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Anth 3618-001 Ancient Middle America

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The Maya 7th Ed. is currently available online from about $16.47 new / $8.43 used(+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25)

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assignments summary

The Maya (7th ed.)Michael D. Coe

(NY: Thames and Hudson,2005)

Mexico (6th ed.)Michael D. Coe and Rex Koontz

(NY: Thames and Hudson,2008)

8-Deer, Mixtec LeaderTula, Hidalgo, Toltec Capital

Olmec, Mexico

Tikál, Guatemala


Copán, Honduras

Tula, Hidalgo, Toltec CapitalAztec Sunstone

Spirits of the Jaguar

Clovispoint


textbooks for the coursegeneral textbook information


Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4

Martha,the last

passengerpigeon inthe world,d. 1914,"alone in

captivity ina cage at

theCincinnati

Zoo"

5 6 7 Week 01>> Day 01

8 9 Week 01>> Day 02

10 11

U.S.A LaborDay

Holiday

AncientMiddle

America:Introduction

handout: "Syllabusfor Fall

2010"(Calendar)

handout:Anthropology and Its

Parts

slides:Introduction

slides:Main Characteristics

of Anthropology—the fields of

generalanthropology

—culture as aprimary concept

—comparativemethodas majorapproach

—holism as aprimarytheoretical goal

—fieldwork as aprimary researchtechnique

video:Woman ofChamula

(14 min., 1969, VC128)

viewing guide

assignment:Mexico, 7-17,

238-242

Buddy Holly'sBirthday

AncientMiddle

America:Orientation

handout:Map -- Major

Political Divisions


ArchaeologicalSites

video:Sentinels of

Silence(19 min., 1990,

VC 1611)viewing guide

slides:Orientation

slides:"Other

ImportantTerms"

slides:Units ofAnalysis

slides:Three MajorPerennialDebates

assignment:Mexico, 18-25

and look attable on 236



12 13 14 Week 02>> Day 03

15 16 Week 02>> Day 04

17 18

Mesoamerica:The Area and

its People


ArchaeologicalPeriods (Timeline)

EthnographicAnalogy:

Rural-UrbanPatterns in

CentralHighlandMexico

(introduction, as timepermits)

slides:—Compound of the

Nine Brothers,Nuevo Leon(Detailed NuevoLeon map)

—San Luis Potosi,SLP(Detailed SanLuis Potosi map)

—Central HighlandMexico:Tepeapulco,Hidalgo(Detailed Hidalgomap)

—Rural VillagePatterns in thestate of Hidalgo(Detailed Hidalgomap)

assignment:The Maya, 7-10,

10-29

Mesoamerica:The Area and

its People

video:"The Fifth Worldof the Aztecs"

(60 min., 1997,VC 3403-4)viewing guide

assignment:The Maya, 29-40;

look over pp.249-253



19 20 21 Week 03>> Day 05

22 23 Week 03>> Day 06

24 25

Who Werethe First

Americans?

Assignment Review:

Term Paper

slides:Coming toAmerica

video:ScientificAmericanFrontiers:

"Coming intoAmerica," Alan

Alda(60 min., 2004,

DVD 145)viewing guide

slides:Major features

of natural areas


Who Werethe First

Americans?

video:The Search for

AncientAmericans

(57 min., 1988,CC, VC 1299)viewing guide

slides:Coming toAmerica

slides:Lithic

slides:Archaic

assignment:The Maya,

40-55

26 27 28 Week 04>> Day 07

29 30 Week 04>> Day 08

AmericanArchaeology

Basic Termsand

Concepts inAmerican

Archaeology


AmericanArchaeology

video:Search for the

Lost CavePeople

(60 min.,VC 3339)

viewing guide

review handout:Archaeological

stages (periods)




1 2

3 4 5 Week 05>> Day 09

6 7 Week 05>> Day 10

8 9

Nobel Conference 46Gustavas Adolphus

PreclassicPeriod:

MesoamericaIdentifies

Itself

video:Looking for OneBeginning: The

Fallacy ofDiffusionism

(50 min., 2000,DVD 208)

viewing guide

slides:Preclassic

—Introduction—Late—Middle—Early

assignment:Review for

MidsemesterExam

PreclassicPeriod:

MesoamericaIdentifies

Itself

video:Excavations at

La Venta(29 min.,VC 3284)

viewing guide


10 11 12 Week 06>> Day 11

13 14 Week 06>> Day 12

15 16

PreclassicPeriod

Catch up /Review

assignment:Review for

MidsemesterExam

The f2010MidtermExam will

be onThursday,14 October

2010

assignment:(after exam)

The Maya, 56-79

World Food Day



17 18 19 Week 07>> Day 13

20 21 Week 07>> Day 14

22 23

The ClassicPeriod

handout:Classic

slides:Classic

—Introduction—Early—Middle—Late

assignment:Mexico,101-121

Teotihuacán

The ClassicPeriod

slides:Teotihuacán

video:Teotihuacán:The City ofthe Gods(27 min.,DVD 121)

viewing guide

assignment:The Maya,198-229

4004 B.C., 9:00a.m.,

World Created

Happy BirthdayWorld!

