Date

Topic

Assignment

W 8-27

Introduction to Course

F 8-29

What is Archaeology?

Chapter 1: 1-5

M 9-1

History of Archaeology

Chapter 2

W 9-3

The Archaeological Record

Chapter 1: 22-28

F 9-5

Archaeological Fieldwork

Chapter 1: 8-22

M 9-8

Relative & Absolute Dating

Chapter 1: 29-32

W 9-10

Environmental Studies & Subsistence

F 9-12

Zooarchaeology

M 9-15

Paleoethnobotany

W 9-17

Movie- "Murder at Stonehenge"

F 9-19

Preservation  

M 9-22

Exam 1 (Exam 1 Review)

W 9-24

Human Skeletal Analysis Lindow Man

Chapter 3

F 9-26

Stone Tools Movie- “Flintknapping”

Chapter 3: 84-87

M 9-29

Early Hominids

W 10-1

Early Homo and Archaic Homo sapiens

Chapter 4

F 10-3

M 10-6

W 10-8

Modern Humans

Chapter 5: 134-150

10-9 to 10-10

NO CLASS-COLLEGE BREAK

M 10-13

Upper Paleolithic Art & Culture

Chapter 5: 151-163

W 10-15

Migration to the New Worlds

Chapter 6

F 10-17

Movie-“Mystery of the First Americans”

M 10-20

W 10-22

Mesolithic  &  Neolithic Cultures

Chapter 7

F 10-24

Movie- "Siberian Ice Maiden"

M 10-27

Origins of Food Production

F 10-31

Archaeology of North America

Chapter 8

M 11-3

Movie- “Maya: Lords of the Jungle”

Chapter 10: 301-313

W 11-5

Olmec-Maya

Chapter 11: 323-350

F 11-7

Aztec Civilization

Chapter 13: 400-413

M 11-10

South American Civilizations

Chapter 13: 391-399

W 11-12 -  F 11-14

M 11-17

Movie- "Frozen in Heaven"

W 11-19

Exam 3 (Exam 3 Review)

F 11-21

Movie- "Mesopotamia"

Chapter 11: 323-333

M 11-24 - F 11-28

M 12-1

Mesopotamia

W 12-3

Ancient Egypt

Chapter 12: 360-374

F 12-5

Movie- “Egypt:Quest for Eternity”

M 12-8

China

Chapter 11: 350-355

W 12-10

Cultural Resource Management

F 12-12

Historic Archaeology (Exam 4 Review)

M 12-15

Section 01 Final Exam 2:00 pm

  W 12-17

Section 02 Final Exam 11:00