Talk about your final paper
• Discuss how archaeologists conduct research
- Describe in detail an archaeological method
- Provide a case study that shows how these methods help us learn about the past
• Two approaches
- Start with a specific method, describe it and use case studies to show how it works
- Pick a case study, discuss how archaeologists studied it
• Formatting
- No page limit at all
- Don't trick out your fonts, margins, or spacing
- Cite sources both in text and have a bibliographyApproach 1, pick a methodology
• How do archaeologists conduct their research?
- Discuss one method in detail; do not simply discuss ‘archaeology'; that will result in an automatic C or lower
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the method you are discussing, when it's used, what does it help us determine
- Do not pick a dating method
• Have at least one case study
- Describe how archaeologists have collected data using said method to study the past
- Present their findings and what they mean
- Contextualize your case studies
- Not having a case study will result in automatic C or lowerApproach 2, pick a case study
• Start with a case study
- King Tut, Otzi, Machu Picchu, anything that is interesting to you
- Describe the case in detail; give me actual data and explain what it means
• Discuss the methodology
- How did archaeologists collect data?
- Don't need to focus on one method
- Failure to discuss methodology will result in an automatic C or lower
• Regardless of your approach have fun with the paper topic; if you're enjoying the paper I'll enjoy grading it and we all win. No jokeFormatting
• Page length
- No hard page limits, if you write less I won't automatically mark you down for it
- Generally, you will need at least 6 pages, not including bibliography
- Write more or less as you see fit
• Margins and spacing
- No more than double spaced
- Do not make your margins larger than 1 inch
- Fonts should be between 10 and 12 points in size