This OER introduces students to the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. The chapters are mostly derivative works that draw upon Perspectives, Explorations, and other previously published OER, and are augmented by the authors’ contributions. The editors’ goals are to present diverse perspectives and contemporary research across all four …
Category: ANTH 150
This OER is a multi-authored, peer reviewed textbook for undergraduate lower-level introductory archaeology courses. Part 1 (“Why Do We Do Archaeology?”) includes eight chapters on archaeological methods, theories, ethics, social impact, and importance. Part 2 (“How Do We Do Archaeology”) includes eight chapters on the archaeological process, dating methods, interpretative techniques, as well as ancient …
This OER explores archeology as the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture specifically artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes, with a focus on the Americas.
Multi-authored, peer-reviewed, accessible chapters. 16 chapters focus on essential topics in introductory archaeology courses (emphasis on theory and methods). Each chapter includes: learning objectives, terms list, review questions, one or more activities (activities include: short in-person activities, hands-on activities, short-term and full-term projects, indoor and outdoor activities, individual and group work). Flexible modality for in-person …
Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Intro to Archaeology course by giving them questions and assignments to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures.
Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging from the Americas to the Near East, chapters in this volume bring various perspectives to questions of writing materialities.