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Semester One
Course Readings and Weekly Topics
Week 1 - Is there an Archaeological Theory?
Readings:
Hegmon, M. (2003) Setting Theoretical Egos Aside: Issues and Theory in North American Archaeology American Antiquity 68(2): 213-244.
Johnson, M. H. (2006) On the nature of theoretical archaeology and archaeological theory. Archaeological Dialogues 13 (2):117-132.
Klejn, L. S. (2006) Neither archaeology nor theory: A critique of Johnson. Antiquity 80(308): 435-441.
Thomas, J. (1999) Culture and identity. In G. Barker (ed.) Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Rotledge: London. Pp. 431-469. Part 1 & Part 2
Week 2 - Philosophy and Archaeology
Readings:
Bruck, J., (2005) Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory, Archaeological dialogues 12, 45–72.
Fogelin, L. (2007) Inference to the Best Explanation: A Common and Effective Form of Archaeological Reasoning American Antiquity 72: 603-625
Johnson, M.H. (2010) Archaeological Theory an Introduction (2nd Edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Chapter 3 Archaeology as a Science.
Wylie, A. (2007) Philosophy of archaeology; philosophy in archaeology. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology Stephen P.Turner and Mark W. Risjord (eds). Pp 517-549.
Week 3 - Research Techniques
Library research techniques with the subject librarian.
Week 4 - My Research 1: Landscape Archaeology and WNSWAP
Readings:
Douglass, M., J., S.J. Holdaway, P.C. Fanning and J.I. Shiner (2008) An Assessment And Archaeological Application Of Cortex Measurement In Lithic Assemblages. American Antiquity 73(3): 513-526.
Fanning, P. C., Holdaway, S.J. and Bryant, T. (2009) A geoarchaeological model for interpreting the archaeology of the arid regions of southeastern Australia. Geoarchaeology 24 (2): 121–146.
Holdaway, S.J. and P. Fanning (2008) Developing a Landscape History as Part of a Survey Strategy: A Critique of Current Settlement System Approaches based on Case Studies from Western New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 15(2):167-189.
Week 5 - The Archaeological Record
Readings:
Plog, S. (2011) The Contribution of Behavioral Archaeology and the Research of Michael B. Schiffer to the Discipline. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18:278–283
Schiffer, M. B. (1972) Archaeological Context and Systemic Context. American Antiquity 37(2): 156-165.
Stern, N. (2008) Time-averaging and the structure of Late Pleistocene Archaeological Deposits in Southwest Tasmania. In Holdaway, SJ and L. Wandsnider (eds) Time in Archaeology: Time Perspectivism Revisited. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Pp 134-148.
Wandsnider, L. (1996) Describing and Comparing Archaeological Spatial Structures. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 3:319–384.
Week 6 - Landscape Archaeology 2
Readings:
Athanassopoulos, E. F. and L. Wandsnider (2004) Mediterranean landscape archaeology past and present. Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues. E. F. Athanassopoulos and L. Wandsnider. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: 1-13.
Ammerman, A. J. (1981) Surveys and archaeological research. Annual Review of Anthropology 10: 63-88.
Dunnell, R. C. (1992) The notion site. In Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes. J. Rossignol and L. Wandsnider. New York, Plenum Press: 21-41.
Fish, S. (1999) The settlement pattern concept from and Americanist Perspective. Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas fifty Years Since Viru. B. R. Billman and G. M. Feinman. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press: 203-208.
Fleming, A. (2006) Post-processual Landscape Archaeology: a Critique. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16: 267-280.
Holdaway, S.J., and Wandsnider, L. (2006) Temporal scales and archaeological landscapes from the Eastern Desert of Australia and Intermontane North America, In: Lock, G. and Molyneaux, B. L.(ed.), Confronting Scale in Archaeology. New York, Springer Science and Business Media., pp.183-202.
Week 7 - Dissertations: Short Presentations
The structure of the BA Hons dissertation
Developing the context of the research problem.
You are required to hand in your dissertation literature outline before the class and be ready to discuss your problem and how this fits into the wider archaeological literature.
Week 8 - New Archaeology
Readings:
Binford, L., (1978) Dimensional Analysis of Behavior and Site Structure: Learning from an Eskimo Hunting Stand. American Antiquity 43:330–361.
Binford, L. R. (1980) Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation. American Antiquity 45(1): 4-20.
Kelly, R. L. (2011) Why Did Binford's Middle-Range Program Outcompete Schiffer's Formation Process Program? Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18:284–290.
O'Connell, J. F. (1987) Alyawara Site Structure and its Archaeological Implications. American Antiquity 52(1):74-108.
Shennan, S. (2004) Forty years on. Journal of Human Evolution 46:507-515.
Week 9 - My Research 2: Mobility and Environmental Interaction
Readings:
Readings for this week will be available via CECIL.
