In this podcast we will piggyback onto geoarchaeology and discuss how archaeologists date sites in general and cultural materials specifically. First, we will discuss relative dating, then move into seriation and cross-dating, finally we move on to...
In this podcast, we move into the subdisciplines of archaeology and some of the more methodological aspects of the discipline. To start, we're going to discuss how geology and archaeology intermingle for a specialized study of archaeology, then how an...
Really a mini-episode, this episode shows a deeper look at analogies and middle-range theory to explain how archaeologists can possibly study human behavior from the disadvantage of the past. I also go dumpster diving.
This episode will talk about processual archaeology, its use of the scientific method, materialist paradigm, and evolution. We end with the counter-processualist paradigm, the post-processualist movement and I try to keep my cool.
We look at the archaeology podcast and a brief introduction to the discipline...and only one baseball analogy.
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About Archaeology
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An academic introduction to American archaeology, this podcast provides a simple surface analysis of the discipline of archaeology. At times combining both archaeology and anthropology, this podcast…
will focus at first on the history of the field, its scientific background, its methods and methodology, the subdisciplines within archaeology, and finally the American Cultural Resource Management program.