ANT 4824

Terrestrial Archaeological Field Methods (download PDF flyer)

M-F 7:00 AM-4:00 PM
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 ANG 6824

Advanced Terrestrial Archaeological Field Methods (download PDF flyer)

M-F 7:00 AM-4:00 PM
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 ANT 2000

Introduction to Anthropology

 T Th  8:30-9:45 AM
location t.b.a.

 ANT 3311

Indians of the Southeast: An Anthropological Perspective

 ANG 5172

Seminar in Historical Archaeology

 W  9:00 - 12:00 AM
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 ANT 4115

Method and Theory in Archaeology (syllabus)

T Th 8:30-9:45 AM
Bldg. 10, Rm. 102

 ANG 4172

Historical Archaeology (syllabus)

T Th 10:00-11:15 AM
Bldg. 10, Rm. 104

ANT 4180L

Laboratory Methods in Archaeology (syllabus)

 ANT 4824

Terrestrial Archaeological Field Methods

M-F 7:00 AM-4:00 PM
June 1 - August 7

 ANG 6824

Advanced Terrestrial Archaeological Field Methods

M-F 7:00 AM-4:00 PM
June 1 - August 7

 ANT 3101

Principles of Archaeology

 T Th  11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Bldg. 11, Rm. 122

 ANG 5172

Seminar in Historical Archaeology

 Th  8:30 - 11:00 AM
Bldg. 89, Rm. 105

 ANG 5173

Historical Research Methods in Archaeology

 ANT 3153

North American Archaeology

 ANT 3317 (now 3311)

Indians of the Southeast: An Anthropological Perspective

 ANG 5990 (now 5154)

Spanish Florida in Anthropological Perspective

 ANT 4115

Method and Theory in Archaeology

 ANT 4172

Historical Archaeology

 ANG 6931

Proseminar in Anthropology: The Colonial World

 ANT 2000

Introduction to Anthropology

 M W F  11:00-11:50 AM
Bldg. 11, Rm. 121

 ANG 5172

Seminar in Historical Archaeology

 W  1:00-4:00 PM
Bldg. 32, Rm. 519

Introduction to subdivision of anthropology and anthropological thought, basic treatment of human evolution, origins of civilization, world archaeology and modern work cultures, stressing the continuities of human nature.

Detailed explanation of the principles and methodology of current archaeology in U.S.; includes a brief history and theoretical orientation development of American archaeology.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe archaeology as a subfield of anthropology, its relationship to other related disciplines.
2. Describe the origins and history of Americanist archaeology, as well as the major theoretical paradigms that have influenced it.
3. Identify and describe the methods and techniques archaeologists employ to locate archaeological sites through survey, remote sensing, and testing.
4. Identify and describe the methods and techniques archaeologists use to conduct excavations and recover archaeological specimens and samples using appropriate record-keeping.
5. Describe and explain the principles of archaeological stratigraphy, and how they relate to site formation processes.
6. Identify and describe the methods and techniques archaeologists use to date finds and develop chronologies, including both relative and absolute dating.
7. Describe and explain the relationship between the dimensions of time, space, and form, and how they relate to archaeological classification and typology.
8. Describe and explain the importance of taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and ethnoarchaeology in relating the modern archaeological record to past human behavior.
9. Identify and describe the methods and techniques employed by zooarchaeologists, archaeobotanists, and bioarchaeologists to study animal, plant, and human remains from archaeological sites.
10. Describe and explain how archaeology contributes to the understanding of different dimensions of past human cultures during both the prehistoric and historic eras, including technology, social and political systems, and belief systems.
11. Identify and describe other important roles for archaeology as applied in the modern world, including cultural resource management, repatriation, forensics, and heritage education.

