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Please note that this is reproduced from the UCSD Anthropology Department Website:
UCSD’s Anthropological Archaeology Program offers a broad approach to the study of the archaeology of complex societies. By taking a worldwide view of the rise, maintenance, and collapse of ancient complex social organizations, it aims to present a theoretically integrated curriculum in the fields of archaeology and prehistory. Geographical interests of the current faculty include the Middle East, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America. Theoretical foci include the origins of the state, the organization of exchange, the impacts of long-distance interaction, diasporas and colonization, and Biblical archaeology.
The undergraduate program in anthropological archaeology includes comparative introductory courses and more advanced theoretical and topical courses in areas of expertise, field schools in Jordan and Peru, and archaeologically oriented study abroad programs in Egypt, Mexico, and Central America. Undergraduate students also may gain research experience working in UCSD laboratories or at the Museum of Man.
The graduate concentration in anthropological archaeology is aimed at students committed to carrying out fieldwork. New archaeological laboratory facilities at UCSD provide graduate students with lab space, offices, study collections, library, computer facilities, and other research tools. The Ph.D. program in anthropological archaeology consists of three phases. During the first two years, graduate students take four core-courses focusing on archaeological theory, biological anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. At this time students also begin to conduct original research, write an M.A. paper, and take additional courses in their area of specialty. After earning the M.A., graduate students take a variety of specialty courses in anthropological archaeology and related scientific and humanistic disciplines designed to prepare them for research. They also write detailed dissertation proposals. This second phase ends in year three or four with advancement to candidacy. The third and final stage incorporates original field and laboratory research and writing the dissertation. Recent Ph.D.s, current graduate students, and faculty conduct fieldwork in Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, India, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Peru, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Please note, the program does not support the study of ancient California.
