Anthropology | ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND ANALYSES P600 | 0447 |
Pyburn This is a class in professionalism created in response to
a new set of guidelines produced by the Society for American
Archaeology Task Force on Curriculum Development. The purpose of
the course is to bridge the gap between anthropological ideas,
archaeological ethics, and the construction of a research
design. Modern archaeological theory incorporates propositions
about social process; models of identity; reconstructions of
ethnicity, warfare, and historical events; gender studies;
cultural evolution; public awareness, and ethical and legal
issues. Archaeological technique includes radar mapping,
computer simulations, multivariate statistics, magnetometry and
many other high tech tools in addition to traditional practices
such as stratigraphy and seriation. The course will incorporate
problems of both theory and technique, but the focus will be on
understanding the scientific, social, ethical, political,
economic and intellectual ramifica