In our lecture (podcast) for Week 5, Dr Chris Urwin discussed his partnership research with local communities in Papua New Guinea. He found that these communities had come into contact with what Western researchers would call 'archaeological materials' (ceramic sherds and lenses of dark soil) in their daily lives. How did they come across these subsurface records of the past?Question 13Answera.The development of a resort uncovered remains of a village site.b.Through activities involved in agriculture (digging and small-scale farming), which in the Pacific is known as 'gardening'.c.They were told about them by archaeologists who had excavated sites.d.A natural disaster (land slide) exposed the 'archaeological materials'.

Which of the following ways in archaeology can we use to investigate changes in indigenous societies following contact?Question 18Answera.Material culture and technological changeb.Patterns of settlement and subsistencec.Ethnographiesd.All of the above

Note: This is an in-class activity.Instructions:Below is a 'bad' reference list.  It is 'bad' because there are numerous errors with the list.  Can you spot what the errors are, and revise the list for improvement?Add your answers to discussion forumBaird, J. (2004). Media tarts: How the Australian press frames female politicians. Melbourne: Scribe.Bloxam, E. (2011). Ancient quarries in mind: pathways to a more accessible significance. World Archaeology, 149-166, 43(2) Max Schultze (1865), G. Bizzozero (1882). Brewer, D.B. (2006) and the discovery of the platelet. Br J Haematol. 133(3), 251-8.Climate Education: Drought. Retrieved from Bureau of Meterology. (2011): http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/drought.htmChant, S. (2008). The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision? Doi: 10.1080/00220380701789810 Journal of Development Studies, 44(2), 165-197. Hayes, A., Weston, R., Qu, L,. & Gray, M. (2010). Families then and now: 1980-2010. Australian Institute of Family Studies. Retrieved from http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/factssheets/fs2010conf/fs2010conf.html(August 28, 1963) Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington. Washington, D.C. available at http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.htmlPoverty in the United States. National Poverty Center. (2011). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://npc.umich.edu/poverty/R.F. Opie (2003). Guillotine. Phoenix Mill, UK: Sutton.Strangio, P. (2006) (Eds). John Cain Jnr: the burden of history. In P. Strangio & B. Costar, The Victorian Premiers, 1856-2006. Sydney: Federation Press.Wingate Todd, T. (1995). The respiratory system. In 6th ed, pp.1065-1102, A. Robinson (Ed.), Cunningham’s text-book of anatomy . London: Oxford University Press.

Review the text.Archaeology is the study of human culture through the examination of physical objects. These items may be anything humans created or used in the past.The materials archaeologists study fall into two categories: features and artifacts. Some well-known features include the Egyptian pyramids, the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru, and the sunken ship Titanic. Movable objects like tools, human bones, handcrafts, and clothing are examples of artifacts.Archaeologists might study a New York building constructed in the 1920s, or they might examine camp bedding left in a South African cave more than two hundred thousand years ago. Archaeologists hope objects like these will provide clues about past human cultures.Which best shows that the author's purpose is to inform readers about the field of archaeology?

Indigenous knowledges about the past may include:Question 15Answera.Oral narratives that recount human histories.b.Cosmological observations.c.Specialised understandings of local ecosystems.d.All of the above.

Read the following passage and answer the questions:Archaeology is partly the discovery of treasures of the past, partly the work of the scientific analyst, partly the exercise of the creative imagination. It is toiling in the sun on an excavation in the Middle East, it is working with living Inuit in the snows of Alaska, and it is investigating the sewers of Roman Britain. But it is also the painstaking task of interpretation so that we come to understand what these things mean for the human story. And it is the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage against looting and careless harm. Archaeology, then, is both a physical activity out in the field, and an intellectual pursuit in the study or laboratory. That is part of its great attraction. Which statement is correct?Archaeology involves creativity as well as investigative work.Archaeology is more common in the Middle East, Alaska, and  Britain.Archaeology excludes the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage.Archaeology is attractive because it’s a physical activity.قبلی