ANT 4429 - Archaeological Curation Methods II

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course is designed as a continuation of ANT 3329, and will provide students with practical, hands-on experience in artifact care, management and preservation. Its emphasis is on understanding the current crisis in artifact curation experience by the discipline of archaeology, and how it affects the ways collections are used in archaeological research. We will examine and discuss case studies on ethics and consider ethical issues as they relate to archaeological collections care, management and research. The majority of the course will be hands-on, and will involve developing and carrying out a semester-long research design based on a curated collection. Students will work with archaeological collections housed by the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 3329