For the second essay assignment, you will discuss what archaeologists know about

For the second essay assignment, you will discuss what archaeologists know about early agriculture by analyzing one of these two notable archaeological sites:
Guilá Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Tell Abu Hureyra (Raqqa Governorate, Syria)
Use specific details about your chosen site to illustrate how archaeologists have learned about early agricultural societies. Your essay must include an introduction, body, and conclusion. Introduction
In your introduction, include a thesis statement that explains why your site is important to understanding early agriculture and how we know. Introduce the subject of your paper and make sure to include a robust thesis statement explaining the following:
What are your goals in the paper?
What are you setting out to accomplish?
Explain why your site is important to understanding the development of agriculture and how archaeologists know this.
Discuss what archaeologists know, using specific examples that illustrate how archaeologists have reached an understanding of the development of agriculture in humanity’s past. Refer to information learned from key archaeological projects from one of the two sites listed, providing specific, material examples of data and the specific analytical methods that were used.
Body
Please address the following questions in the main body of your essay:
What evidence from your site was important for understanding early agriculture?
Laboratory analyses:How old is your site, and how was it dated?
What type(s) of laboratory analysis(es) were conducted?
What did the analytical result(s) indicate?
How did archaeologists combine different lines of evidence from your site to learn about early agriculture?
Why is this research and its conclusions important? How is it relevant today?
This list is intended to get you thinking about how archaeologists know and reconstruct past events based on data from the archaeological record. Be sure to include specific examples and details showing how archaeologists have addressed this topic at your site.
Conclusion
Highlight how what you presented in the body of your essay ties in with your thesis statement and your introduction.
Length
1000-1300 words: The word count does NOT include the heading or bibliography.
Sources and Citations
At minimum, you must use the following sources:
Three [3] sources from class (any combination of lectures, films, and textbooks)
Three [3] scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources outside of course-provided materialThese sources may come from the same author (e.g., you may cite two different articles written by the same author discussing your site). Examples of scholarly sources include:articles published in an academic journal
books
book chapters
Written scholarly sources must be peer reviewed. Google Scholar (scholar.google.comLinks to an external site.) is an excellent place to start looking for information about your site.
Web pages do not count as one of the three outside scholarly sources. In particular, do not cite Wikipedia, Britannica, or other popular web sources. Also avoid using journalistic articles, such as Science News or Nature News. Although this type of article is well researched, they do not qualify as scholarly sources for the purposes of this paper. However, they do usually provide a link to the actual scholarly publication and so can be useful in tracking down sources.
Include in-text citations and a bibliography using Chicago Author-Date citation style. Start the bibliography on a new page after your essay.
Along with your essay, upload pdfs of the scholarly references you used (not including the textbooks or videos – only scholarly articles your research is based on).
Format
Include a heading with your name, course, section, date, and essay title.
Include a bibliography of all of the sources used in your essay. Start the bibliography on a separate page after your essay.
Use 1-inch margins and a standard 12pt font such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri.
Double-space your essay. The bibliography may be double-spaced or single-spaced.
Include page numbers at either the top or bottom of each page.
Choice of Site
Pick one of the following sites for your essay:
Guilá Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Tell Abu Hureyra (Raqqa Governorate, Syria)
To be honest I couldn’t find much information from my lectures and actual class material. The lecture I attached is all the information I could find from the course and there is also this link that was given which mentions Guila Naquitz https://theconversation.com/was-agriculture-the-gr… Don’t worry about meeting the source requirements. If you want to just use one source from my class, than make up with it by using more outside sources please. There were other lectures I could potentially add also, but the file size was too big so I could only send this one. Thank you so much.