There will be regular quizzes.   Students will also be required to:

•          Compile a laboratory identification note book made up of your own annotated drawings of laboratory specimens.  These should highlight key characters used in identification.  Add additional xerox's of illustrations from texts in the laboratory and in the libraries that will help you in the identification of archaeological specimens. Include a short bibliography of useful zooarchaeological references for each of the major taxonomic groups. The aim of this project is to help you to learn key characters for identification, and to compile a notebook which would be useful to you in any future field study of archaeological faunal material. It is important to keep up with the notebooks as we go along.  They are due on April 27.  No late notebooks will be accepted.
• Write a short (10 page) paper on the status of  zooarchaeological research on one of the major taxonomic groups or families, such as sheep and goat, bison, camels, elephants or dogs, or in a specific area of zooarchaeological research such as seasonality studies, aging, domestication, herding or predation.  Your reading (and bibliography) on the topic should be extensive, the paper itself should be a short synthesis of what you have gleaned.   Start with all the recent literature you can find on the topic and work back.  References in the syllabus, and books in the lab are the place to start. The  paper should synthesise and summarise what you have found in the course of your reading.    Comment on the amount of zooarchaeological work done in the area, major gaps, and future directions for research.   In cases where the literature is very large, groups can be restricted by geographical area, or archaeological time period.  A paper title is due January 31 and an outline March 26.  The final paper and a 10 minute oral report is due April 27.