Archaeology of Chiefdoms

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 2. Examination of chiefdom societies in anthropological record, with readings focused on theory and data from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature. Illustration of how people in ranked non-state societies created remarkably rich cultures over entire globe beginning several millennia ago in both Old World and Americas. P/NP or Letter grading.