Unit Code:	ARC2ANT
Alternative Unit Code:	ARC3ANT
Unit Short Title:	ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	Stone tools and the debris from their manufacture make up the bulk of the Australian archaeological record and their analysis and interpretation touches on almost every aspect of archaeological theory and practice. A broad range of problems is investigated through the study of stone artifacts: questions about the social and economic strategies of past societies and about the patterns of interaction between them. An equally broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches is employed to generate the information needed to answer these questions. Implementing these approaches is a daunting task without some practical knowledge about how to identify, describe and analyse stone artifacts and one of the aims of this subject is to show how this is done.
Prerequisites:	15 credit points of Archaeology subjects, or the co-ordinator's approval
Class Requirements:	one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour workshop per week. For a pass in this subject students must normally attend at least 80% of the workshops
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 3,000-word essay	55
three data analysis assignments (2,000-words equivalent)	45	Third-year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline-specific skills in their written work than second-year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	Written in stone, decoding the Australian flaked stone record,	Holdaway, S.J. and Stern, N.	Aboriginal Studies Press and Museum Victoria 2004
Recommended	Lithics: macroscopic approaches to analysis,	Andrefsky, W.	2nd edn, Cambridge Universty Press 2005

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Nicola	Stern	BUNDOORA	Y