ANTH 402 Space, Place, and People: The Archaeology of Landscapes

This course considers landscapes as “built environments,” created from human transformations of natural environments into cultural spaces and places. These human modifications include roads and paths, monuments, walls, agricultural fields, terraces, gardens, and aqueducts, among many others. What can landscape transformations reveal about ritual practice, land management, social organization, and everyday life? Ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and global archaeological case studies will be investigated to answer these questions.