Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Antropoloji'de Bilim
	English	Science in Anthropology
Course Code	ANT 504E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gonca Dardeniz Arıkan Gonca Dardeniz Arıkan
Course Objectives		1. To illustrate the application of methods from natural sciences to anthropological issues, 2. To instruct how the results from natural sciences may be interpreted, 3. To assess the collaborative research between social and natural sciences.
Course Description		This course focuses on; Archaeology and Science, The Birth of Modern Archaeology, Archaeological Record, Field Archaeology, The Classification of Finds, The Analyses of Finds, Relative Dating, Absolute Dating, Bioarchaeology, Environment and Adaptation, Understanding the Cultural Change, Past Cultural Systems, Villages, and Urbanization.
Course Outcomes		M.Sc. students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects 1. The applicaiton of natural sciences in anthropology, 2. Archaeometric methods, 3. Statistical applications, 4. Answering anthropological questions from natural science perspective, 5. The use of natural sciences fort he purposes of social sciences,
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		None
Other		None
Textbook		Feinman, G. M. and Price, D. T. 2007. Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook. Springer.
Other References		Baker, J. 2019. Technology of the Ancient Near East. From the Neolithic to the Early Roman Period. London, New York: Routledge. Banning, E. B. 2002. The Archaeologist’s Laboratory The Analysis of Archaeological Data. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Miller, H. M-L. 2007. Archaeological Approaches to Technology. Elsevier. Price, T. D. and, Burton, J. H. 2011. An introduction to Archaeological Chemistry, Springer New York, London Weiner, S. 2010. Microarchaeology, Beyond the Visible Archaeological Record, Cambridge University Press.

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