Learning Archaeology

A Problem-Based Approach
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-39063-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Learning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises.

This book brings together case studies drawn from real archaeological research so students can understand (and wrestle with) how archaeology is practiced, the kinds of questions that can be addressed with archaeological data (and their limits), and the often contested place of the discipline in the modern world. Experts working across the globe and on a variety of topics have written chapters addressing critical archaeological issues or questions using data and examples from their own research projects. Several chapters are co-authored by experienced practitioners working outside of the academy in archaeology and heritage-related fields, including Tribal or First Nations members. Importantly, each author or group of authors situates their archaeological problem within the social and political context of their practice. With ethical and socio-political considerations woven through each chapter, the book is structured into three sections—Excavation, Analytical Methods, and Archaeology in the Contemporary World—and provides both a comprehensive view of archaeological method and an understanding of the role that archaeological knowledge has in contemporary society.

Learning Archaeology is for undergraduate archaeology students and suitable for use in introductory courses in archaeology.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patton, A. Katherine

Macdonald, Danielle A.

Chazan, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Preface for Instructors; Chapter 1: Learning Archaeology: Introduction to the Book; Part 1: Excavation: Chapter 2: Laying out the Groundwork: The Excavations at Ali Kosh, Iran; Chapter 3: Uncovering Home: Excavations at Kharaneh IV, Jordan; Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Built Environment: Space Syntax Analysis; Chapter 5: Passamaquoddy Archaeology at WWII Prisoner of War Camp in Maine; Part 2: Analytical Methods: Chapter 6: Ts’msyen Fisheries Resource Management through Archaeology; Chapter 7: Interpreting the Stone Tools and Animal Bones from the Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel; Chapter 8: Rice or Nuts? Exploring Food Strategies of the Early Neolithic Communities in the Lower Yangtze Region Through Archaeobotanical Analysis; Chapter 9: Craft Specialization: An Indication of Early Complex Societies; Chapter 10: Using Geoarchaeology to Investigate Socio-Environmental Processes at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete, Greece; Chapter 11: Habitual Physical Activities of Ancestral KhoeSan Herders and Foragers in Holocene Southern Africa; Chapter 12: Shale Personal Ornaments from the Mesolithic Site of Star Carr (UK); Experimental Microwear and Biographical Approaches; Part 3: Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Chapter 13: The Materiality of Black Memory; Chapter 14: Learning Archaeology through Graffiti; Chapter 15: Reading Sherds: Pottery-Making and Archaeology from a Wandat Perspective; Glossary; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

A. Katherine Patton is Associate Professor, teaching stream in the Anthropology Department at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Danielle A. Macdonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Michael Chazan is a Professor in the Departments of Earth Science and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.