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            due dates



20 Jan
WED
Welcome and introduction to class. (SI/KMP)

22 Jan
FRI
King Tut and spectacle. Consuming archaeology (KMP)
Read: Mace's account (click link); Gardiner's account;  and the National Geographic story (in Blackboard) with file name: Nat Geo 1923, At Tomb of Tutankhamun. Create one Reading Note per article. Find Readings in Blackboard under "Course Materials"
Last day to register for class. Reading Notes for Mace, Gardiner, and Nat Geo 1923 due in class

25 Jan
MON
The view over the canyon rim: Discovering the​ North American Southwest (SI)
Read: Roberts 1996, Prologue.  Find Readings in Blackboard under "Course Materials"
Reading Notes for Roberts due in class

27 Jan
WED
Old World archaeology: origins to the present (KMP)
Read Bahn pp. 1-12 (this is your textbook); Read Frere and CJThomsen (in Blackboard)
Reading Notes for Frere and CJTHomsen due

29 Jan
FRI
New World archaeology: origins to the present (SI)
Bahn pp. 12-16; 80-92 (your textbook)​, Read Flannery: Golden Marshalltown (click link)
Reading Notes ​for Flannery due

1 Feb
MON
How do we find archaeological sites? (KMP/SI)
Read: Archaeological Institute of America, bullet points 6, 7, 8.  
Reading Notes  for Arch Inst. of America due    

3 Feb
WED
Discussion of the Discovery Research Design project and Book project  (SI)
Quiz 1, In-class  Print out and bring your Notes to class 

5 Feb
FRI
How old is it? Some dating techniques. ​ (KMP/SI)
Bahn pp. 17-23; Douglass 1929, Talkative Tree-Rings (Blackboard)
Reading Notes for Douglass 1929 due

8 Feb
MON
Excavating a site: methods and techniques  (KMP). (Ingram out of town)
Watch film: Time Team America: Range Creek Utah
Reading Notes ​ for film due 

10 Feb
WED
Human remains: the archaeology of us (KMP)
Bahn pp. 31-43

12 Feb
FRI
What is science? What is belief? (SI/KMP)
Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? 
Reading Notes for "Why do Many..." due 


15 Feb
MON
Discovering why things change over time (SI)
Bahn pp. 69-79

17 Feb
WED
Family reunion (SI)
Watch film: Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
Reading Notes for Leaky film due. 

19 Feb
FRI
Discussion of Book Project
Quiz 2, In-class


22 Feb
MON
Discovering the earliest art and symbols (KMP)
Watch: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Blackboard) 
Read: National Geographic, Lascaux (Blackboard)
Read: Breuil, Origin of Art (Blackboard)
Read: Bahn pp. 44-57
Reading Notes for Herzog film due. No reading notes for the other readings. 

24 Feb
WED
Interpreting the earliest art and symbols (KMP)
Read: Cyranoski, World's Oldest Art
Read: Art, Shamanism, and Entoptic Images (Blackboard)
Reading Notes for Cyranoski and Art, Shamanism...due. 

26 Feb
FRI
Interpreting the earliest art and symbols (KMP)  
Read: Lewis-Willams & Clottes (Blackboard); 

Reading Notes ​for Lewis-Williams due

29 Feb
MON
​Peopling of the New World (SI) ​​
Read: Ancient Migration
Reading Notes on Ancient Migration due. 

2 Mar
WED
Agriculture: Origins of agriculture: Jarmo Project; recognizing domestication archaeologically (KMP)
Read: Braidwood, Agricultural Revolution
Read: Abu Hureyra
​Read: Farming Comes to Europe

Reading Notes on Braidwood, Abu Hureyra, and Farming Comes to Europe due

4 Mar
FRI
Class will not meet at 1:00 pm.  
Attend lecture (if possible) of Dr. Douglas Owsley on "Seriously Amazing Moments in Smithsonian Forensic Anthropology and Skeletal Biology" in University Hall, Room 108 at noon on Friday.   




7 Mar
MON
Final remarks on Old World agriculture (KMP); New World agricultural beginnings (SEI); Quiz.  
Bahn pp. 58-68;  Read Larson (2014), Current Perspectives and the Future of Domestication Studies
Quiz 3, In-class:
Reading Notes
 on Larson due


9 Mar
WED
Social evolution: Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States (SI)
Read: Diamond, Worst Mistake in History of Human Race;  
Read: Service (1975), Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States (Blackboard);
​Read: Stonehenge (Images of the Past) pp. 515-522 (Blackboard)
Reading Notes due on Diamond, Service, and Stonehenge due. 

