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Fall 2019 | ANTH 5269 Section 001: Analysis of Stone Tool Technology (31830)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:55PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 318
- Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The course offers practical lab experience in analyzing archaeological collections of stone tools to learn about human behavior in the past. Students gain experience needed to get a job in the cultural resource management industry.
- Class Description:
- An archaeologist once stated "Love is fickle but stone tools are forever." This course takes this principle to heart in order to teach serious undergraduates and beginning graduate students how archaeologists can learn what it means to be human through the study of our ancestors' stone tools. From a scientific point of view, as the vast majority of human existence has been spent using stone tools as the primary medium for the interaction between humans and the environment, understanding the causes of change in stone tool variation through time is fundamental to understanding the human past. The goals of this course include 1) a comprehensive survey of known stone tool making processes (known as flintknapping), 2) a critical examination of different traditions of studying stone tools among archaeologists around the world, and 3) practical experience with analyzing an entire stone tool collection from an experimental archaeological site in order to reconstruct the behaviors, from procurement of raw stone to the discard of the exhausted tools, which produced the site and its collection. This course also provides students with hands-on experience in the practice of making stone tools for analysis. This is a practical laboratory class: the successful completion of this course will allow you to perform the tasks required of archaeologists currently working in the Cultural Resource Management industry. Space is limited to 20 students. ANTH3001 Introduction to Archaeology is a prerequisite (it may be taken concurrently with instructor permission). Given the quantitative nature of stone tool analysis, students afraid of numbers should avoid the course.
- Grading:
- 50% laboratory reports, 10% discussion participation, 24% four in-class quizzes, and 16% final lab report.
- Exam Format:
- Short answer and multiple choice
- Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
45% Laboratory
& hands-on flintknapping; 5% films
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week Other Workload: 9 laboratory reports of ~4 pages each and one 15-page paper per semester.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31830/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 July 2016
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