Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ANTH 4750 - Lithic Analysis: Stone Tools and Human Behavior
This course focuses on the study of stone tools in archaeology. We conduct laboratory analyses of artifacts, where students learn to describe stone tools and the debris of making stone tools. We also read foundational works in archaeology and anthropology, which relate to the use, manufacture, and interpretation of stone tools. This literature provides a theoretical foundation to allow students to better interpret prehistoric behavior and technology.
Requisites: 6 hours in ANTH including ANTH 2020 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of stone tools in prehistory.
- Students will be able to properly structure and conduct experimental research projects in archaeology.
- Students will be able to describe, quantify, and interpret the components of an archaeological assemblage through laboratory analysis and apply those methods to larger questions in anthropology and beyond.
- Students will be able to explain the development of lithic technology across space and time and reflect upon how that informs our understanding of past peoples.
- Students will be able to evaluate how human behavior can be modeled to identify or explain evolutionary or social adaptations.
- Students will be able to take intellectual risks by sharing tentative ideas, asking questions, engaging in self reflection, and attempting to learn and do new things.
- Students will be able to communicate the meanings associated with particular archaeological assemblages to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences.
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