Week 10 - Seminar Presentations
Week 11 - Seminar Presentations
Week 12 - Posters
Semester Two
Course Readings and Weekly Topics
Week 1 - Material Culture
Readings:
Binford, L. R. (1986). An Alyawara Day: Making Men's Knives and beyond. American Antiquity 51(3):547-562.
Dunnell, R. C. (1978). Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy. American Antiquity 43: 192-202.
Gosden, C. and Y. Marshall, (1999). The cultural biography of objects. World Archaeology, 31(2):169-78.
Rodseth. L. (1998). Distributive Models of Culture: A Sapirian Alternative to Essentialism. American Anthropologist 100 (1): 55-69.
Sackett, James R. (1982). Approaches to Style in Lithic Archaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1:59-112.
Week 2 - My Research 3: Material Culture
Readings:
Holdaway, S.J., and M. Douglass. (2011). A Twenty-first Century Archaeology of Stone Artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
Week 3 - Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology
Readings:
First read:
Shennan, S. (2008) Evolution in archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 37: 75-91.
Then read:
Beck, Charlotte, Amanda K. Taylor, George T. Jones, Cynthia M. Fadem, Caitlyn R. Cook, and Sara A. Millward. (2002) Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21 (4):481-507.
Bird, Douglas W., Bliege Bird, R. L. (1997) Contemporary shellfish gathering strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: testing predictions of a central place foraging model Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 39-63.
Bird, D. W., and J. F. O'Connell. (2006) Behavioral ecology and archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 14 (2):143-188.
Henrich, J. (2006) Understanding cultural evolutionary models: A reply to Read's critique. American Antiquity 71(4): 771-782.
Week 4 - Evolutionary Archaeology
Readings:
First read:
Lyman, R. Lee. and J. O’Brien (1998) The goals of evolutionary archaeology: history and explanation. Current Anthropology 39: 615-652.
Then read the articles in pairs:
A.
Codding, B. F. and T. L. Jones (2007) Man the showoff? Or the ascendance of a just-so-story: A comment on recent applications of costly signaling theory in American archaeology. American Antiquity 72(2): 349-357.
McGuire, K. R., W. R. Hildebrandt, et al. (2007) Costly signaling and the ascendance of no-can-do archaeology: A reply to Codding and Jones. American Antiquity 72(2): 358-365.
B.
O'Brien, M. J. and R. L. Lyman (2004) History and explanation in archaeology. Anthropological Theory 4(2):173-197.
Pauketat, T. (2004) Archaeology without alternatives. Anthropological Theory 42(2):199-203.
C.
Gabora, L. (2006) The fate of evolutionary archaeology: Survival or extinction? World Archaeology 38(4): 690-696.
Lyman, R. L. and M. J. O'Brien (2006) Evolutionary archaeology is unlikely to go extinct: Response to Gabora. World Archaeology 38(4): 697-703.
Week 5 - Culture as an Evolutionary System
Readings:
Marcus, J. (2008) The archaeological evidence for social evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 37:251-266.
O'Brien, M. J. (2006) Archaeology and cultural macroevolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(4):359-360.
Shennan, S. (2002) Genes, Memes and Human History. London: Thames and Hudson. Chpt. 3. pp. 35-65.
Zeder, M. (2009) The Neolithic Macro-(R)evolution: Macroevolutionary Theory and the Study of Culture Change. Journal of Archaeological Research 17:1–63
Week 6 - No meeting
Week 7 - My Research 4: Egypt
Readings:
Holdaway, S.J., Wendrich, W., Phillipps, R. (2010) Variability in Low Level Food Production Societies as a Response to Resource Uncertainty Antiquity 84(323):185-194.
Phillipps, R., Holdaway, S.J., Wendrich, W. and Cappers, R. (2011) Mid Holocene Occupation of Egypt and Links to Global Climatic Change. Quaternary International
Week 8 - Time Perspectivism
Readings:
Binford, L., 1981) Behavioral Archaeology and the Pompeii Premise. Journal of Anthropological Research 37:195-208.
Bailey, G. (2007) Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26, 198-223.
Bailey, G. and Galanidou, N. (2009) Caves, palimpsests and dwelling spaces: examples from the Upper Palaeolithic of Southeast Europe. World Archaeology 41(2), 215–41.
Holdaway, S.J. and L. Wandsnider (2008) Time in Archaeology: An Introduction. In Holdaway, S. and L. Wandsnider (eds) Time in Archaeology, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. pp. 1-12.
Lucas, G. (2007) Visions of archaeology. An interview with Tim Murray. Archaeological Dialogues 14(2): 155-177.
Murray, T. (1999) A Return to the 'Pompeii Premise'. In Time and Archaeology, edited by T. Murray, pp. 8-27. Routledge, London.
Week 9 - 10 Minute Dissertation Presentations
Week 10 - Agency in Archaeology
Readings:
Barrett, J. C. (2001) Agency and the Archaeological Record in Hodder, I. (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today. Polity Press: Cambridge. Chapter 6, pp. 141-164.
