Write a paper for an art history class that focuses on archeological sites.
You will write an organized essay with an argument by choosing three different themes or three aspects of the
same theme to explore in your essay about how the site connects to at least two readings that we did.
You must create an organized argument with a key point that connects your approach to or your understanding
of the project and the object/site through at least two readings (Renfrew and Bahn on the Archaeology of
Religion can be one of them) that we did over the course of the semester. Which readings influenced your
thinking on the object/site and your topic? Which readings gave you an example that you used to be a scholar of
this site? Which readings helped you learn a method of writing or an approach to a relevant culture that was new
and enlightening?
Example: “My approach to understanding the original form of the mosque site at Aleppo and the subsequent
partisan attacks on it borrowed especially from the reading by Smith in the attention to religious heritage over
time and to Rashad in the search for mosque models in her analysis.”
You should use footnotes to refer to the source from which you gained the info, whether they are authors that
you found or from sources provided in class. If ever in doubt about whether to have a footnote, consider that
any material that you did not know and that is an original idea of the author should be cited.
In a logical and orderly fashion, you will present your argument.
1) Paragraph one will introduce the site and topic you chose and end with your thesis sentence about how
it relates to at least two of our class readings.
2) Paragraphs following will analyze those aspects of your site that were influenced by the readings as you
describe in your thesis.
a. Note that your discussion should be in-depth, descriptive, and detailed. Support your ideas with
details from the texts and from your own project to explain.
b. You should have a logical progression of ideas with orderly transitions from one idea/paragraph
to the next.
c. You should include images from your poster, with possible additional images, in your paper to
support your ideas. Please label your images and provide figure numbers in the text.
3) Your concluding paragraph will restate the thesis.
I will attach the two reading that need to be referenced in the assignment.
