Internet Exercises

Internet Exercises

1. Ethnographic Fieldwork: Look at Dr. Laura Zimmer- Tamakoshi's web site documenting her fieldwork in New Guinea (http://www.truman.edu/academics/ss/faculty/tamakoshil/index.html).
   1. Click on the Planning section, and read all of the subsections (Background, Proposals, Prep, Field Sites, and Getting There). Why did Dr. Zimmer- Tamakoshi choose her field site? What researcyh questions was she investigating? Before this class, did you think that anthropologists invested this much time before they started their research?
   2. Go back and click on the Method section and read all of the subsections. How did Dr. Zimmer- Tamakoshi settle in and adjust to life at her field site? What field methods did she employ?
   3. Go back and go to the Writing section and read all of the subsections. How did Dr. Zimmer- Tamakoshi record and present her observations? How did the fieldwork affect her personally? How about returning home?
      
      
2. Archaeological Fieldwork: Go to the National Park Service's page describing the excavations at Stafford and Rayfield Plantations at the Cumberland Island National Seashore in South Carolina at http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/cuis.htm. Read the introduction to the site and the work. Then click on the "daily progress report with pictures and text" and go to http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/daily/daily.htm. Read the description of the work from each of the days and view the photographs.
   1. What kind of archaeological site is this? Why were archaeologists investigating the site?
   2. Before excavations began, what kind of work did they do?
   3. How did the archaeologists investigate the site before they started to do any excavations? Did they pick the locations to excavate randomly?
   4. From the photographs, what kinds of tools do the archaeologists use for the excavations? How do they control where they are excavating?