Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Anthropological Field Methods

该项目资助改进人类学课程，通过开设一个关于实地方法的新课程，在课程中增加一个方法部分。 尽管新课程可以针对人类学四个子学科中任何一个的实地方法，但这里使用的是考古学的视角。 本课程增加了人类学课程的方法论内容，并为学生提供了一个机会，培养做实地考察所需的技能。 本课程帮助学生将他们在课堂上学到的理论知识与实地考察的实际情况联合收割机结合起来。 该项目资助高科技设备，如测量设备，计算机，打印机和软件包。 研究的主要目的是研究社会复杂性的发展及其对波多黎各提贝斯考古遗址中史前家庭的影响。 研究战略是分阶段设计的，从试验阶段开始，对场地进行探测和测绘。 这一初始阶段的结果被用来完善方法，决定未来挖掘的位置，并进行必要的调整，以改善课程的形式。 第二阶段包括在前一年选定的地区进行更广泛的挖掘。

This project funds improvements in the anthropology curriculum by adding a methodological component to the curriculum through a new class on field methods. Although the new class can be directed toward field methods of any of the four subdisciplines of anthropology, here an archaeological perspective is used. This course increases the methodological content of the anthropology program and offers the students an opportunity to develop the skills necessary for doing fieldwork. The course helps students combine their knowledge of theoretical issues learned in the classrooms with the realities of fieldwork. The project funds high technological equipment such as surveying equipment, computers, a printer, and software packages. The main aim of the research is to study the development of social complexity and its effect on prehistoric households in the archaeological site of Tibes, Puerto Rico. The research strategy has been designed in stages starting with a pilot stage where the site is probed and mapped. The results of this initial stage are used to refine the methodology, to decide the location of future excavations, and to make the adjustments necessary to improve the format of the course. The second stage consists of more extensive excavations in the areas selected the previous year.