Unit Requirements and Expectations

Students must achieve an overall mark of 50% or above to complete this unit satisfactorily.

Group work marks will consist of 50% mark for individual work and 50% mark for team work.

Assignment submission

All written work must be submitted through the iLearn website. Please upload your assignment to the drop-box for the relevant week. Save your assignment as a pdf or a doc file (a pdf is best; please avoid docx).

All assignments must include the following at the start: Student name; Student Number; Assessment Task Title or Question. Assignment submitted without identification will not be marked.

Written assignments will be returned via the ‘turnitin’ tool on the iLearn Unit site, and will contain feedback from the marker within them.

Extensions and Special Considerations

Extensions can only be granted in exceptional cases and may only be sought in consultation with the unit convenor and with support of documentary evidence. If you anticipate any difficulty in meeting assigned due dates then it is important that you contact the course’s convenor as early as possible.

If you have an interruption of study lasting 3 or more days, you must file for special consideration, following the instructions below.

If you have a 1-2 day illness or interruption, please provide documentation, e.g. medical certificate. No extensions for voluntary activities will be provided. You may request an extension without documentation if you apply to the course convener a minimum of 7 days in advance. We will award these extensions at our discretion. Discretionary extensions will not be granted on the final project, as that would interfere with in-class activities.

Special Consideration Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html

Applying for Special Consideration Students applying for Special Consideration circumstances of three (3) consecutive days duration, within a study period, and/or prevent completion of a formal examination must submit an on-line application with the Faculty of Arts. For an application to be valid, it must include a completed Application for Special Consideration form and all supporting documentation.

The online Special Consideration application is found at: http://www.arts.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/admin_central/

Penalties

Written assessment tasks submitted after the due date without good reasons will be penalised by a deduction of 2% a day (including weekends) of the mark gained. After five days, a mark of 0% will be assigned.

Written assessment tasks submitted that are under or over the word length by more than 10% will be penalised with a 10% deduction. The marker will only read the listed word limit, i.e. if the word limit is 1000 words they will stop reading at 1000 words (plus or minus up to 100 words).

Written assessment tasks submitted without proper referencing, i.e. little or no page numbers or no bibliography will receive an automatic fail.

Marking Rubric

The short writings and final project will be graded using a rubric, which can be found on the iLearn unit site. 

Delivery

Lecture  Wednesday 1 -3 pm

Location  W5C 320 Tutorial Rm

Tutorials: W6B 382 Tutorial Rm (10 - 11am), W6B 282 Tutorial Rm (11 am - 12pm)

Online units can be accessed at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au

PC and Internet access are required for those who wish to access iLearn. Basic computer skills (e.g., internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement.

Please consult teaching staff for any further, more specific requirements.

Resources

Selected readings will be posted on iLearn.

Recommended Texts:

Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. 2012. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice.London.

Flannery, Kent V. 1976. The Early Mesoamerican village, Studies in archaeology. New York: Academic Press.

Barker, Graeme, and D. J. Mattingly, eds. 2000. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes (Populus Project). Oxford: Oxbow Books. - a series containing 5 volumes:

• Francovich, Riccardo, Helen Patterson, and Graeme Barker. 2000. Extracting meaning from ploughsoil assemblages, Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes. Oxford; Oakville, CT: Oxbow; David Brown.
• Pasquinucci, Marinella, and Frédéric Trément. 1999. Non-destructive techniques applied to landscape archaeology, Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes. Oxford; Oakville, CT: Oxbow; David Brown.
• Leveau, Philippe, Frederic Trement, Kevin Walsh, and Graeme Barker. 1999. Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology. Oxbow Books.
• Gillings, Mark, Davis Mattingly, and Jan van Dalen. 1999. Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology. Oxbow Books.
• Bintliff, John, and Kostas Sbonias, eds. 1999. Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC - AD 1800). Oxbow books.

Ashmore, Wendy, and A. Bernard Knapp, eds. 2000. Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives: Blackwell Publishers.

David, Bruno, and Julian Thomas. 2008. Handbook of landscape archaeology, World Archaeological Congress research handbooks in archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Burke, Heather, Claire Smith, and Larry J. Zimmerman. 2009. The archaeologist's field handbook. North American ed. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Kluiving, Sjoerd J., and Erika Guttmann-Bond. 2012. Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Renfrew, Colin, and Paul G. Bahn. 2004. Archaeology: the Key Concepts. 1 vol, Routledge key guides. New York: Routledge.

Alcock, Susan E., and John F. Cherry. 2004. Side-by-side survey: comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxbow.

Alcock, Susan E. 1993. 'Graecia Capta.' The Landscapes of Roman Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

* bolded items must be submitted via Turnitin, the other preparatory tasks are recommended so that your weeks 11 - 13 are not miserable