicine: Antiquity through the Scientific Revolution
Fissell 3 credits
Earth and Planetary Sciences
270.104 (N) History of the Earth and Its Biota
Hinnov 3 credits
270.205 (EN) Intro to Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Analysis
Staff
270.318 (N) Remote Sensing of the Environment
Del Castillo, Zaitchik 3 credits
270.220 (N) The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Geology
Ferry 3 credits
270.222 (N) Earth Materials
Veblen, Ferry 4 credits 3 hours lecture, 3 hours lab
270.311 (N) Geobiology
Levin 3 credits
270.313 (N) Isotope Geochemistry
Passey 3 credits
270.377 (N) Climates of the Past
Hinnov, Levin, Passey 3 credits
270.405 (N) Modeling the Hydrological Cycle
Zaitchik 3 credits
Program in Latin American Studies
361.130 (H,S,W) Introduction to Latin American Studies
Castro-Klaren 3 credits
Africana Studies
362.103 (H,S) Introduction to the Arts of Africa
Bridges 3 credits
362.220 (H,S,W) Discourses in the African Diaspora
Vinson 2 credits