Learning Archaeology (eBook, PDF)

A Problem-Based Approach
Redaktion: Patton, A. Katherine; Chazan, Michael; Macdonald, Danielle A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040350904
• Artikelnr.: 75561037

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Wädat Perspective
Glossary
Index.