10/22: Absolute & Relative Dating
Due: Reading & (optional) watching
- Archaeology as History, Ch 3
- The Scientific Sorcery of Radiocarbon Dating (Nash 2020, Sapiens)
- (optional) Archaeological Dating: How Does it Work? (2023, 50 minutes)
Class: Discuss article options for Methods Essay & Telling Time
- Lecture 13 PDF
- Handout: Assignment 2: Methods Essay. Students choose a pottery analysis article (from 3 options) to evaluate in an analytical essay (1000 words, 4-5 pages) that will peer-reviewed during class and then turned in as a final version.
- Videos: Dating: The Radiocarbon Way (10 mins) & Archaeological Seriation (2021, 18 mins)
- See Resources for more on dating!
10/24: Alternative Approaches to Time
Due: Watching & Weekly Exercise 6 (WE6) [practice for methods essay]
- Video: Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology Building (Acabado, 2021, 48 mins, UCLA Cotsen Institute)
- Worksheet for class [3 pages]
Optional Readings on Related Topics…
- Indigenous Cultures have Archaeology Too: In Papua New Guinea, Indigenous peoples have been interpreting their ancestral landscapes for generations (Urwin 2020, Sapiens)
- Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines: A system of heritage ownership by the Ifugao people has helped revive Indigenous traditions and even fight the COVID-19 pandemic (Acabado & Martin 2020, Sapiens)
Class: Discussion of WE6