Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets by Susan E. Alcock:
This is a MOOC (massive open online course) from coursera.org about archaeology. It is an 8 week long course and starts in June of 2013. Susan E. Alcock, Brown University, is teaching the course. Here is Susan E. Alcock’s syllabus:
Week One: How can you get hurt doing archaeology?
Week Two: Is there really anything left to find? (Yes, but…)
Week Three: So how do you find things? Archaeology ≠ just digging
Week Four: How do you get a date? (and why you need them)
Week Five: Digging people: Archaeology as CSI?
Week Six: Telling stories: a few case studies
Week Seven: Where does archaeology happen? Who can play?
Week Eight: Who owns the past?