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ARCO3014: Social Archaeology: Everyday Worlds
2025 unit information
Humans are social beings. Archaeology provides an important way of understanding social lives, relationships, identities, and communities past and present. Past societies have been arranged according to nearly endless forms of everyday habit, religious belief, political order, family life, and material relationships. Archaeologists study the materiality of past lives to understand the ways that societies are put together, how they function, and how they change through time. Social archaeology is also about understanding the ways that archaeological knowledge can be applied to various problems in the present and foreseeable future.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Archaeology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Archaeology, or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Archaeology and 6 credit points at 2000 level in HSTY, ANHS, ANTH, or ARHT) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Students should have a basic knowledge of archaeological method and theory |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Develop an understanding of the varieties of ways that archaeologists understand social life in the past and what these interpretations mean for the present.
- LO2. Identify prominent social themes relating to substantive research questions that can be addressed using archaeological data.
- LO3. Be able to express complex ideas about social theory applications in archaeology in a sophisticated and clear way.
- LO4. Appreciate the diversity of past human lives, and articulate the ways that diversity affects understandings of the present as well as possible futures.
- LO5. Apply the broad conceptual themes of the class to a specific geographical and temporal area of the student’schoosing.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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