Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to evaluate dating methods for specific prehistoric materials.
• Students will be able to evaluate the ethics and legality of unauthorized excavation, collection, display or sale of artifacts, especially from Native American graves.
• Students will be able to interpret subsistence strategies and sociopolitical structures of hypothetical ancient cultures.
• Students will be able to identify and evaluate pseudoscientific interpretations of the past by comparing them with relevant information in the textbook.
• Students will be able to define archaeology as part of anthropology (not the study of dinosaurs).
• Students will be able to differentiate among great ancient cultures by recognizing key artifacts, written languages, and monuments.
• Students will be able to apply the different theories about proposed routes and dates of prehistoric migrations into the New World and illustrate these on a map.
• Students will be able to identify cultural milestones such as ancient stone tool-making techniques and place them in chronological order.
• Students will be able to illustrate the location of ancient cultures and sites on a world map.