Tu, 9/3: Course Overview
Class: Review syllabus (Google Docs) & course overview
- Student questionnaire (Google Form)
- Exercise: 1 object, 5 questions
- Stone pestle (from a mortar & pestle, Yucatán, Mexico)
- Loom tool (wooden shed stick & shuttle)
- Spindle whorl & wool yarn (El Brujo, Peru)
- Replica of an undecorated Roman lamp (Met collection)
- Replica of a Nasca killer whale jar & museum example (AMNH)
- Fragment of glazed pottery with a porcelain body/clay (more about clay!)
- Projectile points (obsidian study, 2020)
Th, 9/5: What do Archaeologists Really Do?
Due: Reading & Discussion Questions (not collected!)
- What do Archaeologists Do? (Nelson & Gonzalez 2023)
- Choose one additional archaeology article from Sapiens (there are 335!)
- Please consider these questions for your chosen article (not collected)
- What was the research question (or research goal)?
- What data sets were analyzed? (e.g. pottery, soil, historical documents)
- Were you able to find out anything about the authors? For example, are they specialists in a particular sub-field? (e.g. bioarchaeology)
- What types of methods/analyses did they use? (e.g. high tech? Low tech?)
- Were there any collaborative or interdisciplinary components mentioned?
- What were their conclusions?
- What did you find to be most exciting, interesting, confusing, etc.?
- Were there any themes or discussions that overlapped with the Nelson and Gonzalez article?
- Any questions you have?
- Please consider these questions for your chosen article (not collected)
Class: Review logistics (syllabus) & discuss Reading Questions (not collected!)