AR 100: Great Discoveries in Archaeology <\/p>\n
Understanding Power<\/p>\n
Name: <\/p>\n
Instructions: The following four prompts present archaeological case studies from around the world. Read each prompt and use the evidence given to you to interpret how each site was used. Then think about how archaeologists could use this evidence to examine one of the four forms of power discussed in lecture: political, economic, military and ideological. Write 100-200 words with your response and explanation to each prompt.<\/p>\n
Case Study One: Israel<\/p>\n
You are conducting excavations at the Bronze Age site of Ashkelon, a coastal port city located in modern-day Israel. You uncover a connected series of rooms adjacent to a dock. These rooms are filled with the broken remains of hundreds of ceramic pots. A closer examination of the pots show that they are mostly large handled amphorae, which were used to transport goods. Residue analysis suggests many pots were used to transport olive oil and wine, while burnt grains of wheat suggest some pots were used to transport various grains. You also find fragments made of precious metals suggesting the exchange of luxury goods. Given this evidence, what do you think this site may have been? What form of power could you understand from this site?<\/p>\n
Case Study Two: Egypt<\/p>\n
You are excavating a Ptolemaic period site in Egypt. You find the foundation of a large building containing a series of rooms, though almost all of them have been looted. Very few artifacts remain, and the ones that do remain are mixed together making interpretation confusing. On your last day of excavation you find a pit containing many materials including dozens of bronze statuettes of the god Osiris. Architecturally the building seems to have been a public building based on its large size, and the arrangement of column fragments suggest it may have been a temple. Based on these pieces of information, how do you think this space was used? Can you think of any reasons why the objects in the pit may have been deposited together? What form of power could you understand from this site?<\/p>\n
Case Study Three: Turkey<\/p>\n
You are doing survey work at a first century A.D. site on the coast of Turkey. This site was used by Romans to bury their dead, and many large funerary monuments were erected. However you are not sure what classes of people were buried here, and you are unsure of how Roman colonizers interacted with Indigenous Anatolians. You are able to translate the following from the fragment of a funerary monument:<\/p>\n
\u201cholding the tribunician power for the seventh time, imperator for the fourteenth time, consul for the sixth time, and designated for the seventh, father of the fatherland, censor and imperator [illegible] Caesar, son of [illegible], holding the tribunician power for the fifth time, consul for the\u201d<\/p>\n
Based on contextual information and your translation, what class of people were buried here? What form of power could you understand from this site?<\/p>\n
Case Study Four: Ohio<\/p>\n
You are excavating a hilly area in northeastern Ohio that is threatened by road construction. Since this site has never been plowed, preservation is remarkably good. While excavating you notice large amounts of burned wood and a series of post holes. You interpret these features as the remains of a house that was burned down. Inside the house you find piles of stone projectile points in many phases of creation, suggesting that whoever lived here was creating lots of projectile points. There are no tools that suggest animals were being butchered here (e.g. scrapers). Given that whoever lived here was creating lots of projectile points to be attached to arrows and spears, and given that this structure seems to have been suddenly burned down, what do you think was going on here? What form of power could you understand from this site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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