Summer 2018 - ARCH 433 D100

Background to Field Work (3)

Class Number: 5679

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 7 – Aug 3, 2018: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 9:30 a.m.–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Instructor:

    Hugo Cardoso
    hcardoso@sfu.ca
    778.782.4171
    Office: EDB 9621
    Office Hours: TBA
  • Prerequisites:

    ARCH 372 and permission of the Department. Normally taken concurrently with ARCH 434 and 435.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A general background to field work including discussions of ethnographic and archaeological contexts for field research, project research design, field safety, field camp living, and related topics. Students may repeat this course for credit when the field project is different.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course will provide background information and training related to the field research program that the students will be undertaking in as part of the 2018 Portugal Bioarchaeology field school. Lectures and labs will focus on providing historical, archaeological and cultural context for the field research and location, with discussions of the principles of bioarchaeological field research, including excavation and documentation of graves and cemeteries, stratigraphy, field and lab processing of human remains, ethics, public archaeology and other related topics. The course will include a component offered at SFU’s Burnaby campus, and a component offered at the Gambelas campus of the University of the Algarve, Portugal, where students will be introduced to Medieval History of Portugal and the Algarve, geomorphology of the southern Portuguese coast, medieval material culture and zooarchaeology of the Algarve region, and a history and overview of the archaeological investigations carried out at the village of Cacela-Velha, covering the Roman period to the Modern age.  

This course is being offered for the Archaeology Department's Portugal Field School. Students who are not participating in the Portugal field school cannot register for this course. To be taken concurrently with ARCH 434-3 D100 and ARCH 435-6 D100.

Grading

  • Written and lab mid-term exam 50%
  • Written and lab final exam 50%

NOTES:

Registration to this course is by permission of the department. Students attending the Portugal Field School will be registered upon acceptance. 

To be taken concurrently with ARCH 434-3 and ARCH 435-6.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

White, T.D. and P.A. Folkens. 2005. Human Bone Manual. Academic Press.
ISBN: 978-0-1208-8467-4

Department Undergraduate Notes:

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need classroom or exam accommodations are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Students with Disabilities (1250 Maggie Benston Centre) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.

Deferred grades will be given only on the basis of authenticated medical disability.


Registrar Notes:

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