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KE816: Archaeometry (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10005501

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.
The course is offered in the first half of the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: klr@sdu.dk

Timetable
Group Type Day Time Classroom Weeks Comment
Common I Tuesday 10-12 U23A 6-10
Common I Tuesday 10-18 U48 12 Mundtlig eksamen
Common I Thursday 14-16 U23A 5-8
H1 TE Wednesday 12-14 U17 7-9,11
H1 TE Thursday 16-18 U23A 6
H1 TL Thursday 14-18 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 14 9 øvelseslab og CHART??s ?TL-LAB?
H1 TL Thursday 10-14 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 14 10 øvelseslab og CHART??s ?TL-LAB?
H1 TE Friday 10-12 U23A 6-8
H2 TL Wednesday 10-14 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 15 10 øvelseslab og CHART??s ?TL-LAB?
H2 TL Friday 10-14 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 15 9 øvelseslab og CHART??s ?TL-LAB?
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Comment:
Samlæses med KE520

Prerequisites:
Courses in fundamental chemistry (FF503 or KE501), physics (FF502 or the like), inorganic chemistry (KE528 or KE521) and physical chemistry (KE523) are expected. Courses in environmental Chemistry (KE507) and analytical Chemistry (KE530) are recommended.

Academic preconditions:
Students taking the course are expected to have passed basic courses i general, organic and inorganic chemistry as well as physics and physical chemistry. Furthermore, it is recommended that courses in an environmental chemistry and analytical chemistry have been taken.

Course introduction
To introduce students to the application of a range of analytical techniques and dating techniques. The dating techniques include methods that are used to date materials of archaeological, environmental and geological interest, including soils, peat, sediments, organic materials (e.g. bone, wood, and shells). The analytical techniques are used in dating and in determining provenances e.g. of objects of soils and other solid materials. To explain the relationship between such measurements and past environmental parameters and processes in the surrounding milieu (soil, water, air), including anthropogenic effects. To bring the students to a position, where they appreciate the influence of natural science, in particular physics and chemistry, on the professional and political perception of the cultural heritage of Denmark and the World.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the courses KE507 Environmental Chemistry and KE530 Quantitative Analytical Chemistry and constitutes the foundation for conducting a master thesis work.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:
  • give competence to partake in work situations where decisions are taken on problems about cultural heritage, as well as to partake in collaborations and discussions with humanists and politicians on cultural heritage politics.
  • give skills for the production and analysis of analytical chemical data, as well as to disseminate such data to peers and to the public.


Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:
  • apply a selection of chemical analytical techniques, and to interpret the data and their uncertainties
  • put environmental chemical data in perspective to the environmental exposures of the past
  • demonstrate experience with the formulation and presentation of chemical data
Subject overview
The following main topics are contained in the course:
The course deals largely with dating methods (e.g. radiocarbon and thermoluminescence including mass spectrometry and accelerator mass spectrometry), various ways to do provenance determination of soils (e.g. mass spectrometry, AAS and magnetic susceptibility), functional analysis, in situ measurements, and reconstruction of the climate and environmental state of the past. The content of the course builds on general analytical knowledge (provided e.g. in KE530 Analytical Chemistry) and applies several of the environmental principles (presented e.g. in KE507 Environmental Chemistry) including heavy metal pollution of lead and mercury. The course includes a laboratory exercise, where the students solve a practical archaeometric problem.
 


Literature
There isn't any litterature for the course at the moment.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
  1. Oral examination, external censorship and grading according to the 7-point grading scale. The examination will partly be based on lab report prepared by candidate. (5 ECTS). (10005502).


Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 24 hours
Skills training phase: 18 hours, hereof:
 - Laboratory exercises: 16 hours
 - Excursion: 2 hours

Educational activities
  • Laboratory exercise in the use of XRF
  • Laboratory exercise in the use of flame ionisation AAS
Educational form
The intro phase consists of lectures where dialog is primarily created by stops in the lecture and questions from the students. Here is given an introduction to the topics of the course and it is the way to achieve the competences as a supplement to the scientific papers, which the students are expected to read for themselves.
 
In the training phase are cultivated competences within the central parts of the course. The EX hours are based on work in study-groups centered on the production of small 10 minute power point shows. In the laboratory the students are working in teams of two with the practical exercises in archaeometry and analytical chemistry. 

In the study phase the students are expected to work independently with the scientific papers. Besides this the laboratory reports are central parts of the in the study phase. The students are expected to use part of the study phase to prepare themselves for the oral exam.
The course is expected to have an equal work load during the time it is running.       
 


Language
This course is taught in English, if international students participate. Otherwise the course is taught in Danish.

Remarks
The course is co-read with the corresponding bachelor course KE520 Archaeometry.
The course cannot be chosen by students who passed the course KE520

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
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