General Information
| Course Code | L_AABAALG061 |
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| Credits | 6 EC |
| Period | P4 |
| Course Level | 300 |
| Language of Tuition | English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
| Course Coordinator | dr. J.W.H.P. Verhagen |
| Examiner | dr. J.W.H.P. Verhagen |
| Teaching Staff |
dr. J.W.H.P. Verhagen |
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Practical Information
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| Teaching Methods | Seminar, Lecture |
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Target audiences
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Course Objective
This course offers an in-depth overview of the position, development and application of the most relevant digital methods in (landscape) archaeology.
- After finishing the course, students will have acquired
- advanced knowledge of digital methods and techniques used to collect and analyse (landscape) archaeological data and to answer (landscape) archaeological research questions
- insight in the position of digital methods and techniques in (landscape) archaeology, and knowledge about current developments in digital approaches in the discipline
- practical skills in applying a number of specific digital methods and techniques, focusing on data management, analysis and visualisation (in particular statistics, GIS and remote sensing, and modelling)
Course Content
The course is structured around practicals that are designed to develop archaeological data management and analysis skills to solve specific research questions, using
- GIS and remote sensing tools
- descriptive statistics, sampling methods and hypothesis testing
- basic multivariate statistics
The practicals will be centered on questions of site location analysis, detection of archaeological and landscape features, discovering patterns in (landscape) archaeological datasets and making predictions and estimations from archaeological samples.
Additional Information Teaching Methods
Combined lectures and practicals, 3 hours per week.
Method of Assessment
For each practical, a graded assignment needs to be completed. Each of these assignments is weighed equally for the final grade.
The resit regulations will be specified in the study manual.
Literature
- Drennan, R.D. 2009. Statistics for Archaeologists. A Common Sense Approach (Second Edition). Dordrecht: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-0413-3
- Conolly, J. & M. Lake 2006. Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807459
- Gillings, M., P. Hacıgüzeller & G. Lock (eds.) 2020. Archaeological Spatial Analysis: A Methodological Guide. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351243858
Additional literature will be made available during the course. This course requires the use of specific software packages (MS-Access, QGIS, R and others) that will have be installed on personal laptops. It is strongly recommended not to use a MacBook.
Additional Information Target Audience
Target audience:
- BA students 3rd year Archaeology or Earth Sciences;
- also open to students of Classics and Ancient Studies.
This course is part of the Minor in Archaeology Today: (Digital) Science in Archaeology , but can also be followed independently as an elective.
Recommended background knowledge
Digital Archaeology (ACASA BA2 Archaeology) or comparable course in other study programme