ANTHROPOLOGY 3:
Instructor:
Judith Habicht-Mauche
Assoc. Prof. Anthropology
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~judith/anth3/
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Session 1 Overview
Introduce course, T.A.s, Instructor
Review syllabus & work, visit Website
5-minute break
leave if this course is not for you
The World as Seen by Archaeologists
what archaeology studies and how
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Teaching Staff
Instructor: Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
Office: 403 Soc Sci 1
Phone: 459-3201(w/message machine)
E-mail: judith@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed 1-3 pm
Teaching Assistants:
Cristie Boone,Charlotte Cooper, Sarah Ginn,
Anna Higgins, Jessy O’Reilly, Jun Sunseri,
Jessica Watson
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What this Course IS:
General Introduction to Archaeology
*As practiced in North America
*As practiced by Anthropologists
Includes:
*History of Discipline
*Basic Method and Theory
*Social and Ethical Issues
*General Topics and Case Studies
(This course satisfies the Social Sciences Gen Ed (IS)
requirement and is required for all Anthro majors)
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What this Course IS NOT
 NOT about Dinosaurs
 NOT about Human Evolution
 NOT about World Prehistory
 NOT about “Ancient Civilizations”
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Course Structure
 Lectures and Video Presentations
 Assigned Readings
 Weekly On-Line Quizzes
 Section Discussions and Activities
 Independent and Group Projects
 Writing Assignments (Essays, Book Review)
 Anth 3 Workbook and Study Guide
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Required Texts
David Hurst Thomas (1999) Archaeology:
Down to Earth (2nd Edition)
James Deetz (1995) In Small
Things Forgotten (Revised)
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Anth 3
Workbook, Anth
3 Reader
OPTIONAL BOOKS
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For critical book review
All Books for this course are
available at Bay Tree Bookstore
And on reserve at McHenry Library
EVERYONE MUST PURCHASE
THEIR OWN COPY OF THE
WORKBOOK AND STUDY GUIDE
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VISIT ANTHRO 3 WEBSITE
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~judith/anth3/
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On-line Quizzes on WebCT
 Can be accessed through Anth 3 Web Site
 Use Cruzmail login and password
 Must complete 7 of 9 weekly quizzes to pass
the class
 Quizzes available from Tues noon through
Thurs midnight of each week
 Try taking “Demonstration Quiz” between now
and next Tuesday
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Go to Your Assigned Section
NEXT WEEK (Apr 5-8)
 This secures your place in class
 If you do not go, your name will be deleted
from class list
 If you can’t make the first section, see your
TA today or email them ASAP
Section Times & TA emails--posted on
Web, in Workbook and outside 461 Soc
Sci 1
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If You Are Not Enrolled & Want
to be Admitted to Anthropology 3
 Keep trying on AIS between now and Mon, Apr 4
 After Apr 4, enrollment will be by Permission Code
Only
 Attend any/every section that fits your schedule during
week of Apr 4-8.
 If there is space, TA will give you a permission code.
 Bring EVV to section to verify status.
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Remember:
ATTEND YOUR SECTION NEXT WEEK
To Retain Your Enrollment
No-shows will be deleted to open
places for new students.
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FIVE MINUTE BREAK
If you don’t think this course is for you,
here’s your chance to leave!
If you do, please leave the syllabus at exit.
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WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY?
Way of seeing and learning1
about past2 human cultures3
through the analysis of material
remains4 in their temporal and
spatial context5.
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Way of Seeing and Learning…
Body of theories about how world
works and how people create order
and meaning in their lives (multiple
and contested).
Body of methods and techniques for
recovering information.
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Archaeology shares with History an
interest in Human Past
Prehistoric archaeology
 Studies societies and spans of time for which
there are no written records
Historic archaeology
 Studies societies for which written records exist
 But reaches beyond documents to confront
material conditions of people’s day-to-day lives.
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Archaeology shares with Anthropology
an interest in Human Culture
 Culture is Behavior (What people do)
 Culture is System of Meaning (What
people think)
 Learned, shared, patterned, not rational
but rationalizing, dynamic.
 Structures and is structured by human
action in the material world.
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Archaeologists study material remains
physical traces of human action in the
world…
Artifacts: humanly-touched things
Features: human modifications in landscape
(houses, hearths, pits, fields, roads,etc.)
Ecofacts: objects of non-cultural origin
(seeds, pollen, bones, shell, etc.)
Is “Material Culture” Culture?
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Material remains meaningless outside of
temporal and spatial context…
 Sites: loci of past human activities; three
dimensional association of artifacts, features, and
ecofacts.
 Cultural Landscapes: two dimensional association
of sites and features.
Vertical associations = relationships through time.
Horizontal associations = relationships across space.
Excavation and Survey: techniques for
reconstructing vertical and horizontal associations
between artifacts, ecofacts, features, and sites
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The World as Seen by Archaeologists:
 Material remains are by-products of learned,
shared, cognitively structured behavior.
 Patterning in material record reflects cultural
behavior in a systematic way.
 Task of archaeology is to reconstruct these
patterns and explain their meaning--i.e. To
tell stories about the past.
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REMEMBER
GO TO SECTION NEXT WEEK
IN 461 Social Sciences 1
This is essential to your continued
enrollment in Anthropology 3
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