Module 6: When were the Egyptian pyramids built (and were aliens involved)?

Module 6: When were the Egyptian pyramids built (and were aliens involved)?

Overview

We will use archaeological data to investigate the chronology of the Pyramids, who built them, and why it is important to modern society to have reliable information about it. 

Objectives

  • Understand how archaeologists measure the age of things using radiocarbon dating
  • Calibrate radiocarbon ages into calendar years, and compute a summed probability distribution on a set of ages
  • Import data into R, clean it with string manipulation, wrangle it with dplyr functions, and visualise using density plots in an R Markdown document
  • Analyse and report on a dataset of radiocarbon ages from famous Egyptian pyramids

Readings

Go to Perusall to access the readings and video to prepare for class (FAQ on Perusall)

Lectures

Lecture slides will be available here after class.

Discussions

Discuss this module and ask questions on Discord (contact us for an invite). When asking for help with code, please share a screenshot (FAQ: how to take a screenshot) 

Assignments

Assignments for this module are:

    • Before Thursday's class complete 6.1 and 6.2 on Perusall
    • Before Tuesday's class complete 6.3 and 6.4 on Perusall
    • Poll Everywhere responses during scheduled class time
    • Complete the Module 6 Lab report, you can work on this online in RStudio on JupyterHub. We will demonstrate how to do the lab in class on Tuesday, then you will submit your completed lab before the following Tuesday's class. You have one week to complete the lab after seeing the demonstration in class.