AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The session aims to discuss ways to engage students in hands-on, high-impact learning while delving into the captivating world of culinary archaeology. Food and cooking are a shared human experience and can be an essential entrée for students into understanding the skill, decision-making, and challenges past people navigated. Bring us your baked, boiled, and butchered! The session will provide a platform to share successes and lessons related to food-themed activities for students at various levels and modalities, with an eye for how these activities may help colleagues seeking to replace or reform assessments (exams, essays, online discussions, etc.) whose evaluation is problematized by AI text generators. We encourage you to contribute your expertise around the following themes: (1) Food-related Experimental Archaeology and Teaching Research Design for early undergraduate, late undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. How can we use food in the classroom as a lens to teach the research design? How can we use it to humanize and teach about social structures, technology, trade networks, and cultural identities of different periods? (2) Integrating AI-Proof (or AI-Cooperative!) Approaches. With the increasing integration of AI in education, many instructors are rethinking their usual assignments, presenting new opportunities for engagement.
Other Keywords
Experimental Archaeology •
Education/Pedagogy •
Historic •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Feasting •
Ethnohistory/History •
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology •
Cultural Heritage and Preservation
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
North America •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country)
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An Archaeologist and a Historian Walk Into A Classroom . . . (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the fall 2022 semester, we co-taught a Special Topics in Anthropology course entitled The Culture and History of Food and Drink. From our respective academic backgrounds as a historian and an archaeologist, we provided students with both an anthropological and a historical perspective to examine how...
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Building a Deeper Understanding of the Archaeology of Food through Photographs and Critical Reflection (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of food is rarely revelatory of an individual’s diet or of individual meals. Instead, it is usually indicative of a community’s procurement and processing patterns, consumption patterns, cooking methods, and disposal practices. But how can we teach students to understand this distinction and to...
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Hornos, Adobe, and Hands-on Learning at Southern Arizona National Parks (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The power of breaking bread together is well documented. Adobe, or earthen architecture, is an equally documented and important structural material. Combining the two, we get hornos, Spanish for earthen outdoor oven. While the term horno is not known by many visitors to National Parks, many K–12 students in urban...
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Less Writing, More Eating: Using Experiential Learning to Promote Engagement at a Small Liberal Arts College (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Warren Wilson College is a small school in Asheville, North Carolina that integrates work, study, and community service through the lens of experiential learning. In this talk, I will discuss some of the pedagogical choices in my Archaeology of Food and Feasting course that promoted student engagement apart from...
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Not Biting Off More Than We Can Chew: Experimental Archaeology in an Online Classroom (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experimental archaeology is a valuable tool for investigating the past and can be used to develop hands-on, high-impact learning opportunities for undergraduate students, helping to demystify the scientific process. Assigning such activities can also address some of the assessment challenges posed by the use of...
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Unearthing Potential: Using Earth Rock Ovens as a High-Impact Practice in the Undergraduate Archaeology Course (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. High-impact practices (HIPs) using hands-on activities, experiential learning, and collaborative learning employ methods that educators in archaeology have already been using for decades. The pedagogical push to use HIPs recently involves widespread recognition that not only do these methods work to engage...