{"id":122,"date":"2023-09-11T20:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ant-arc135-fa23\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2024-10-14T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:59:31","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/?page_id=122","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Archaeology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>9\/24: Looking back &amp; thinking forward<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Due:<\/strong> Watching &amp; Discussion Questions (not collected!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Webinar: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/archaeology\/reimagining-archaeological-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsettling the Past <\/a>(2hrs) [you can scroll down for the transcript too]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Questions to consider to prepare for class discussion: \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(1) The speakers come from a range of disciplinary and personal backgrounds. Which speaker did you find to be most compelling and why?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(2) What did you think about the grouping of these five speakers with such different perspectives? Did it feel coherent? challenging? confusing? exciting? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(3) What was the biggest &#8220;take-away&#8221; for you after watching the webinar, specifically about archaeological knowledge creation?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(4) Did you see any overlap between the &#8220;Grand Challenges&#8221; in Kintigh et al. (2014) and the topics discussed in the webinar? Other readings? Explain.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(5) Do you have any pressing questions for the speakers? What would they be? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(6) If you could join one of their projects&#8211; research, curation, art&#8211; which one would it be? How would you want to contribute or participate? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Class: <\/strong>Review Discussion Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1113\/2024\/09\/F24_Lecture-7_ArchToday_Unsettling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lecture 7 PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1113\/2024\/09\/Trowels-2.jpg\" alt=\"rainbow strips with 4 trowels\" class=\"wp-image-601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1113\/2024\/09\/Trowels-2.jpg 555w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1113\/2024\/09\/Trowels-2-300x58.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>9\/26: Archaeology Today: <\/strong>History, Theory &amp; Critique<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prep:<\/strong> Reading, Watching &amp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/ckXckL7c1d1VWw858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Weekly Exercise 3 (WE3)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What were the major changes in archaeological thought post-Culture History?  (Processualism\/New Archaeology &amp; Post-Processualism) \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Review <em>Archaeology as History<\/em>, Ch 1 &amp; 2 (or PDFs of previous lectures&#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Videos! [CW: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">brief images of human skeletal materials during excavations<\/span>]\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cpghYMwfPu8?si=OlIOEaTna_2Xghbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Archaeology<\/a> (Simple Archaeology, 2020, 6 minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TNk5MOPYRCk?si=c9boq0iiXXeIXf0Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Post-Processual Archaeology<\/a> (Simple Archaeology, 2020, 5 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KnTBQ17KMR8?si=mFnGO3MTa6lpBAZe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Material Culture in Archaeological Theory<\/a> (Simple Archaeology, 2020, 6 mins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Class: <\/strong>Discuss WE3 &amp; review concepts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1113\/2024\/09\/F24_Lecture-8_ArchToday_Theory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lecture 8 PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/24: Looking back &amp; thinking forward Due: Watching &amp; Discussion Questions (not collected!) Class: Review Discussion Questions 9\/26: Archaeology Today: History, Theory &amp; Critique Prep:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/?page_id=122\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 4: Archaeology Today<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/antarc135-fa24\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}