Schedule and Courses Taught by Jelmer W. Eerkens

Classes taught (and planned to teach) by quarter:

Qaurter & Year UCD Course Number Course Title
Spring 2009
  • ANT 184
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  • Prehistoric Technologies
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    Fall 2008
  • ANT 175
  • ANT 23
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  • Andean Prehistory
  • World Prehistory
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    Spring 2008
  • ANT 217
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  • Quantitative Models in Archaeology
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    Winter 2008
  • ANT 182
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  • Archaeometry
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    Fall 2007
  • ANT 176
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  • California and Great Basin Prehistory
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    Spring 2007
  • ANT 23
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  • World Prehistory
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    Fall 2006
  • ANT 175
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  • Andean Prehistory
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    Spring 2006
  • ANT 24
  • ANT 216
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  • Ancient Crops and People
  • Problems in Archaeological Method
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    Winter 2006
  • ANT 182
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  • Archaeometry
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    Fall 2005
  • ANT 176
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  • California and Great Basin Prehistory
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    Spring 2005
  • ANT 3
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  • Introduction to Archaeology
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    Winter 2005
  • ANT 23
  • ANT 184
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  • World Prehistory
  • Prehistoric Technologies
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    Spring 2004
  • ANT 176
  • ANT 218
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  • California and Great Basin Prehistory
  • Topics in North American Prehistory
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    Winter 2004
  • ANT 3
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  • Introduction to Archaeology
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    Spring 2002
  • ANT 176
  • ANT 184
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  • California and Great Basin Prehistory
  • Prehistoric Technologies
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    Winter 2002
  • ANT 3
  • ANT 172
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  • Introduction to Archaeology
  • Peopling of the Americas
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    Recent Fieldwork by Jelmer W. Eerkens
    (Note: always subject to change!)

    When Where Purpose Goals
    August & September, 2007 CA-CCO-548 Excavation at Marsh Creek Site
  • Stabilize creek banks and remove archaeological deposits threatened by erosion
  • Excavate materials from midden to better understand economy during Windmiller period
  • Remove any human burials that are threatened by erosion
  • Laboratory analysis of materails will begin in October, 2007
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    June-July, 2007 Nasca, Peru Survey & Museum Studies
  • Collect pottery samples fordetailed chemical and mineralogical study of pigments from Early Nasca through Late Intermediate times
  • Survey side quebradas to locate additional prehispanic mines and mining base camps
  • Collect obsidian sample to augment obsidian hydration sample and to conduct additional sourcing
    • December, 2006 Santa Fe, NM School of American Research Advanced Seminar Seminar title: "The Emergence of Leadership: Transitions in Decision Making from Small-Scale to Middle-Range Societies"
    Summer, 2006 Nasca, Peru Participate in Proyecto Nasca Temprano
  • Excavations of Archaic component at site of Upanca
  • Test excavations at La Ballena, a mining base camp in Quebrada Pongo
  • Surface collection of pottery and obsidian samples at target sites for preliminary pigment analysis, luminescence dating, and obsidian hydration
  • Visit Mina Primavera in Ingenio Valley to follow up test excavations at a prehispanic hematite mine and to examine surrounding area.
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