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Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Associate Professor A Sagona.
Prerequisite: Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.
Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.
Objectives:
Students on completion of the subject should have acquired a knowledge of the prehistoric cultures of the Old World and Australia; have developed a knowledge of archaeological methods to study processes of cultural change and interaction.
Content:
The archaeology of prehistoric cultures from the emergence of hunter-gatherer societies to the earliest sedentary communities. Chronologically the subject covers the period from about 4 million years ago to 4000 B. C.
Assessment:
3,000 words of written work (50 per cent) and a 2-hour examination or equivalent (50 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 20)
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