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How Do We Know about the Human Past?
- What is cosmopolitan archaeology? Provide two detailed examples in your response.
- What are some of the challenges faced by archaeologists working today while doing fieldwork and/or conducting research about past societies?
- What is the difference between gender archaeology and feminist archaeology?
- Discuss two types of technologies that archaeologists use in the process of finding sites/conducting surveys and/or excavation.
- Who should own the past? What are some best practices for engaging with concerned communities?
- Why is plundering the past a concern for the international community?
- How can looking at the past help us understand future concerns?
- Why is looting such a problem for archaeology?
- What role can Indigenous ways of knowing play in assisting archaeologists in understanding the past?
- What sorts of questions have guided archaeology over the past hundred years? Why is it important that these questions have changed?