Description
Book Synopsis This unique workbook provides the opportunity for students to complete a variety of labs using items found on hand. It is perfectly suited for teaching beyond the traditional classroom, in remote learning environments and with large class sizes.
From creating complex stratigraphy with piles of clothes, to illustrating optimal forging theory with nothing more than a handful of coins, as well as activities based on writing, drawing, and provided cutout sheets, there are many ways to use this book for online 'at home' lab classes.
Today, many general-education archaeology courses are large, lecture-style class formats that present a challenge to providing students, particularly non-majors, with opportunities to learn experientially. This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lectures, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.
Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Module 1: Frameworks for Exploring Anthropological Archaeology
Chapter 1. The Scientific Method (TSM) Cube
Chapter 2. Cultural Bingo
Chapter 3. Eclectic Challenge
Chapter 4. A Symbol Worth a Thousand Words
Chapter 5. Candle Symbolism
Module 2: Attributing Meaning to Artifacts and Formation of the Archaeological Record
Chapter 6. Archaeological Chaos
Chapter 7. Name That Thingamajig
Chapter 8. Button Classification
Chapter 9. The (Site) Matrix
Chapter 10. Body Mapping
Module 3: Frameworks for Measuring Time
Chapter 11. Human Stratigraphy
Chapter 12. Time Lines
Chapter 13. Childhood Battleship Curves
Chapter 14. Stirrup Bottle Seriation
Chapter 15. Tree-Ring Matching
Chapter 16. “Smarties” Metric Dating
Module 4: Exploring Archaeological Specialties
Chapter 17. Flaky Archaeology: Lithic Analysis
Chapter 18. Pots and People: Ceramic Analysis
Chapter 19. What’s for Dinner? Faunal Analysis
Chapter 20. What’s for Dinner? Botanical Analysis
Chapter 21. “Bone”-afide Archaeology: Mortuary Analysis
Module 5: Interpretation and Explanation in Archaeology
Chapter 22. Campus Garbology: Processual Archaeology
Chapter 23. Bringing Home the Bacon: Post-processual Archaeology
Chapter 24. Lend Me Your Hand: Post-processual Archaeology
Chapter 25. Optimally Foraged Money: Behavioral Ecology
Chapter 26. Tree of Life: Human Ecology
Chapter 27. Can You Spare a Penny? Economic Anthropology
Chapter 28. Can You Dough It? Linguistic Anthropology
Module 6: Archaeological Ethics and Stewardship
Chapter 29. Draw an Archaeologist Test
Chapter 30. Archaeopolitics: Who Owns the Past?
Chapter 31. Common Ground: Glacial Archaeology, Ethics, and Climate Change
Chapter 32. To List or Not to List…?
Chapter 33. The Ethical Archaeologist
Index
