Admission requirements
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) obtained.
Description
During this course you will apply your knowledge and skills in computer applications as obtained during the first and second years of the Bachelor Archaeology.
These skills will be applied in a realistic archaeological case study.
A desk assessment will be conducted for a small part in the center on the Netherlands that combines two very characteristic Dutch landscapes: the Pleistocene moraine and the Holocene riverine areas.
Digital archaeological and environmental data will be collected, imported or digitised. Palaeo-geographic reconstruction and archaeological sites will be combined for several archaeological periods in order to interpret and predict the distribution patterns. The land use models should also include social factors.
Course objectives
Ability to apply computers skills;
Knowledge of archaeological formation and deformation processes;
Regional spatial analysis based on find locations available in a national archaeological database (Archis);
Step-by-step experience in performing a desk assessment;
Ability to create, evaluate, describe and present archaeological predictive model;
Develop writing skills through the report and the blogs, for different audiences.
Timetable
Course schedule details can be found in MyTimetable.
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Mode of instruction
Practicals with blogs;
Written assignment (map and paper).
Each week, two 4-hour sessions will take place. You will be working in small groups of 2 students, of which at least one should be able to read Dutch, since most of the resources (maps and literature) are only available in Dutch.
Assessment method
Weekly personal blogs;
Mandatory attendance at practicals;
Digital map of the predictive model;
Report describing the production steps, choices and limitations of the predictive model;
In the final grade the blogs represent ca. 10%, the map ca. 30% and the report ca. 60%;
A retake is only possible for the final report, but only if all other requirements, including the blogs, have been met.
Assessment deadlines
The dates of exams and retakes can be found in MyTimetable. The deadlines of papers, essays and assignments are communicated through Brightspace.
Reading list
Will be provided by the lecturer, and will be supplemented with literature discovered by the students.
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 forms. These will be e-mailed by the study advisers to all BA2 students at the beginning of January.
Contact
For more information about this course, please contact Drs. M. (Milco) Wansleeben.
Remarks
Many documents about the archaeology and geology of the Netherlands are in Dutch.