As promised, here is the info for the course wiki (http://classwiki.matrix.msu.edu) and for the archaeological site report.
Firs, the guidelines for the archaeological site report. Generally speaking, I would like it to include the following sections/content:
- Intro
- Introduction to location, geography, geology, setting, etc.
- Discussion of excavations – both past and present
- Results and significance of excavations
- Conclusion – importance of site & excavations, how it fits into overall egyptian archaeology (and related to other similar sites), etc.
In terms of sources, I far prefer archaeological and egyptological sources (articles, books, book chapters, websites, etc written by actual archaeologists and egyptologists) as opposed to sources that write about the site from a generally uninformed or casual perspective. I don’t care whether the sources are digital or physical. Sources such as wikipedia, about.com, dictionary.com, etc, etc, etc are not not acceptable (wikipedia is always a good place to start, but it isn’t an acceptable authoritative source). I would suggest looking to Google books as they seem to have digitized a lot of the early (early 20th century) Egpyptian archaeological sources.
Also (as I said in last week’s weekly intro video), I’ve prepared a short screencast tutorial on working with the course wiki. You can find it in the Tutorial Videos section of the course website.
I also promised a handy-dandy guide/cheat sheet for wiki formatting:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Its also likely that you’ll be including images in your site report (remember, images have to be cited as well). Here is an intro on how you can do that: