Learning Outcomes:
1. Be aware and thoughtful about how experimental archaeology can investigate people's lives in the past
2. Be able to review and critique experimental archaeology projects, with an emphasis on understanding what makes for excellence in project design, the posing of research questions, the use of appropriate project methodologies to gather data, and interpretation in the context of archaeological evidence.
3. Make presentations, engage in seminar discussions, critically appraise ideas and approaches in experimental archaeology through reflection and debate.
Indicative Module Content:
Experimental archaeology; thinking about buildings in the past; technologies and skills; making things that are analogies for past objects; understanding how to think through experimental archaeological evidence