Archaeology Final Exam - Option 2, Exams of Environmental Archaeology

OPTION 2: FINAL EXAM: ANTH 588, ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY

Select four topics from the six listed below. For each of the four topics you’ve chosen,

find a transdisciplinary article that exemplifies, addresses, or contributes to the

respective topic. Each paper you choose should include authors who belong to different

disciplines. You cannot use an article included on the course syllabus or assigned in

class (or another class). Once you have identified your four articles, address the

following for each (your responses can be brief, 100-200 words for each):

(1) What is the main (BIG) research question being addressed that is relevant

as people began to migrate from the hinterlands into a rapidly coalescing

Teotihuacan in the Basin of Mexico?)

(3) What disciplines are represented by authorship and what does each discipline

bring to the study?

(4) How/why was a transdisciplinary approach necessary to achieve the

outcomes/interpretations presented in the study? What would be missing if the

study was written only by archaeologists? What would be missing if no

archaeologists were involved?

Topics

Conservation/Biodiversity