Course syllabus
Anthro 200 Understanding the Past Semester 1, 2017
Lecturer:
Professor Thegn Ladefoged (t.ladefoged@auckland.ac.nz)
Office: HSB 716
Office hours: Tuesday 10:00 AM - 11:00AM or by appointment
Phone: (09) 373-7599 ext. 88569
Tutor:
Sarah Bradley (sbra403@aucklanduni.ac.nz)
Office: HSB 525
Office hours: Wednesdays from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM or by appointment
Lectures:
Monday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, 206-220 (Arts 1, Room 220)
Tutorials:
Absolutely, positively, mandatory. One hour per week; see Student Services Online for times.
Assessment:
Reading Quizzes (10% total) Weekly beginning March 13th
Stratigraphy Exercise (10%) DUE Friday 31st of March (Week 4)
Midterm Test (30%) 10th of April, in lecture (Week 6)
Lab Analysis Exercise (10%) DUE Friday 19th of May (Week 9)
Final Exam (40%) TBD
Students will take short READING QUIZZES at the beginning of lectures in weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Each quiz will be a series of questions that will be easily answered if you have done the weekly readings before the lecture. We might grade and discuss the quizzes in class, and students will be marked on their top 8 quizzes (worth 1.25% each) for the semester.
The STRATIGRAPHY EXERCISE will be handed out and discussed in tutorials during week 2. The assignment is due on Friday 31st of March (Week 4) by 5:00PM. Please upload your text to turnitin.com and make a copy of your profile drawing before turning it in at the Arts 1 Reception, in the drop boxes on level 3 (ground floor).
The LAB ANALYSIS EXERCISE will be handed out in tutorials during the week of the 1st of May. Some of the assignment will be completed during tutorials and there will also be a take-home component. Please upload your text to turnitin.com and make a copy of your exercise before turning it in at the Arts 1 Reception on Friday the 19th of May (Week 9) by 5:00PM.
NOTE: If there are medical reasons for an assignment being late you must have a medical certificate. Without a certificate late assignments will be penalized 5% of their worth per day.
The TEST and EXAM are cumulative, and will cover material presented in lectures, readings, and tutorials. The test and exam may consist of essay questions, short answer questions, true and false, and multiple choice questions. Make-up tests will only be administered to students with a valid medical certificate.
Tutorials
Tutorials are held ten times throughout the semester, beginning in the second week of lectures. You must attend ALL TUTORIALS as important information will be presented that you will be tested on and/or will be assessed on. If you cannot come to the tutorials you should not enrol in the course.
Readings
The readings provide additional information and examples that complement the lectures and tutorials. The text for the course is the seventh edition of Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016). Additional readings have been assigned. The text can be purchased at the bookstore, is available as an ebook, and copies are in the short-loan library. The online resources for the book are available at http://goo.gl/WTwvu6. The articles are available via UoA Library E-Journals. It is expected that you will do all of the assigned readings, as you will be tested on this material regardless of whether or not it is covered in the lectures or tutorials.
Lecture, Reading, and Tutorial Schedule
WEEK 1
6 March Course introduction; Why do archaeology? Scientific and pseudo-archaeology.
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Introduction, pp. 12-18.
Tutorial: NO TUTORIALS
WEEK 2
13 March Early theoretical approaches
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapters 1 and 12
Smith, M.E. (2015) “How can archaeologists make better arguments?” The SAA Archaeological Record. September 2015.
Tutorial: Stratigraphy exercise
WEEK 3
20 March Modern archaeology
Reading: Hegmon, M. (2003) “Setting theoretical egos aside: issues and theory in North American Archaeology”. American Antiquity 68(2):213-243. (Available via UoA Library E-Journals).
Kintigh, K. W. et al. (2014) “Grand Challenges for Archaeology”. American Antiquity 79(1):5-24. (Available via UoA Library E-Journals).
Tutorial: Archaeological theory
WEEK 4
27 March The nature of archaeological data; interpreting archaeological data; Ethnoarchaeology and analogy
Readings: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapter 2
Tutorial: Archaeological data
WEEK 5
3 April Excavation and survey
Readings: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapter 3
Tutorial: Survey toys
WEEK 6
10 April MID-TERM TEST
WEEK 7
1 May Dating; Artefact classification and analysis.
Readings: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapters 4 & 8
Allen, M.S. (1996), “Style and function in East Polynesian fish-hooks” Antiquity 70:97-116. (Available via UoA Library E-Journals)
Tutorial: Lab analysis exercise
WEEK 8
8 May Environmental reconstruction; Subsistence and diet.
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapters 6 & 7
Tutorial: Faunal and botanical analysis
WEEK 9
15 May Trade and exchange; Bioarchaeology
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapters 9 & 11
Tutorial: Bioarchaeology
WEEK 10
22 May Social systems and ideology
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapter 5 & 10
Tutorial: Investigating socio-political transformations
WEEK 11
29 May Heritage management
Reading: Renfrew and Bahn (2016), Chapters 13- 15
Tutorial: Heritage management
WEEK 12
5 June NO LECTURE
Tutorial: Exam review
Course summary:
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