This course is an advanced undergraduate seminar covering the history of scientific archaeological exploration, theoretical paradigms and current trends in archaeology. This course will cover the major movements within archaeological theory: descriptive-classificatory, processual and post-processual archaeology, as well as important intellectual developments from other disciplines which influenced archaeological thought (e.g., Marxism, feminism, structuralism, etc.). The purpose of this historically-oriented approach to data analysis and interpretation is to provide the students with an understanding of the context in which archaeological theory has developed and the value of the insights that each of these approaches gives to modern researchers working in the field. Such an understanding is basic to any critique of contemporary archaeology and to the training of competent field archaeologists.