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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.

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Author:   Lara Homsey-Messer ,  Tracy S. Michaud ,  Angela Lockard Reed ,  Victoria Bobo
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789203493

ISBN 10:   178920349
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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Lara Homsey-Messer is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Coordinator of Applied Archaeology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching philosophy and experience centers on service learning and public education. She currently serves on the Public Education Committee of the Society for American Archaeology and the editorial board of Archaeology magazine.

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