Week 1: Introduction

                What is medieval archaeology? History and archaeology

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 13-28
  
• see also a short essay on artifacts

                History of archaeology.The Three-Age system, stratigraphy, and typology

• Greene 1-49
• see a brief presentation of Thomsen's Three-Age system, as well as a short biography of Gustaf Kossinna
•  see also pictures of the Museum of Natural History in Oxford (facade; interior with Victorian, neo-Gothic architecture, the evolutionary displays for fish and elephants, and the commemorative plaque of the historical Huxley-Willberforce debate on evolutionism; see also General Pitt Rivers's collection of rifles, as well as the display showing the evolution of bull-roarers and human head-trophies
• see a short biography of Augustus H. Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers