BAA 102L Paleoanthropological Field Methods
Instructor: Dr. Lee Berger
This one-credit laboratory course will be a hands-on program of instruction that will cover methods of maintaining archeological provenance (grid systems, stratigraphic reconstruction, point provenancing techniques, and field recording), use of mapping technology (infrared theodolite and global positioning systems, with an overview of geographic information systems), working with topographic maps and aerial photos, recording of geological profiles, recovery and preparation of fossils, and basic identification of animal fossils and stone tools. This one credit course will be taught by Dr. Lee Berger and qualified faculty assistants. Dr. Berger is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke, and is the director of the Palaeoanthropology Unit for Research and Exploration of the Bernard Price Institute of Palaeontology at the University of the Witwatersrand. All instruction will be conducted in the field.
(NS) NS, R.
Schedule dependent on that of the Duke University Paleoanthropology Field School.
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Syllabus from a previous year (somewhat different than 2005)