Barrett, J.C. and Ko, I.H. (2009) A phenomenology of landscape: A crisis in British landscape archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 9: 275-294.
Hodder, I. and C. Cessford (2004) Daily practice and social memory at Catal Huyuk. American Antiquity 69(1): 17-40.
Joyce, R. A. and J. Lopiparo (2005) PostScript: Doing agency in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12(4): 365-374.
Spriggs, M. (2008) Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history. World Archaeology 40(4): 538-552.
Week 11 - My research 5: A Material Manifestation of Social Organisation
Readings:
Readings for this week will be available via CECIL.
Week 12 - Review
Finding Books
Library Catalogues
- Search the Catalogue to find books, audiovisual material, serials (newspapers, journals, magazines) held in the University of Auckland library system.
- New Zealand Archaeological Site Reports.
- Union or national catalogues show the combined library holdings for a country.
Finding Journal Articles
Databases
- Anthropology Plus
A key Anthropology database, Anthropology Plus indexes journal articles and edited books in anthropology and archaeology (19th century-). It has more than 800,000 records and uses modified Library of Congress (LC) subject headings (but has no abstracts). Very good coverage of archaeology journals but no abstracts can make finding relevant material difficult.
- AnthroSource
Provides cross-searchable PDF files of all American Anthropological Association journals and newsletters, including the most recent issues. Links to JSTOR for older issues. AnthroSource pages are also indexed by Google Scholar. AnthroSource journals and other publications.
- Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
Abstracts literature on the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
- Biological Abstracts
Biological anthropology, evolution, human ethology etc. Some coverage of archaeology.
- eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Full-text books and journal articles on a representative range of prehistoric societies, indexed at the paragraph level.
- Geobase
Indexes 2,000 journals in physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies.
- Georef
Covers the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. Some coverage relates to archaeological topics.
- Google Scholar
Searches scholarly literature from AnthroSource, Project Muse, JSTOR, publishers and academic websites. Also searches academic websites and full-text Google Print books. Connect via the Library's Database page to access full text material to which the University Library subscribes. Be aware that Google Scholar is not comprehensive and many publishers are not searched. Search results are ranked by various criteria including how often the work has been cited in other scholarly works. This means there is a bias towards older, heavily-cited, seminal works rather than the latest publications.
- JSTOR
Full text of all the volumes of 22 Anthropology and 17 Archaeology journals, for the JRAI back to 1872 and for the American Anthropologist back to 1888. JSTOR Anthropology & Archaeology titles. JSTOR journals are also searched by Google Scholar.
- Science Direct
Full-text science journals.
- SCOPUS
Provides citations, abstracts and references covering 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers. Similar to Web of Science but focuses more on science publications.
- Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database, comprising Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Search the Science and Social Sciences indexes together for full coverage of archaeological articles. You may search for journal items by the references that they cite (including books or chapters in books). This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject/author searching. An important tool for tracing the published responses of scientists and scholars to the work of their peers. Also useful for tracing the development of themes and ideas backwards and forwards in time.
New Zealand, Pacific and Australia
- Index New Zealand INNZ
Indexes New Zealand and Pacific journals, magazines and some newspaper
articles (1987-).
For 1941-1986 see Index to New Zealand periodical
- Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
From the University of Hawaii at Manoa, indexes over 50 titles, including the JPS back to 1892.
- Informit (formerly AUSTROM)
A large suite of Australian databases including APAIS (Public Affairs and General), various Asian resources databases, AHRR (Historic records), AUSCHRON (Historic events), MIHILIST (Military History), indigenous peoples databases including AIATSIS (Indigenous Studies), ATSIS, and AHB (see below). Databases can be searched separately or together. For Australian sources.
- Australian Heritage Bibliography (AHB)
Indexes information on Australia's natural and cultural environment, including national parks,
endangered species, wilderness areas, important historical and archaeological
sites, historic buildings, structures and towns. See also the The HERA-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Select the database(s) you want to search from the list. Good coverage of archaeology.
- NZ Science
Coverage includes NZ archaeology, biological anthropology and related sciences,
DSIR and CRI scientists' publications, NIWA and Landcare material. Includes abstracts for articles, papers, published books, theses, reports. Indexes Archaeology in New Zealand from 1991 and a lot of NZJA articles.
SH: Archeology [sic]
- Find NZ articles
National Library of New Zealand combined search of Index New Zealand, Index New Zealand Chapters (8000 records for chapters in books 1987-1999), Te Ao Hou, newspaper indexes at Christchurch and Dunedin, BUGS database, Royal Society of New Zealand (NZ Science journals, 1918-1994) and Landcare Research Publications Database.
Key Journals
Methodology, Philosophy and History
- The following Subject searches may be useful, either alone or combined with names of countries, subjects:
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