Dates |
Topic |
what should I be doing? |
due dates |
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20 Jan
WED |
Welcome and introduction to class. (SI/KMP)
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22 Jan
FRI |
King Tut and spectacle. Consuming archaeology (KMP)
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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"
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Last day to register for class. Reading Notes for Mace, Gardiner, and Nat Geo 1923 due in class
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25 Jan
MON |
The view over the canyon rim: Discovering the North American Southwest (SI)
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Read: Roberts 1996, Prologue. Find Readings in Blackboard under "Course Materials"
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Reading Notes for Roberts due in class
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27 Jan
WED |
Old World archaeology: origins to the present (KMP)
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Read Bahn pp. 1-12 (this is your textbook); Read Frere and CJThomsen (in Blackboard)
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Reading Notes for Frere and CJTHomsen due
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29 Jan
FRI |
New World archaeology: origins to the present (SI)
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Bahn pp. 12-16; 80-92 (your textbook), Read Flannery: Golden Marshalltown (click link)
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Reading Notes for Flannery due
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1 Feb
MON |
How do we find archaeological sites? (KMP/SI)
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Reading Notes for Arch Inst. of America due
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3 Feb
WED |
Discussion of the Discovery Research Design project and Book project (SI)
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Quiz 1, In-class Print out and bring your Notes to class
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5 Feb
FRI |
How old is it? Some dating techniques. (KMP/SI)
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Bahn pp. 17-23; Douglass 1929, Talkative Tree-Rings (Blackboard)
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Reading Notes for Douglass 1929 due
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8 Feb
MON |
Excavating a site: methods and techniques (KMP). (Ingram out of town)
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Watch film: Time Team America: Range Creek Utah
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Reading Notes for film due
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10 Feb
WED |
Human remains: the archaeology of us (KMP)
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Bahn pp. 31-43
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12 Feb
FRI |
What is science? What is belief? (SI/KMP)
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Reading Notes for "Why do Many..." due
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15 Feb
MON |
Discovering why things change over time (SI)
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Bahn pp. 69-79
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17 Feb
WED |
Family reunion (SI)
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Watch film: Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
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Reading Notes for Leaky film due.
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19 Feb
FRI |
Discussion of Book Project
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22 Feb
MON |
Discovering the earliest art and symbols (KMP)
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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.
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24 Feb
WED |
Interpreting the earliest art and symbols (KMP)
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Read: Cyranoski, World's Oldest Art
Read: Art, Shamanism, and Entoptic Images (Blackboard) |
Reading Notes for Cyranoski and Art, Shamanism...due.
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26 Feb
FRI |
Interpreting the earliest art and symbols (KMP)
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Read: Lewis-Willams & Clottes (Blackboard);
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Reading Notes for Lewis-Williams due
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29 Feb
MON |
Peopling of the New World (SI)
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Read: Ancient Migration
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Reading Notes on Ancient Migration due.
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2 Mar
WED |
Agriculture: Origins of agriculture: Jarmo Project; recognizing domestication archaeologically (KMP)
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Read: Braidwood, Agricultural Revolution
Read: Abu Hureyra Read: Farming Comes to Europe |
Reading Notes on Braidwood, Abu Hureyra, and Farming Comes to Europe due
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4 Mar
FRI |
Class will not meet at 1:00 pm.
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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.
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7 Mar
MON |
Final remarks on Old World agriculture (KMP); New World agricultural beginnings (SEI); Quiz.
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Bahn pp. 58-68; Read Larson (2014), Current Perspectives and the Future of Domestication Studies
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9 Mar
WED |
Social evolution: Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States (SI)
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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.
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11 Mar
FRI |
Defining and characterizing "empire and "civilization" (KMP)
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Read: Taxonomy of Polities (Blackboard)
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Reading Notes on Taxonomy due.
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21 Mar
MON |
Definitions of "civilization" (KMP)
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23 Mar
WED |
Mesopotamia and Chaco (KMP, SI)
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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.
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25 Mar
FRI |
Discussion of Research Project
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Come prepared to ask questions about your Discovery Research Design.
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28 Mar
MON |
Troy, Homer and the Trojan War (KMP)
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Read: Schliemann, Homeric Troy (Blackboard)
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Reading Notes on Schliemann due.
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30 Mar
WED |
Mycenae: pre-classical civilization in Greece (KMP)
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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
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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
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Reading Notes on Bingham due. Last day to earn the extra credit points for the Meet the Instructor activity
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4 Apr
MON |
Crete: Europe’s first civilization (KMP)
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Read: Evans, Minoan Civilization at the Palace of Knossos (Blackboard)
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Reading Notes on Evans, Minoa, Knossos due.
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6 Apr
WED |
Egyptian civilization: survey (KMP)
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Read: Pyramid Effect and Napoleon's Campaign
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8 Apr
FRI |
Class will not meet.
Ingram and Petruso out of town. |
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11 Apr
MON |
Deciphering scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphics and Mycenaean Linear B (KMP)
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Read: Egyptian scripts
Read: Linear B scripts |
Separate Reading Notes for Egyptian scripts and Linear B scripts due.
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13 Apr
WED |
Peer review and question and answer regarding the Discovery Research Design
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Bring you completed Discovery Design (without your name on it) to receive comments from other students.
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15 Apr
FRI |
Archaeology, ethnicity and polity: A case study (KMP)
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Read: Marea
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18 Apr
MON |
The archaeology of the mind (KMP)
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Watch video: Gobekli Tepe (click here)
Read: Renfrew Cognitive Archaeology |
Separate Reading Notes on Gobekli Tepe and Renfrew due.
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20 Apr
WED |
"Discovery" of the New World (SI)
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Reading Notes on Excerpt due
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22 Apr
FRI |
"Discovery" of the New World: clash of cultures (SI)
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Reading Notes on Requerimiento due
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25 Apr
MON |
Vikings in the New World (KMP)
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Read: Ingstad Viking Ruins (Blackboard)
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Reading Notes on Ingstad due
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27 Apr
WED |
Discovering past climates (SI)
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Reading Notes on Discovery of Global Warming due
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29 Apr
FRI |
What's left to discover? (SI)
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Reading Notes on More Archaeological Finds... due
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2 May
MON |
What do I do when I find an artifact? (SI)
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Read: Bahn pp. 93-103 and Childs: Finders Keepers
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Reading Notes on Childs, Finders Keepers due
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4 May
WED |
Archaeology of the deep future: Sandia report (KMP)
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6 May
FRI |
What have we learned? Summary ... (SI/KMP)
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Final Exam time
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Class will not meet
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No Final Exam; instead the Book Project is due at the Final Exam time.
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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.”
