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Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities
This book is intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings, such as in lectures and lab courses. This text can complement an existing traditional text or completely replace a standard text. It can be used for its activities or as a study resource. When we wrote this text, we designed the chapters to be brief, providing concise and to-the-point information.
- Author
- Amanda Wolcott Paskey and AnnMarie Beasley Cisneros
- Publisher
- Cosumnes River College & American River College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 69 sections
- 01: Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Activity 1 - What Is an Archaeologist
- 1.03: Activity 2 - Scientific Method and Article Analysis
- 02: History (up until the 1960s)
- 2.01: Introduction
- 2.02: Activity 1 - Paradigm Shifts Part 1
- 03: History (the 1960s and beyond)
- 3.01: Introduction
- 3.02: Activity 1 - Paradigm Shifts Part 2
- 3.03: Activity 2 - Get a Perspective
- 3.04: Activity 3 - Research of Middle Range- Additional Processual Approaches
- 04: The Archaeological Record and Site Formation Processes
- 4.01: Introduction
- 4.02: Activity 1 - Artifacts... What Are They Good For
- 05: Artifact Preservation
- 5.01: Introduction
- 5.02: Activity 1 - Formation Processes- What Survives
- 06: How to Find Archaeological Sites
- 6.01: Introduction to Finding Archaeological Sites
- 6.02: Activity 1 - Survey Techniques
- 6.03: Activity 2 - Campus Site Survey
- 6.04: Activity 3 - Sampling the Past
- 6.05: Activity 4 - Ground Coverage Survey
- 6.06: Activity 5 - Garbology Survey
- 07: Excavation
- 7.01: Introduction to Excavation
- 7.02: Activity 1 - Excavating the Land of Candy - A Cultural Resource Management Exercise
- 08: Dating Methods Relative and Absolute Dating
- 8.01: Introduction to Dating Methods
- 8.02: Activity 1 - Stratigraphic Dating and the Harris Matrix
- 8.03: Activity 2 - Stylistic and Frequency Seriation
- 8.04: Activity 3 - Pottery Seriation
- 8.05: Activity 4 - Dating Conversions
- 09: Artifact Analysis
- 9.01: Introduction to Artifact Analysis
- 9.02: Activity 1 - Artifact Classification
- 9.03: Activity 2 - Three Classifications
- 10: Reconstructing Environments and Subsistence Patterns
- 10.01: Introduction to Reconstructing Environments and Subsistence Patterns
- 10.02: Activity 1 - Reconstructing Paleoenvironments
- 10.03: Activity 2 - Reconstructing Diet and Subsistence- Comparing Foraging and Farming
- 10.04: Activity 3 - Subsistence Signatures
- 10.05: Site Summary
- 11: Social Archaeology
- 11.01: Introduction to Social Archaeology
- 11.02: Activity 1 - Analyzing Cars- Social Archaeology
- 11.03: Activity 2 - Classroom Garbology
- 11.04: Activity 3 - Garbology of Lancaster California
- 11.05: Activity 4 - Someone Elses Trash
- 12: Bioarchaeology
- 12.01: Introduction to Bioarchaeology
- 12.02: Activity 1 - Bioarchaeology - Burial Practices
- 12.03: Activity 2 - Bioarch in the News
- 13: Archaeological Interpretation and Application of Theory
- 13.01: Introduction to Archaeological Interpretation and Application of Theory
- 13.02: Activity 1 - Studying Patterns in Human Cultural Behavior
- 13.03: Activity 2 - Report on Time Team America- Range Creek
- 13.04: Activity 3 - Excavation and Interpretation of Sites at Huaca de la Luna Peru
- 14: Historical Archaeology
- 14.01: Introduction to Historical Archaeology
- 14.02: Activity 1 - Rewriting History- Jamestown
- 15: New Frontiers in Archaeology
- 15.01: Introduction to New Frontiers in Archaeology
- 15.02: Activity 1 - GlobalXplorer
- 16: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Archaeology
- 16.01: Introduction to Legal and Ethical Considerations in Archaeology
- 16.02: Activity 1 - Ethics in Archaeology- Create Your Own Ethics Statement
- 16.03: Activity 2 - Careers in Archaeology- Options and Opportunities