ANTH 341 Zooarchaeology Assignment
I. Format
A.
Title page with name
B.
Double spaced
C.
One inch margins
D.
5-6 pages would be a good average, up to 10
pages max.
E.
Literature cited page
II. Content
A.
Introduce topic and general background.
B.
What is the relevance of this topic to zooarchaeological study?
C.
What methods (if any) were used in analysis?
D.
How could the information in your paper be
applied to zooarchaeology-i.e. studying a particular site
type, culture, time period?
III. How do we cite?
A.
Use a consistent method for citations and
literature cited (MLA, American Antiquity).
B.
Make sure you cite any references when you
use them in the text.
C. Direct
Quotes
1.
example: "blah blah"(Leakey 1979:356)
a.
Leakey is the last name of the author
b.
1979 is the year that the
article/book was published
c.
356 is the page number from
which the quote came
d.
Quotation marks around the
direct quote
D. Someone
else's idea
1.
example single reference single
author:
blah blah
blah (Leakey 1979)
2.
example single reference multiple
authors
blah blah
blah (Leakey et
al. 1979)
3.
example multiple references
blah blah
blah (Leakey 1979, Johanson
1982)
E. Web Site
1.
Site the author if there is
one, the date of the site, and the title of the site
2.
The address of the site,
i.e. http://www.anthro.com/
IV. Literature Cited
A.
You must cite any references used in your
paper, even if it is not a direct quote or paraphrase-if it is not your own
personal research-Cite it!
B.
Once you have cited them they need to go in a
section at the end of your paper titled Literature Cited.
C.
Literature Cited
will follow the format you
have chosen; the following is in American
Antiquity style.
1.
journal article:
Feldman, Douglas A.
1985 AIDS and Social Change. Human Organization. 44(4):343-47
2.
edited volume:
Ferguson, Charles A.
1964 Diglossia. In, Language
in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and
Anthropology, edited by Dell Hymes, pp.
429-39. New York: Harper and Row.
3.
book:
Anderson, Richard L.
1990 Calliope's
Sisters: A Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
V. The Paper Itself
A.
Givens
1.
typed and correct spelling--use
spell-check!
2.
proper grammar, complete
sentences, paragraph style
3.
go get help if you need it, these
are things I can't teach you here
a.
Writing Center-Room 101-S of
Alumni Hall.
b.
I would be happy to
help-come see me during office hours, or make an appointment.
B. Write drafts!
1. Introduction
a.
has your thesis statement
b.
outlines what you will be
covering in the text
2.
body of paper
a.
each paragraph should follow
your outline
b.
if your outline is well written
then your paper will flow
c.
you are really turning a
good outline into sentence form
d.
create a topic sentence for
each paragraph
3.
conclusion and discussion
VII. Grading
A.
Have you followed my guidelines for length
and references?
B.
What I have listed are the minimum
requirements (except for length).
1.
going beyond the minimum is
always a good thing (except for length).
C.
largest portion of grade will go to content
1.
have you covered the topic well?
2.
have you fully answered the
questions?
D.
a small portion of the grade will go to
things like grammar, punctuation, and spelling, only in so far as if gross
errors take away from the content of the paper.
A.
I will begin accepting papers on April 24 up
to May 6. If you turn it in early, you
have the option of my editing it and you can rewrite for a better grade. Papers turned in on the last day will not
have this option.
B.
No late papers will be accepted!
XI. Potential Topics
A.
Select an area of research you
are interested in-seasonality, mortality, hunting techniques, etc. and pursue
that for a particular species or culture.
B.
Select an animal species and
investigate how that animal was used prehistorically or historically. For example, the role of white-tailed deer in
prehistoric
C. Methodology-interpreting assemblages, comparative skeletal processing techniques, quantification, taphonomy, etc.
D. Come see me-I have lots more!