Welcome to the MATRIX Project.
This is a website for people who teach archaeology.
This website was designed as a source of information, ideas, and course materials for college and university professors in the United States who teach undergraduate archaeology.
This website is designed to accommodate many levels of student participation and competence.
This website was created by 30 archaeologists committed to Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the XXIst Century.
This website provides complete course materials for 8 (soon to be 16) undergraduate archaeology courses.
This website offers materials for different types of courses.
The courses on this website are based on the Seven Principles for Curriculum Reform devised by the Society for American Archaeology’s Task Force on Curriculum.
This website is designed to answer the needs of a new generation of students who face a new set of challenges in the twenty-first century.
This website is an ongoing project: you are invited to contribute and to critique.
This website can be searched topically.
This website supports a set of modular classes that can be assembled in many ways.
This website was designed to address the current needs of archaeologists teaching and training in the United States, but the editors and designers are eager for feedback from other nations.
This website incorporates some traditional courses and some courses that use pedagogical innovations to improve student learning.
This website offers competing approaches to teaching controversial topics.
This MATRIX project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
This website is sponsored by the Society for American Archaeology.
The program director and web page editor is K. Anne Pyburn.