24 25 26 Week 08>> Day 15

27 28 Week 08>> Day 16

29 30

ClassicPeriod Life

slides:Classic

—Introduction—Early—Middle—Late


ClassicPeriod Life

video:"Forests of the

Maya"(60 min.,

VC 3403-2)viewing guide


80-88, 247-248

31 Haloween



1 2 Week 09>> Day 17

3 4 Week 09>> Day 18

5 6

Day of the Dead,Día de losMuertos-- Mexico

ClassicPeriod

Mathematics,Science, and

Writing

video:Culture and

Math: The Maya(15/31 min.,

2006,DVD 1110)

viewing guide

slides:MesoamericanMathematics


88-101

ClassicPeriod

Mathematics,Science, and

Writing

video:Cracking theMaya Code

(54 min, 2008,DVD 1575)

viewing guide


102-129 Tikál

7 8 9 Week 10>> Day 19

10 11 Week 10>> Day 20

12 13

set clockback 1 hour

The ClassicPeriod:

Economiesand Empires

video:Maya Lords of

the Jungle(60 min.,VC 212)

viewing guide


The ClassicPeriod:

Economiesand Empires

video:Out of the Past:

"Artisans andTraders"(60 min.,VC 2130)

viewing guide


Mexico, 132-150

Veterans Day

The MA ExtraCredit (1)

bibliography and(2) promissoryabstract due by

Friday, 12November 2010

14 15 16 Week 11>> Day 21

17 18 Week 11>> Day 22

19 20

International Education Week -- 15-19 November 2010join IEWNet -- IEW Quiz

The Collapse

video:Lost Kingdomsof the Maya(60 min.,VC 2163)

viewing guide


The Collapse

video:Out of the past:"The Collapse"

(60 min.,VC 2135)

viewing guide




21 22 23 Week 12>> Day 23

24 25 26 27

ThePostclassic

Period

handout:Postclassic

handout:Teotihuacán

slides:Postclassic—Introduction—Early—Late


U.S.A. HolidayThanksgiving

Holiday

World Buy

Nothing Day[postcards]

28 29 30 Week 12>> Day 24

ThePostclassic

Period

video:Out of thePast: "New

Worlds"(60 min.,VC 2128)

viewing guide




1 2 Week 13>> Day 25

3 4

The EarlyPostclassic:Toltecs and"Toltecized"

Maya



The MA CaseStudy is due no

later than Friday,3 December

2010

5 6 7 Week 13>> Day 26

8 9 Week 14>> Day 27

10 11

St. Nicholas Day The EarlyPostclassic:Toltecs and"Toltecized"

Maya

video:Chichén Itzá:

At the Mouth ofthe Well(27 min.,DVD 108)

viewing guide


assignment:Mexico,

205-224,and look at

Aztec Monarchson 237

The MA ExtraCredit term

paper is due nolater than

Wednesday, 08December 2010

The LatePostclassic:

Aztecs

video:Ancient

Civilizations:The Aztecs(47 min.,VC 3530)

viewing guide


slides:Aztec


The Maya,230-242Mexico,225-231



12 13 14 Week 14>> Day 28

15 16 Week 15>> Day 29

17 18

St. Lucia's Day The LatePostclassic:

Aztecs

courseevaluation

video:Secrets of the

Dead:"Aztec

Massacre"(60 min,2008,

DVD 1580)viewing guide

assignment:Mexico

232-235The Maya,243-246

NewWorlds:

TheConquest

video:The Sweat of

the Sun(52 min.,VC 169)

viewing guide

assignment:Review for Final

Exam

Ashura16 December

2011(in NorthAmerica)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Winter Solstice The f2010AncientMiddle

AmericaFinal Exam

will beWednesday,December

22,12:00-01:55p.m. in Cina

214

MAforum finalsemester evaluations

are due byWednesday, 22December 2010,11:59 p.m. CDT

Getting yourother grades Holiday Christmas

26 27 28 29 30 31 Boxing Day Floating

HolidayFloating Holiday Floating

Holiday



1

New Year's Day

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Martin LutherKing, Jr., Day

Spring semesterclasses begin

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

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