Admission requirements
Material Studies obtained;
This is a seminar with a limited amount of participants (20 students), for Archaeology students exclusively;
This is not an optional course for the Archaeology BA3 programme. If you want to take this course as an extra-curricular course in your programme, you should ask permission from the Board of Examiners. You can only be admitted with permission, with proper argumentation, and only if there are spots left.
Description
This course provides an overview of key material categories recovered during excavation or present in ethnographic collections, but are often less well-preserved, at least upon excavation.
The taught classes will make you familiar with the nature and properties of these materials and will provide you with an understanding of the different production processes through which objects and built features were produced with such materials.
You will learn to recognise the single materials in objects or composite items of a wide range of scales, and be able to describe important technological features of organic and composite objects, as well as their production processes.
Course objectives
Ability to recognise a range of archaeological and ethnographic materials and artefacts of an organic and composite nature;
Acquire knowledge of the physical and mechanical properties of these different materials;
Understanding of the main production processes involved in processing these materials;
Ability to describe artefacts made of these materials from a technological perspective and according to academic standards.
Timetable
Course schedule details can be found in MyTimetable.
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Mode of instruction
Lectures;
Practicals with assignments;
Group presentations based on an urban fieldwork component and/or museum visits.
Assessment method
Portfolio based on group practical and individual work (40%);
Written essay (40%);
Presentations in class (20%).
The essay needs to be a pass (>5.0) and the final grade is the (weighed) average of essay, portfolio and class presentations.
Assessment deadlines
All assessment deadlines (exams, retakes, paper deadlines etc.) can be found in MyTimetable.
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Reading list
The reading list will be announced in advance of each class.
Registration
Registration start dates for the BA2 seminars differ from the registration dates of the regular courses.
Registration will take place with the use of Jotforms, which will be e-mailed to all BA2 students shortly.
Contact
For more information about this course, please contact prof. dr. A.N. (Ann) Brysbaert.
Remarks
Compulsory attendance.