Final
Examination
The Final Examination in this course is optional and it is an "open-book"
exam. The answers to the examination must be pasted into an
e-mail message (NO attachments, please) and mailed to me through the WebCT site, no later than 12:00 noon (Eastern Time) on Friday,
March 9. Graduating seniors must submit the examination no later
than 5:00PM on Tuesday, March 6. The exam may, of course, be submitted
earlier. Please do not submit the examination in any way
other than as an e-mail in the WebCT site. If the Final Examination is not submitted by the due date,
you will receive the grade earned in the course up to that
date. If you do not submit the exam, you will simply receive the grade you have in the course to that date.
The Final Examination
Part A. Visual Sources
(20%). Write a brief commentary on two of the following
pictures, identifying what it is and providing as much information you
can, drawn from the material in this course.
Part B. Short Answer Questions
(30%). Answer FIVE of the following questions with a short
(but complete) response.
1, What was the significance of the
excavations conducted at Grand Congloue and what sort of things were
found there?
2. Briefly explain how ice-sheet cores
can be used as a dating tool in archaeology.
3. What kinds of buildings does one
normally find at a Panhellenic Sanctuary?
5. Describe what buildings you would
see in the Forum Romanum in about the year AD 200.
6. Why do you think the antiquities of
Egypt have exercised such fascination over the Western mind in the
past two centuries?
7. Do any of the claims made by
"pseudo-archaeology" seem to you well-founded? Why or
why not?
8. Name one way that archaeology has
been connected with ethnicity and/or national politics over the past
century.
Part C. Essays. (50%).
Answer TWO of the following questions with good and thoughtful
essays. Make sure that you provide detailed information and
examples, and not just generalizations.
1. Archaeology in recent years has
focused on survey projects as much as excavations. Discuss the
problems that archaeological survey entails and how some of these may
be solved.
2. Discuss the issue of the
"Pottery Dump" at Isthmia. Why is it important and
what can be learned from those thousands of broken pieces of pottery?
3. Of all the sites we have looked at
in this course--other than the one you looked at for your "site
report"-- which do you think was most interesting? Explain
why.
4. Imagine that it is ten years
from now. What do you think you will remember from this
course? What importance do you think that will have for you?
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