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Tag Archives: Tara Carter
Of skeletons, pottery and Indiana Jones
I once spent a year studying at Israel’s Hebrew University, where I took a spectacularly boring course in archaeology. Indeed it took some effort to make archaeology boring in that setting, surrounded as we were by monuments and ruins going … Continue reading
New UCLA and UCSD classes start March 28
Spring quarter is almost upon us, and the new roster of course podcasts is up at UCLA and UC San Diego. A few of my favorite professors slated to teach during the upcoming term. Archaeologist Tara Carter, who presented UCSD’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Courses, Five-star professors, Political Science
Tagged Mark Kleiman, Tara Carter, Thad Kousser, UCLA, UCSD
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A great anthropology class returns
If you missed UCSD anthropologist Tara Carter’s great fall 2009 class Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (audio), you’re still in luck. University of California, San Diego removes most of its course podcasts at the end of each academic term, … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Anthropology, Courses, Five-star professors
Tagged Tara Carter, UCSD
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Reading Homer as an anthropologist
What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primary text to help explain an ancient society? That’s what archaeologist Tara Carter does in lecture 21 and lecture 22 … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Anthropology, Archaeology, Courses, Five-star professors, History, Literature
Tagged Iliad, Mycenaen Greece, Tara Carter, Trojan War, UC San Diego
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Why we stopped foraging and started farming
The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars argue about why it happened, and propose three main conflicting theories. These theories, and the difficulties in domesticating plants and animals are the subjects of … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural revolution, Tara Carter, UCSD
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Two great new anthropology classes
MMW1 Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed), Tara Carter, UC San Diego. UCSD is presenting three different versions of this course, but Carter’s is my hands-down favorite. She relates the story of hominid evolution and the birth of social … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Anthropology, Archaeology, Courses, Five-star professors
Tagged Robert Boyd, Tara Carter, UCLA, UCSD
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