Date

Topic

Readings

W 1-15

Introduction to Archaeology

F 1-17

A Brief History of Archaeology

M 1-20

Studying Past Cultures

W 1-22

Survey & Excavation

Chap 1: 1-10

F 1-24

Movie- “Myths and Moundbuilders”

M 1-27

Dating Methods

Chap 2: 42-43

W 1-29

Preservation      

Chap 1: 10-21

F 1-31

Movie- “ Early Stone Tools”

Chap 2: 58-59

M 2-3

Stone Tool Analysis Lab

Yohe pp. 39-64

W 2-5

Ceramics Lab

Sutton & Arkush Chap 6

F 2-7

Paleoethnobotany

M 2-10

Zooarchaeology  Lab

Sutton & Arkush Chap 10

W 2-12

Movie- “Ice Mummies”

F 2-14

Conservation & Exam Review

M 2-17

Exam 1

W 2-19

Human Skeletal Analysis  Lab

Sutton & Arkush Chap 12

F 2-21

Human Evolutionary Development

Chap 2:25-31,
60-63

2-24 to 2-28

NO CLASS-College Break

M 3-3

Basal Hominids

Chap 2: 36-41

W 3-5

Genus Australopithecus  & Paranthropus

Chap 2: 44-57

F 3-7

Movie- “The Story of Lucy”

Chap 2: 32-35

M 3-10

Early Hominids Lab

W 3-12

Homo habilis & Homo erectus

Chap 3: 64-95

F 3-14

Archaic Homo sapiens

Chap 4: 96-107

M 3-17

Movie- "Neanderthals on Trial"

Chap 4: 108-119

W 3-19

Modern Humans

Chap 4: 120-127

F 3-21

Later Hominids Lab

M 3-24

Upper Paleolithic Art & Culture

Chap 4: 128-143

W 3-26

Mesolithic Cultures & Exam Review

Chap 5: 158-194

F 3-28

Exam 2

M 3-31

Migration to the New World

 Chap 4: 144-157

W 4-2

Movie- "Mystery of the First Americans"

F 4-4

Origins of Food Production

Chap 6: 196-255

M 4-7

Archaeology of North America

Chap 7: 256-303

W 4-9 & F 4-11

NO CLASS-SAA meeting (Dr. Walker out of town)

M 4-14 to M 4-21

NO CLASS-College Break

W 4-23

Movie-  “Maya: Lords of the Jungle”

Chap 8: 304-363

F 4-25

Mesoamerican Civilizations

M 4-28

Inca

Chap 9: 364-405

W 4-30

Old World Civilizations

Chap 10: 406-466

F 5-2

Historic Archaeology

Assignment Due

M 5-5

Cultural Resource Management 

W 5-7

Exam 3 Review

M 5-12

Final Exam 2-4:30