11 Mar
FRI
​Defining and characterizing "empire and "civilization" (KMP)
Read: Taxonomy of Polities (Blackboard)
Reading Notes on Taxonomy due. 

21 Mar
MON
Definitions of "civilization" (KMP)

23 Mar
WED
Mesopotamia and Chaco (KMP, SI)
Read: Mesopotamia: The Rise of Cities;
Watch film, Chaco Legacy;​ sign in to your library account using your netid and password
Reading Notes on Chaco Legacy due. ​

25 Mar
FRI
Discussion of Research Project
Come prepared to ask questions about your Discovery Research Design. 
Quiz 4, In-class


28 Mar
MON
Troy, Homer and the Trojan War (KMP)
Read: Schliemann, Homeric Troy (Blackboard)
Reading Notes on Schliemann due. 

30 Mar
WED
Mycenae: pre-classical civilization in Greece (KMP)
Read: Price and Feinman, Mycenae (Blackboard)
Watch: The Palace and Grave Circle A, Mycenae 
Watch: The Treasury of Atreus 
Separate Reading Notes on Price and Feinman and each film may be submitted 

1 Apr
FRI
Empire: Inkan civilization and Empire (SI); 

Further discussion and Q & A on your Discovery Project Plan. 
Read: Bingham 1913, In the Wonderland of Peru
Reading Notes on Bingham due. Last day to earn the extra credit points for the Meet the Instructor activity

4 Apr
MON
Crete: Europe’s first civilization (KMP)
Read: Evans, Minoan Civilization at the Palace of Knossos (Blackboard)​
Reading Notes on Evans, Minoa, Knossos due. 

6 Apr
WED
Egyptian civilization: survey  (KMP)
Read: Pyramid Effect and Napoleon's Campaign
Quiz 5, In-class  
Separate Reading Notes on Pyramid Effect and Napoleon's Campaign due. 

8 Apr
FRI
Class will not meet. 
​Ingram and Petruso out of town. 

11 Apr
MON
Deciphering scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphics and Mycenaean Linear B (KMP)
Read: Egyptian scripts
Read: Linear B scripts
Separate Reading Notes for Egyptian scripts and Linear B scripts due. 

13 Apr
WED
Peer review and question and answer regarding the Discovery Research Design
Bring you completed Discovery Design (without your name on it) to receive comments from other students. 

15 Apr
FRI
Archaeology, ethnicity and polity: A case study (KMP)
Read: Marea
Reading Notes on Marea due. ​
Discovery Research Design due by 1 pm.

18 Apr
MON
The archaeology of the mind (KMP)
Watch video: Gobekli Tepe (click here)
Read: Renfrew Cognitive Archaeology
Separate Reading Notes ​on Gobekli Tepe and Renfrew due. 

20 Apr
WED
"Discovery" of the New World (SI) 
Read: Excerpt from A Voyage Long and Strange (click here) 
Reading Notes ​on Excerpt due

22 Apr
FRI
"Discovery" of the New World: clash of cultures (SI)
Read: Requerimiento
Not for points: Learn more about the Coronado expedition here. and here. 
Reading Notes ​on Requerimiento due

25 Apr
MON
Vikings in the New World (KMP)
Read: Ingstad Viking Ruins (Blackboard)
Reading Notes ​on Ingstad due

27 Apr
WED
Discovering past climates (SI)
Read: Discovery of Global Warming
Reading Notes ​on Discovery of Global Warming due

29 Apr
FRI
What's left to discover? (SI)
Read: More Archaeological Finds Coming Through Tech
Reading Notes ​on More Archaeological Finds... due

2 May
MON
What do I do when I find an artifact? (SI) 
Read: Bahn pp. 93-103 and Childs: Finders Keepers 
Reading Notes ​on Childs, Finders Keepers due

4 May
WED
Archaeology of the deep future: Sandia report (KMP)
Read: Architecture of Peril
​​Bahn pp. 104-112

Quiz 6, In-class
​
Reading Notes 
on Architecture of Peril due
 ​

6 May
FRI
​What have we learned? Summary ... (SI/KMP)

Final Exam time
Class will not meet
No Final Exam;  instead the Book Project is due at the Final Exam time. 
Book Project due;
9 May, 1:30 pm, upload to Blackboard

“As the instructor for this course, I reserve the right to adjust this schedule in any way that serves the educational needs of the students enrolled in this course. –Scott E. Ingram.” 
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