Berkeley CALECTURES AND TOPICS OF THE DAY
Below is listed links to supplemental lecture material. The lectures proper are not generally posted here, so you gotta come to class
LECTURE CALENDAR (subject to revision; not all lab periods listed)
DATE SUBJECT
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January 18, Introduction - Questionnaires, course structure (Shackley and Henrickson)
January 25 Science, the scientific method, and research methods
(Quiz on the abbreviations in the periodic table of the elements; here’s one - http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/)
Reading: Goffer, “Geochemistry...”; Tite, “Materials studies”; Text, Intro., Chap. 2; Shackley, “Glossary”.
Feb 1 Science in Archaeology, Introduction to Archaeometry
Reading: same as Jan. 25
Feb. 6 I. Dating Methods: Introduction.
Reading: Shackley, “Chronology, stratigraphy...”; Taylor, “Radiocarbon dating”; Friedman et al., “Obsidian hydration...”;
February 8 IV. Dating Methods: K-Ar and Ar40/Ar39,
Fission Track, and Uranium Series dating. (at Berkeley Geochronology Center;
2455 Ridge Road Berkeley CA
Reading: Walter, “Potassium Argon...”; Westgate et al., “Fission track...”.
February 13 II. Dating Methods, 14C
Web (The CALIB program): http://calib.qub.ac.uk/calib/
(14C calibration project, due February 22)
February 15 Lab – Calibration project with GSI
February 22 Lithic Technology and Archaeological Science
Reading: Shackley, “Gamma Rays...”; Text, Chapter 6; Whittaker, “Raw materials”.
March 1 Petrology in Archaeology
-Introduction to Petrology
-Raw Materials
-Geological Mapping in Archaeology
Reading: Shackley, “Obsidian petrology...”; Luedtke, “The nature of chert”, and Origins...”; Rapp and Hill, “Raw material...”.
March 6 Mid-term discussion with GSI
March 8 I. Mid-Term Exam (written and lab), Term paper/project proposal due
Mar 15 & 22 Optical Petrography in Archaeology (meet in Petrography Lab, McCone Hall 365) Guest Co-Instructor, Leah Morgan (EPS).
Petrography - Sedimentary and metamorphic
Reading: Luedtke, “Visible properties”; MaKenzie and Adams, “Optical mineralogy”; Shackley, “Glossary”
March 27-31 Spring Recess
April 3 Electron microprobe and environmental SEM at EPS, McCone Hall
April 5 The Provenance Hypothesis and Obsidian Studies in a 21st Century Archaeology
Reading: Tite, “Materials studies...”(review this); Wilson and Pollard, “The provenance hypothesis”; Rapp and Hill, “Sourcing (Provenance)”
April 12 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Lab (McCone Hall 427).
Written Term Paper Proposal Due.
Reading: Shackley, “Obsidian sources...”; Shackley, “What is XRF?”
April 17 XRF Lab, continued
April 19 Term paper/project discussion in class, (Class obsidian source provenance project)
April 26 Celeste Henrickson - Geomorphology
May 1 Final discussion - GSI
May 3 FINAL LAB EXAM 2-5 pm
May 14 TERM PROJECTS/PAPERS DUE!: 232 Kroeber Hall or Shackley mailbox, 2251 College, 5 pm
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!