Overview of archaeology of North America. Emphasis on patterns of development of regional cultures based on the archaeological record. Open to students in all majors.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe historical attempts to explain the origins of North America’s indigenous peoples, culminating in modern archaeological science.
2. Describe and evaluate differing theories regarding the nature and timing of humankind’s arrival in North America.
3. Describe the cultural characteristics of the first North American Indians, and explain how regional cultures emerged over the course of time.
4. Identify and describe the major cultural and geographical regions of prehistoric North America, and delineate the cultural chronology of each region, comparing and contrasting them with one another.
5. Identify the major episodes and trajectory early European contact, colonization, and territorial expansion across North America, and describe the cultural transformations that have affected both indigenous and immigrant groups since first contact.
6. Identify and describe major archaeological sites and discoveries that have contributed to scholarship for different regions, periods, and cultures in North America.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and explain the prehistoric origins of the Southeastern Indians, and identify the major culture periods defined by archaeologists for this region.
2. Identify the major episodes of early European contact and colonization in the Southeast, and describe the range and extent of their impact on the Southeastern Indians.
3. Explain and evaluate the origins of the well-known historic Southeastern Indian tribes during the historic period, and compare and contrast their histories and cultures.
4. Identify and describe cultural characteristics common to most Southeastern Indian groups, including social organization, subsistence, belief systems, ceremony, art, music, recreation, and language.
5. Describe and explain the cultural transformations and accommodations experienced by the Southeastern Indians during the later historic period, including Removal.
6. Identify the major surviving Southeastern Indian groups in the present day, and describe current affairs and concerns pertinent to their future.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe historical archaeology as a specialty within the archaeological subfield of anthropology, and its relationship to other specialties, subfields, and disciplines.
2. Trace the origins and history of historical archaeology as it is practiced in North America and elsewhere in the world.
3. Identify and describe the types of sites investigated by historical archaeologists, comparing and contrasting the data and methods associated with each.
4. Describe and explain how artifacts are studied and utilized by historical archaeologists.
5. Describe and explain how historical archaeologists situate their data in time and space, distinguishing those methods and techniques that are unique to historical as opposed to prehistoric archaeology.
6. Identify and describe the methods and techniques that historical archaeologists use to find and document sites prior to excavation, including documentary research, oral interviews, survey, and architectural fieldwork.
7. Identify and describe the methods and techniques that historical archaeologists use to conduct field excavation and followup labwork.
8. Describe and explain the major theoretical approaches used by historical archaeologists to interpret the historical past, including the identification and analysis of groups distinguished by social class, gender, ethnicity, and race.
9. Describe and explain the role of historical archaeology in cultural resource management, and the range of other career options available to historical archaeologists.
10. Identify and evaluate ethical and political issues commonly confronted by historical archaeologists, particularly as relates to relationships with living descendant groups.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and explain the purpose of archaeological fieldwork, and the relationship of data gathered in the field to the anthropological research goals of an archaeological project.
2. Demonstrate the proper use of survey instruments such as a total station or transit in archaeological fieldwork, including topographic mapping, horizontal and vertical grid layout, laying in excavation units, and elevation control during excavation.
3. Demonstrate the proper use of a range of hand tools in archaeological excavation, including unit and level excavation, feature excavation, and plan and profile cleaning.
4. Demonstrate proper archaeological record-keeping practices through field notes, forms, bag labeling, photographs, and scale drawings.
5. Demonstrate the proper care of archaeological field equipment, including inventory, cleaning, maintenance, and repair.

A comprehensive anthropological exploration of the origins and evolution of Spanish Florida as a colonial society between 1513 and 1763.  Draws upon the results of historical, ethnohistorical, archaeological (terrestrial and maritime), bioanthropological, and other research disciplines to present the Florida colony as a geographically-extensive multi-ethnic society within the context of the global Spanish empire.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and explain the chronological and geographical dimensions of Spanish Florida during the First Spanish Period (1513-1763), relating local settings and specific events to broader patterns and processes with multi-regional and even global implications.
2. Identify and describe the diverse ethnic groups which comprised greater Spanish Florida, including indigenous Native Americans and settler populations from Spain, Africa, and elsewhere.
3. Describe and evaluate the systemic relationships betweeen constituent populations and groups within and beyond greater Spanish Florida, including political, economic, and social relationships at many different scales of analysis.
4. Identify short- and long-term changes and variations in the colonial system of Spanish Florida, relating them to historical, systemic, and evolutionary processes affecting Florida from within and without.
5. Compare and contrast the colonial system of Spanish Florida with those of surrounding European colonial powers, exploring the implications and effects of these differences on constituent and neighboring populations.
6. Identify and describe the diverse evidentiary basis for understanding Spanish Florida as a distinctive human society, and the many academic disciplines and subdisciplines that employ this data in different and complementary ways.

