Material Culture in the History Classroom: Techniques and Methods
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Ancient History
Serena Connolly, Organizer
Programs on the History and Discovery Channels and most recently Google Earth’s Ancient Rome layer are helping to popularize the disciplines of history and archaeology and draw students to study of the ancient world. Never has material culture been more popular. This panel aims to explore the ways in which studies of material culture can be integrated into courses on ancient history and also to bring technological and methodological advances in archaeology to the attention of teachers of ancient history. Panelists’ discussions will draw examples from funerary practices, cartography, architecture and ceramics.
- Timothy Gregory, The Ohio State University, Field Archaeology, Live in the Classroom (20 mins.)
- Darby Scott, Bryn Mawr College, History and Archaeology: The Dilemma of Republican Rome (20 mins.)
- Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Calibrating Cartographic Horizons for Today’s Ancient History Classes (20 mins.)
- Sarah Morris, University of California at Los Angeles, Beyond the Tyranny of the Text: Complicating the Historical Record with Material Culture (20 mins.)
- Susan Alcock, Brown University, Respondent (15 mins.)