TASC Ancient History Level 3 case studies
TASC Ancient History Level 3 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Ancient History Level 3 is a Tasmanian senior secondary course listed under the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification (TASC) system. This page is an independent study resource for students preparing for that course; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by TASC. The TASC Ancient History Level 3 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,722 words.
1The Waterlogged Granary: Reading a Silted Storage Pit
A riverside settlement has a rectangular mudbrick granary, 12 m by 8 m, built on a raised platform of packed clay. Excavation shows three phases.
561 words, about 3 min2Counting an Unwritten Population: The Terrace Houses of a Hill Town
A hill town occupies 9 hectares, of which 5.5 ha are built-up terraces, 2 ha are cisterns, courtyards, and streets, and 1.5 ha are steep slope unsuitable for housing. Survey recorded 140 ground-floor room units within the built-up area, but only 60 percent of the town has been intensively surveyed; the rest was sampled by transects giving a density estimate of 22 rooms per hectare.
534 words, about 3 min3Bronze, Tin, and a Broken Supply Line
A coastal workshop produced bronze tools for about 180 years. Slag and crucible fragments show two alloy recipes.
561 words, about 3 min4Dating a Destruction Layer Without a King List
A citadel mound shows a burnt destruction layer 0.4 m thick containing collapsed mudbrick, carbonized roof beams, and smashed storage jars. Below it, floors contain pottery of a style conventionally dated 1450-1350 BCE.
550 words, about 3 min5Ration Tablets and the Size of a Palace Workforce
A palace archive yielded 320 administrative tablets from a single room, of which 90 are legible ration records. They list workers by category: 40 men receiving 2 sila of barley daily, 25 women receiving 1.5 sila, and 15 apprentices receiving 1 sila.
516 words, about 3 min