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Week 13 Day 26

Tuesday 8 December 2009

3:35 nlt 4:19 Desert People
(51 min., 1965, B/W, VC 1094)

Announcements

PCforum: Topic 14: Questions about the Final Exam

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PCforum: Topic 14: Questions about the Final Exam

The f2009 DAY Final Prehistoric Cultures Exam will be on Saturday, 19 December, 2:00 - 3:55. in Cina 214

The f2009 CE Final Prehistoric Cultures Exam will be Monday, 21 December, 06:00 - 07:55 p.m. in Cina 214 (n.b. not 5:00)

For Topic 14 have a look at the Final Exam information
at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html#final>

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

in your text

in your class notes

on the video viewing guides--DAY
or on the video viewing guides--CEE

Assignment:

Post some meaningful question(s), or discussion of question(s), on the PCforum

Note:
The last day for this posting is Sunday, 7 December 2008

Useful Information:

UMD Study Strategiestest taking strategies

learning styles

listening skills

notetaking special facilities / arrangements

Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 11 - 15

basic information about the text

Resources from the Publisher

Sample Multiple-Choice Exam Questions

Sample Essay Exam Questions (optional)

extra help with exams

PCforum
<http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/PCforum/>

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 14

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class

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Features of the Day

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3:35 nlt 4:19 video
Desert People
(51 min., 1965, B/W, VC 1094)

Scenes from the video Desert People

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
theoretical / interpretative approaches
- including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks	Methods and Techniques Slides
07 - 08	Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08	Special Skills:
		In the Field (slides 10A)
		In the Lab (slides 10B)
		In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12	Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
	Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

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Hunting / Gathering / Foraging (continued)
- Ethnographic analogy and the Method of Conrolled Comparison

Week CEE	Day	Foraging Peoples in History and Prehistory
		Ethnographic Analogy / Ethnoarchaeology (slides 11A)
12	25 / 26	Foraging: Hunting / Gathering / Collecting (slides 24)
		Ambrona and Terra Amata: Big Game Hunters in Spain and France (slides 27A)
		Holocene Hunters and Gatherers (slides 27B)

or

Introduction to Food Production and the Rise of Ancient Civilizations: The Neolithic

Week
CEE Day
Slides

13 27
Food Production: A Biocultural Revolution (slides 32)

14
The First Civilizations (slides 33)

15
New World Civilizations (slides 34)

Bronze Age: 2,200 B.C.

Copper: 3,300 B.C.

Neolithic: 8,000 - 3,000 B.C. ("Wisdom of the Stones")

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Old Business

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging: Ethnographic analogy and the Method of Conrolled Comparison
- Foraging: Hunting / Gathering / Collecting (slides 24)
  - Tuesday 25 November 2008: Hunting (slides 24) up to 1880s hunters at .001% of world population

Homo sapiens sapiens: Anatomically Modern Human Beings (introduction)
- Moderns (slides 31)

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Assignments

Read:	Ch. 15, "The First Civilizations," pp. 387-424
Post:	PCforum

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Notes

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Mother Goddess
Hagar Qim, Malta

CE Week: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CE Week 13

Food Production

Monday 7 December 2009

nlt 7:34 "Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age"
(51 min., 2000, VC 3906, pt. 1)

Read:	Ch. 15, "The First Civilizations," pp. 373-400
Post:	PCforum

Text Resources

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Announcements

PCforum: Topic 14: Questions about the Final Exam

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PCforum: Topic 14: Questions about the Final Exam

The f2009 DAY Final Prehistoric Cultures Exam will be on Saturday, 19 December, 2:00 - 3:55. in Cina 214

The f2009 CE Final Prehistoric Cultures Exam will be Monday, 21 December, 06:00 - 07:55 p.m. in Cina 214 (n.b. not 5:00)

For Topic 14 have a look at the Final Exam information
at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html#final>

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

in your text

in your class notes

on the video viewing guides--DAY
or on the video viewing guides--CEE

Assignment:

Post some meaningful question(s), or discussion of question(s), on the PCforum

Note:
The last day for this posting is Sunday, 7 December 2008

Useful Information:

UMD Study Strategiestest taking strategies

learning styles

listening skills

notetaking special facilities / arrangements

Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 11 - 15

basic information about the text

Resources from the Publisher

Sample Multiple-Choice Exam Questions

Sample Essay Exam Questions (optional)

extra help with exams

PCforum
<http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/PCforum/>

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 14

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class

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Features of the Day

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nlt 7:34 video:

"Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age"
part 1 of Secrets of the Stone Age Series
(51 min., 2000, VC 3906, pt. 1)

Malta HomePage

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

the actual content of the various finds
archaeological field methods and techniques
laboratory methods and techniques
- including reconstruction techniques, and . . .
archaeological dating techniques
theoretical / interpretative approaches
- including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks	Methods and Techniques Slides
07 - 08	Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08	Special Skills:
		In the Field (slides 10A)
		In the Lab (slides 10B)
		In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12	Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
	Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

Homo sapiens sapiens: Anatomically Modern Human Beings
- Moderns (slides 31)

Food Production and the Rise of Ancient Civilizations: The Neolithic

Week
CEE Day
Slides

13 27
Food Production: A Biocultural Revolution (slides 32)

14
The First Civilizations (slides 33)

15
New World Civilizations (slides 34)

Bronze Age: 2,200 B.C.

Copper: 3,300 B.C.

Neolithic: 8,000 - 3,000 B.C. ("Wisdom of the Stones")

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Old Business

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging: Ethnographic analogy and the Method of Conrolled Comparison
- Foraging: Hunting / Gathering / Collecting (slides 24)
  - Monday 24 November 2008:Hunting (slides 24) up to Torralba/Ambrona in Spain

Homo sapiens sapiens: Anatomically Modern Human Beings (introduction)
- Moderns (slides 31)

return to scheduled features of the day

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Assignments

Read:	Ch. 15, "The First Civilizations," pp. 387-424
Post:	PCforum

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Notes

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Holocene Hunters and Gatherers: Ethnographic Analogy and the Method of Controlled Comparison

Holocene Hunters and Gatherers:

Ethnographic Analogy
and the
Method of Controlled Comparison