Anth 3130: Archaeology and Society
26 Jan 2006
Upcoming: I will shortly post a list of topics and preliminary guidelines for your term paper assignment.
Reading: Next week is the Skeates book, Preface, Ch 1-3. These are on reserve at Scott, and a copy is available outside my office. (If you borrow, please return promptly.) It is also (I believe) available at the bookstore now.
Homework for next week - worth 3% of your seminar participation mark.
Write a short (350-500 word) reflection comparing the attitudes towards the past in the first three chapters of the Skeates book with the Holtorf book. Considering their overall approach to the past: How are their views similar? How are they different? Explore any aspect. For specific points or quotations, cite your sources carefully, as you would for an essay. Check these guidelines if you don't know the anthropology system.
NOTE: If you'd like to read the Iliad -- upon which the film Troy, and the documentary we watched in class today, was based... here: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
or here (in a somewhat more modern translation): http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm
The Present Past
Maiden Castle, Dorset
Knowlton
Cerne Abbas Giant
Quick overviews of Stonehenge, if you want to know more: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.876 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge,
Region Map: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehengeinteractivemap/
Carhenge:
Holtorf - Monumental Past: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/0.1.html
Particularly: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/5.0.html
Video and discussion:
National Geographic's "Beyond the Movie: Troy", 2004
Troy II Treasure or "Priam's Treasure" before it was divided and sent to multiple museums.
*** Regional map showing configuration of the bay of Troy during Troy VI-VII (Middle to Late Bronze Age).
*** Aerial view (mound at upper right).
*** Composite plan, showing Troy levels I (black), II (yellow), and VI (red).
*** Composite section, showing Troy levels I (black), II (yellow), and VI (red), with Classical-period temple on top.
*** Levels in pancake fashion, with reconstruction of Troy VI (Late Bronze Age) at lower right.