ANTH 463 - Seminar in Archeology: Art and Image in Ice Age Europe

3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course surveys the corpus of Upper Paleolithic art in terms of its geographic distribution, subject matter, techniques of production, context and dating. Interpretive frameworks from anthropology and art history are employed to explore the possible meanings of the expressive culture that was recorded on cave walls, in rock shelters and on portable artifacts by late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers.

Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 10.
Ms. Grimm

Credits: 3 hours