The Stone Age Meets the Information Age:

an introduction to archaeology

IFS 1998

Professor Jeanne Sept Anthropology Department Student Building 038 (office) 855-5395; sept@indiana.edu

Lisa Maiorino (intern) Teter Hall room xxx   lmaiorin@indiana.edu

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Monday August 3:

What is archaeology?

 

What images come to mind when you think about an archaeologist?

 

Which elements of Hollywood's portrayal of archaeologists (like "Indiana Jones") are realistic?

 

What do archaeologists study?

What types of information can we get information from artifacts?

Why would we want to classify artifacts (e.g. sort them into groups)?

 

Want to classify HATS, for example?!

 

 

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Jeanne Sept does field research related to the archaeology of human origins in East Africa,

and teaches in the Anthropology Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

visit her main web page Human Origins and Evolution in Africa or the following topical pages:
Africa | Primates | Human Evolution | Paleoecology | Archaeology
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Last updated: 3 August, 1998

URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/index.html
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