Down Ancient Trails: Courses
Down Ancient Trails: One-Year Online Certificate Course in South Asian Prehistory
(Robert Bruce Foote Memorial Series:4)
Immerse yourselve in a year-long introductory online course on South Asian Prehistory. Attend a hands-on, in-person optional module on Experimental Archaeology!
We present here a new venture in the Down Ancient Trails series, where you get to learn the basics of prehistoric archaeolgy and gain a perspective on past cultures, fascinating sites and amazing personalities. Join our in-house prehistorians and visiting scholars sharing their views on prehistory, participate in assignments, team-work, activities and more, and gain an appreciation of the earliest prehistoric populations of South Asia. We encourage interdisciplinary participants. This is a basic introductory course (level 1) on South Asian prehistory
Applications are now closed
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Dates: Fridays: January to December 2022 :
66 hours (44 days): 5.30-7.00 pm (IST), Fridays
Last date for registration: 30th November, 2021
Selected candidates will informed after: 10th December, 2021
Last date for payment: 20th December, 2021
Class begins: 21st January, 2022
Course Contents: Introduction to South Asian prehistory
•Perspectives: Conceptualising prehistory through time: Views from South Asia
•Methodologies: Explore, Excavate, Experiment & Interpret: Join us from the field to the lab
•Ethnoarchaeology: Analogies and more..
•Human Niches: Experience past environments
•Beyond Bones: Braided streams of human evolution
•Things and Thoughts: From material culture to past behaviour
•Interfaces: Cultures across space and time
•Beyond colours: Explore multiple perspectives on rock art
•Conserving the past: Heritage Management and Public Outreach
•Guest Panel discussion
•Convocation
Additional Optional 7-day workshop on Experimental Archaeology
•Open only to those who register for the course, but remains an optional module
•In-person workshop at the SCHE campus, Chennai
•Introduction to theoretical concepts in experimental archaeology
•Experimental archaeological approaches in the manufacture of stone and bone tools, pottery, basketry and more… with demonstrations and practicals
Information
The course comprises a total of 44 lectures (66 hours) which will be delivered by SCHE researchers and by invited guest lecturers.
The course comprises lectures, assignments, team-work and discussions with pre-circulated reading lists and on-line resources
Participants will be given certificates for successful completion of the course based on attendance, assignment completion, team-work, and class participation in discussion and activities.
Important Dates
The course will begin on: 21st January, 2022
Dates for the Experimental Archaeology Workshop: May 2022
The online course and the Experimental Archaeology workshop will run only if a minimum of 20 participants register
To contact us: Email: sharmaheritage@gmail.com
