AROL 101 Final, Fall 2008

ARCHAEOLOGY 101 Introduction to Archaeology Final Examination [ Date: Feb. 04,2009 « Time: TWO hours e_ Instructor.: H. Seeden I Identifications 50% Time: 6o minutes Do you recognize the people and scenes illustrated overleaf? e Who are the persons, and what are the sites and artifacts represented? « What does each image tell you about people and their lives and activities at the periods concerned? ¢ Please, place each image in its time frame and tell the story. Il Essay question 50 % Time: 60 minutes Archaeologists do not just dig up things. They help us rediscover life in the past and — learn about the concerns of those who came before us and are often surprisingly relevant today. Between 1994 and 1996, we excavated a street with numbered shops, and thousands of artifacts of Roman-Byzantine Beirut, below what has now become the newly built ‘2008’ Souks area of downtown. What do you think about the proposed reconstruction of a small part of the Byzantine shopping-street in downtown? Why did we choose a ‘laundry’, a combined perfumeferbal medicine and glass shop, and another dealing with ancient ‘money and banking’? UI: a6 as & e oY ibaa heal bets pl 8! Be Pinsei 9 Cami: a BA Cet a Meth 1d