Talk about your final paper

• Discuss how archaeologists conduct research

- Describe in detail an archaeological method

- Provide a case study that shows how these methods help us learn about the past

• Two approaches

- Start with a specific method, describe it and use case studies to show how it works

- Pick a case study, discuss how archaeologists studied it

• Formatting

- No page limit at all

- Don't trick out your fonts, margins, or spacing

- Cite sources both in text and have a bibliographyApproach 1, pick a methodology

• How do archaeologists conduct their research?

- Discuss one method in detail; do not simply discuss ‘archaeology'; that will result in an automatic C or lower

- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the method you are discussing, when it's used, what does it help us determine

- Do not pick a dating method

• Have at least one case study

- Describe how archaeologists have collected data using said method to study the past

- Present their findings and what they mean

- Contextualize your case studies

- Not having a case study will result in automatic C or lowerApproach 2, pick a case study

• Start with a case study

- King Tut, Otzi, Machu Picchu, anything that is interesting to you

- Describe the case in detail; give me actual data and explain what it means

• Discuss the methodology

- How did archaeologists collect data?

- Don't need to focus on one method

- Failure to discuss methodology will result in an automatic C or lower

• Regardless of your approach have fun with the paper topic; if you're enjoying the paper I'll enjoy grading it and we all win. No jokeFormatting

• Page length

- No hard page limits, if you write less I won't automatically mark you down for it

- Generally, you will need at least 6 pages, not including bibliography

- Write more or less as you see fit

• Margins and spacing

- No more than double spaced

- Do not make your margins larger than 1 inch

- Fonts should be between 10 and 12 points in size