A useful tool, perhaps, as we near the end of the summer

Hey Everyone!


As we're starting to get near to the end of the summer, I'm beginning to think about a task Lisa Young, the undergraduate thesis wonder woman for archaeology, set to me and the others in my cohort: drawing out a concept map for our projects. 


Here's the description of the task, from Lisa herself:


Put a general word or phrase that sums up your research topic on one side of the paper and a word or phrase that summarizes the type of information you are collecting at the other side and write down all the concepts and/or references that you think will be important to connect them.  Think about how you will justify why your case studies are important for answering the research question(s) you are developing and why the research is important in the area where you are working.  This concept map is meant to be useful for you so you can organize it in whatever way helps you think about the connection between your general research questions and your data – think connection is one of the difficult aspects of archaeology and research in general.


I thought I'd share this idea with everyone because I like thinking visually and I'm assuming others do to, and I anticipate this being a useful tool in terms of summing up what research I've done so far for my project and where the holes are that I still need to fill in. 


I thought it would maybe be cool (if other people are interested in this) to post our concept maps on the blog once created to see how others are conceptualizing their research, theories, and general project. It might be an interesting experiment in the efforts of interdisciplinarity. Just a thought. 


See y'all soon!