Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter E. Siegel. Benoît Bérard.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As most archaeologists would agree, we can never know with certainty what really happened in the past given (1) the fragmentary nature of the archaeological record and (2) the intangible aspects of human behavior that may have factored in forming the archaeological record. By integrating emic and etic perspectives...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Werner. Flannery Surette.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first ostrich eggshell beads appeared across parts of Africa 50 ka and represent one of the earliest forms of ornamentation. Far from being uniform, research shows differences in bead diameter which cluster regionally and chronologically. These clusters are thought to represent distinct bead making traditions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Blank.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological content in high schools appears in the social studies curriculum as historical narrative rather than as part of the process of active information production. Surveys of students indicated that they do not see value in archaeological content beyond the classroom and that they perceive their role in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Messner.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For several million years our ancestors used tools to shape their world, and themselves. Some argue we have lost our way, as artificial intelligence and machine learning has reshaped the fabric of society. Our post-industrial, capitalist mode of production resulted in a nearly complete detachment from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Kennedy. James Berry.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of archaeological ceramics has relied on a reconstruction of the techno-functional choices made by potters in the past through a chaîne opératoire approach. However, the insights gained through this analysis have largely confused or eluded our students due to a lack of practical experience with ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin Mason.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experimental archaeology is an inherently interdisciplinary field that fills gaps in our knowledge about the past by practically testing the production and use of material culture through collaborations between academics, skilled craftspeople, museum curators and public historians. Similarly, the material culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asher Blake. Zoe Anderson. Madison James. Mariah Smith. Catalina Terlea.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Undergraduate ceramic archaeological instruction is built around the common, and often taken for granted, categories of raw materials, functional forms, and decorative characteristics. As students, we primarily study these categories to classify materials in field and laboratory settings with little time or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jake Morton.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper looks at addressing specific pedagogical questions in an experimental archaeology classroom using the case study of a lab with a group of 25 students from a variety of majors. The lab explores the development of three ancient Mediterranean military technologies that defeated and replaced each other over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandy Bardsley. Jamie Paxton.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For five years, we have cotaught an undergraduate Introduction to Experimental Archaeology course under the auspices of the history department at a small university. In this paper, we examine the ways in which history and experimental archaeology share traditions of scholarship, learning objectives, and appeal to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Hopwood.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a unique category of socially charged material culture, beer has origins stretching back to people’s first obsession with wild grain. The deep time prehistory of beer coupled with the unique role of its psychoactive properties makes it a compelling bridge between academic archaeology and the public, allowing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aimée Little. Andy Needham. Gareth Perry. Jessica Bates. Andrew Langley.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, since the development of our outdoor experimental archaeology “lab” (York Experimental Archaeological Research “YEAR” Centre, University of York) we have designed a series of modules that place experiential learning at the center of pedagogical practice. Such is the success of these modules we now...