Week 5: Archaeological Evidence

10/1: Locating sites, high & low tech survey

[Mountain Day, NO CLASS- website updated]

Due: Reading & Watching

• Google Earth and Archaeology (Ur 2006)
• Shining Light on Looting: Using Google Earth to Quantify Damage & Raise Public Awareness (Contreras & Brodie 2010)
• Video: Aerial Archaeology @ Home (6 min)
  • Optional: Google Earth article (Herndon et al. 2023), see Resources

Class: Review Site Report Assignment & pick a site

• Handout: Site Report essay
  • Versions of Google Earth? (desktop, web, mobile)
  • Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery explained (2017, 8 mins)
• Class videos (if time)
  • Archaeological Survey (The Archaeologists Laboratory, 21 mins)
  • Indigenous Methods: Catch & Release (Sara González, 3 minutes, 2016)

10/3: Identifying & Excavating Sites [updated]

Due: Watching & Weekly Exercise 4 (WE4) [no Weekly Exercise due]

• Videos: [plus the materials assigned for Tuesday]
  • Into the Field: Archaeology Field School Abroad (PBS, 30 mins)
    • CW: brief imagery/discussion of human remains (14 mins)
  • A Day in the Life @ Jamestown (2021, 12 mins)
  • Harris Matrix (Simple Archaeology, 2021, 4 mins)

Class: Discussion of materials from survey & excavation

• Lecture 9 PDF
• Google Form (posted after class) about site options

• Handout: Assignment 1: Site Report essay & pick sites!
  • Versions of Google Earth? (desktop, web, mobile)
  • Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery explained (2017, 8 mins)

• Video Resources:
  • Archaeological Survey (The Archaeologists Laboratory, 21 mins)
  • Indigenous Methods: Catch & Release (Sara González, 3 minutes, 2016)
  • Stratigraphy (The Archaeologists Laboratory, 28 mins)
  • The Excavation Process: How we Excavate (Cooper’s Ferry site, 3 mins)