ANTH 324: Warfare, Violence, and Sacrifice in Antiquity
ANTH 324-001: Warfare/Viol/Sacrif-Antiquity
(Spring 2019)
03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR
David J. King Hall 2084
Section Information for Spring 2019
Are humans innately “violent”? Were our ancestors “noble savages or savage brutes? Is warfare inevitable? Is there any way to tell? And how might archaeology contribute to the debate?
In this course we will examine the issue of conflict in human societies through archaeological evidence. First, we will develop an anthropological perspective on violence and the human condition by examining theories of warfare and human society. Thereafter we will examine human prehistory, from the rise of raiding, war, sacrifice, cannibalism, and even witchcraft. We will look at associations some scholars have made between warfare and the rise of war dead and battlefields, finishing up by discussing the archaeology of 20th century warfare, to put some of our hypotheses into a more familiar context.
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Credits: 3
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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