User:Bonhamme/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Archaeology of India


 * Article Evaluation
 * Weak intro that is one sentence and is not cited. The intro does not reference any information found later in the article. Neutral tone but missing content. Most facts are cited. Disorganized. Talk page suggests merging article with similar topic. Content is on topic. Larger section on history, small site section. could add sections on education, notable finds, notable people, etc. Citation links work and are up to date. Citations from reputable sites.


 * Sources
 * 1) Paddayya, K. "Theoretical Archaeology in India." A Companion to South Asia in the Past. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 437-49. Web.
 * 2) Michon, Daniel. Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India : History, Theory, Practice. 2015. Archaeology and Religion in South Asia. Web.
 * 3) Hazarika, Manjil. Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India. Delhi: Oxford UP, 2017. Web.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Archaeology of China


 * Article Evaluation
 * Out of date citations. Introduction does not cover all topics, only one. Missing information. Good topics but do not have much information under each topic. Most of the article is just links to other articles. Neutral tone. Talk page suggests merging with article of similar topic. History is over represented while institutions, finds, notable people, etc. are under represented. Organized well into subsections but needs a better introduction and several more subsections. Citation links work but need updating. Citations from reputable sites.


 * Sources
 * 1) Zheng, Dekun. Archaeology in China. Cambridge [England: W. Heffer, 1959. Print.
 * 2) Bar-Yosef, Ofer, and Wang, Youping. "Paleolithic Archaeology in China." Annual Review of Anthropology 41.1 (2012): 319-35. Web.
 * 3) Wei, Wang. "Sixty Years of Archaeology in New China." Chinese Archaeology 10.1 (2010): 1-5. Web.
 * 4) Kidder, Tristram R, and Liu, Haiwang. "Bridging Theoretical Gaps in Geoarchaeology: Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, and History in the Yellow River Valley, China." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9.8 (2017): 1585-602. Web.
 * 5) Liu, Li, and Chen, Xingcan. The Archaeology of China. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. Cambridge World Archaeology. Web.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Archaeological Ethics


 * Article Evaluation
 * Okay introduction. Introduction introduces some topics but leaves out others. Good sections but could use more. Missing information (laws in place, punishment, past ethics), neutral tone, all sections represented fairly equally, information is cited well, citations are up to date and links work, citations from reputable sites, sections organized well but needs more information, could include information on repatriation


 * Sources
 * 1) McNie, Elizabeth. "Archaeological Ethics." 1 (2015): 102-06. Web.
 * 2) Killion, Thomas W., and School for Advanced Research. Opening Archaeology : Repatriation's Impact on Contemporary Research and Practice. 1st ed. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2008. Print. School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Ser.
 * 3) Barilan, Y. Michael. "BODYWORLDS AND THE ETHICS OF USING HUMAN REMAINS: A PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION." Bioethics 20.5 (2006): 233-47. Web.
 * 4) The Dead and Their Possessions : Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice, edited by Cressida Fforde, et al., Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/lib/vcu/detail.action?docID=180437.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Prehistoric Archaeology


 * Article Evaluation
 * no sections, just one paragraph, disorganized, lots of up to date citations from reputable sites, citation links work, neutral tone, missing a lot of information


 * Sources
 * 1) Oland, Maxine, Hart, Siobhan M., and Frink, Liam. Decolonizing Indigenous Histories : Exploring Prehistoric / Colonial Transitions in Archaeology. Tucson: U of Arizona, 2012. Print. Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America.
 * 2) Besse, M, Fragnière, S, Müller, A, Piguet, M, Dubois, L, Miéville, D, Schoeb, S, and Schumacher, D. "Learning About Archaeology and Prehistoric Life." Science & Education 28.6 (2019): 759-95. Web.
 * 3) Liu, Li, and Chen, Xingcan. The Archaeology of China. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. Cambridge World Archaeology. Web.
 * 4) Veit, Ulrich. "Farewell to Antiquarianism. A New ‘grand Narrative’ for German-speaking Prehistoric Archaeology?" Archaeological Dialogues 24.1 (2017): 25-29. Web.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Paleoarchaeology


 * Article Evaluation
 * no sections, just one paragraph, missing information, needs expanding, very few citations, not the most reputable sites, has some history (needs section), has some sites, needs interesting finds, notable people and their contributions, subsections of paleoarchaeology, issues in paleoarchaeology, controversial on talk page


 * Sources
 * 1) De La Torre, Ignacio, Albert, Rosa M, Macphail, Richard, McHenry, Lindsay J, Pante, Michael C, Rodríguez-Cintas, Ágata, Stanistreet, Ian G, and Stollhofen, Harald. "The Contexts and Early Acheulean Archaeology of the EF-HR Paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)." Journal of Human Evolution 120 (2018): 274-97. Web.
 * 2) Rivera, Mario A. "Editorial - Paleo-climate, Archaeology and Human Interaction in Latin America." Quaternary International 505 (2019): 1-3. Web.
 * 3) Maysoon Al-Nahar, and Geoffrey A. Clark. "PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS in the Practice of Paleoarchaeology in Jordan." Near Eastern Archaeology 76.4 (2013): 196-203. Web.