Archaeology

Provides the student with in-depth training that will enhance employment opportunities as a professional archaeologist as well as providing a solid foundation for a B.A. and advanced degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology.

Learning Outcome(s):

1. Demonstrate field navigation, site recognition, site mapping, and site recording skills.
2. Demonstrate artifact classification, laboratory processing, analytical approaches, and data input techniques.
3. Demonstrate archival research skills, historic artifact analysis, and interpretation of historic site function(s).
4. Demonstrate basic excavation techniques, field data recording, and in-field artifact processing.
5. Integrate archaeology in anthropological context by synthesizing concepts from biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and world prehistory (archaeology).
6. Examine the importance of American Indian concerns within the field of archaeology.