ARTH 504  Structural Archaeology Instructor: Professor C. Lee Striker T 3-5 104 Jaffe Course Description

 
 

The course acquaints its participants with the physical evidence of buildings. It treats the properties of pre-modern building materials, their static and dynamic behavior, and the contexts and reasons for use of different building materials.  It considers the methodologies for the historical interpretation of physical evidence, including the recording, analysis, and presentation of evidence, determining the date and original form of buildings, their sequence of construction, and their subsequent modifications.  It surveys traditional as well as new scientific and technical methods in the field.  Each participant prepares a series of exercises culminating in a formal structural archaeological presentation of a building in the Philadelphia area.  There are no prerequisites.

 
 
 

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