[Coursera] Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets torrent

ARCHAEOLOGY'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
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Taught by Sue Alcock
Published by Brown University and Coursera
Compiled by the Free Library and Uploaded by rndNbr in April 2014

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This course includes the video lectures (MP4), their subtitles (SRT), and transcripts (TXT).

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This is version 002 of this course. It ended in March/April 2014.

Admit it — you wanted to be an archaeologist when you grew up... This course builds on that enthusiasm, while radically expanding your notions about just what archaeology is and just what archaeologists do.

In this class, we will ask and answer a series of questions about the role and practice of archaeology in the world today. If archaeologists are trained to investigate the past, what is left for us to study? Who gets to be an archaeologist? How and why do archaeologists hunt for “treasures”, and what do we do once we’ve discovered them? What can we know, and not know, about people in the past? What do archaeologists know about the past that most people would never guess – and why aren’t we telling you? Why are people entirely willing to murder each other over the fate of archaeological sites? Are Real Men alone capable of discovering the truth behind all this?
Archaeology famously involves getting dirty in the line of duty. Students will experience its hands-on nature, through the use of numerous exercises and archaeological case studies. But there are other ‘dirty little secrets’ to learn about the field: not least how the stories archaeologists tell about the past have been used and abused, for purposes both good and bad. Our goal by the end of the course is to have you ‘thinking like an archaeologist’ and fully aware of the often-fraught politics of doing archaeology around the globe.

More information about this course is available at https://coursera.org/course/secrets