Emphasizes the goals, methods and theoretical base of historical archaeology. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical development, acculturation, ethnicity, archaeological methods and documentary research. The class is an organized seminar with readings and discussions of specific topics.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and evaluate the theoretical basis for the historical archaeology as a discipline, including its relationship to general anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, and history.
2. Identify and describe the distinctive methodology of historical archaeology, particularly in comparison and contrast to that employed by prehistoric archaeologists.
3. Compare and contrast archaeological (material) and documentary (textual) sources of evidence regarding the human past, and how each relates to the practice of historical archaeology.
4. Compare and contrast the techniques, methods, and theoretical emphases of terrestrial and maritime historical archaeology, and explain how each subdiscipline complements the other.
5. Identify and describe how historical archaeology has contributed to our understanding of the emergence of the modern world, focusing on the colonial expansion of Europe since 1492 and the increasing degree of systemic interconnectivity across the globe.
6. Describe and evaluate the extent to which archaeological evidence for material culture contributes to our understanding of human variation in areas such as ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status.

A practical introduction to the use of historical documents in archeological research, both as primary sources of data for understanding the past, and as a complement to archaeological and other types of data. Examples and case-studies will center on the history of Florida during Spanish, British, and early American periods.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe disciplinary relationships between anthropology and history, and the theoretical and methodological context of historical archaeology.
2. Describe the many sources of evidence that are employed in historical archaeology, identifying the distinguishing features of historical documents as one source of evidence.
3. Identify and classify the various types of primary historical documents, how and why they were generated, and how originals and/or copies were distributed and archived.
4. Evaluate the extent to which we gain access to primary documentary texts considering issues of paleography, transcription, translation, and paraphrasing.
5. Explain various methods for evaluating the credibility or reliability of documentary texts, distinguishing primary and secondary sources of evidence.
6. Describe methods for employing historical documents as data for archaeological research in a rigorous scientific manner.
7. Appraise the extent to which the documentary and archaeological record complement one another, and how apparent differences can be reconciled.
8. Identify and explain issues specific to Spanish colonial archival research.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and explain the purpose of archaeological fieldwork, and the relationship of data gathered in the field to the anthropological research goals of an archaeological project.
2. Demonstrate the proper use of survey instruments such as a total station or transit in archaeological fieldwork, including topographic mapping, horizontal and vertical grid layout, laying in excavation units, and elevation control during excavation.
3. Demonstrate the proper use of a range of hand tools in archaeological excavation, including unit and level excavation, feature excavation, and plan and profile cleaning.
4. Demonstrate proper archaeological record-keeping practices through field notes, forms, bag labeling, photographs, and scale drawings.
5. Demonstrate the proper care of archaeological field equipment, including inventory, cleaning, maintenance, and repair.
6. Demonstrate proper preparatory and followup procedures before and after fieldwork, including assigning provenience numbers to artifact bags, naming and archiving digital photographs, and checking field records on a daily and weekly basis.
7. Demonstrate organizational and leadership skills in supervising small groups of undergraduate students in archaeological fieldwork under a variety of circumstances.
8. Demonstrate instructional and mentoring skills in providing hands-on training to undergraduate students in a range of archaeological fieldwork techniques.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe the broad range of circumstances, contexts, and cultural systems to which the terms colony, colonization, and colonialism might be applied throughout human history and across the globe.
2. Identify and explore the diverse motivations and reasons for colonialism in different times and places.
3. Identify and describe the range of strategies that were employed for colonial expansion.
4. Describe the relationship between colonial settlers and nearby indigenous groups in a diversity of circumstances.
5. Describe and explain the range of mechanisms by which constituent groups were assimilated and  integrated into new colonial societies.
6. Identify and evaluate the consequences of colonialism from a cultural and biological standpoint.
7. Describe and explain how colonial systems come to an end in different times and places.
8. Describe and evaluate the legacy of colonialism in the modern world.