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Jul 18, 2025
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ANTH 5750 - 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: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 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.
- Students will be able to produce an academic paper that introduces new insights and makes significant contributions to scholarly understandings of stone tools and human behavior.
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