Announcements

• REM: The f2009 Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. from now
  
  

• Sample Exam Questions
  
  
  • optional take-home question
    
    
• sample midterm exam on-line
  • MA-mid-f2008.doc
  • MA-mid-f2008.rtf

02:10 video:

Spirits of the Jaguar: The Fifth World of the Aztecs
(ca. 60 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 4)

Tepetlaoztoc Codex, Manuscript

Aztec legendary eagle

Old Business

• Next time

Assignments

Notes

Announcements

• REM: The f2009 Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. from now
  
  

• Sample Exam Questions
  
  
  • optional take-home question
    
    
• sample midterm exam on-line
  • MA-mid-f2008.doc
  • MA-mid-f2008.rtf

Features of the Day

• Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology

• Major features of natural areas (slides)
  • Paul Kirchhoff, "Meso-America"

• Brief Preview/Review: Orientation to the Archaic/Lithic, Preclassic, and other Stages

Timeline and Stages (Periods)
(commonly accepted stages and stage criteria)

stages handout
(as defined by various authors)


(scanned version)

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods) stages handout (as defined by various authors) (read from bottom to top)
V.	Spanish Conquest
IV.	Postclassic	(slides)
III.	Classic	(slides)
II.	Preclassic	Mesoamerica Identifies Itself (slides: Introduction, Early, Middle, Late)
I.	"Hunting / Gathering"	Archaic, or Incipient Agriculturalists (slides)   Sites:   Tepexpan (map) (slides)       Tehuacán (handout) (map) (slides)       Cuello (map) (slides)
		Lithic, or Early Hunters Stage (slides)

to top of page / A-Z index

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods) stages handout (as defined by various authors) (read from bottom to top) David K. Jordan Version
V.	Spanish Conquest	Late Post-Classic Period (part 2) A.D. 1400-Spanish Conquest More detailed chronology of the Aztecs Table of Aztec Monarchs
IV.	Postclassic	Late Post-Classic Period (part 1) A.D. 1200-1400
		Early Post-Classic Period A.D. 900-1200
III.	Classic	Late Classic Period A.D. 600-900
		Early Classic Period Mexico: A.D. 150-650 Maya: A.D. 250-600
II.	Preclassic	Late Formative (Pre-Classic) 300 B.C. - A.D. 300
		Middle Formative (Pre-Classic) 900-300 B.C.
		Early Formative (Pre-Classic) 1500/1800-900 B.C.
I.	"Hunting / Gathering"	Archaic (Incipient Farming) 7000± - 2000± B.C.
		The Lithic, or Early Hunters 11,000± - 7,000± B.C.
		Geological Background

 

Old Business

• Thursday 1 October 2009: Finished Compound of the Nine Brothers, Nuevo Leon (Detailed Nuevo Leon map) (slides), San Luis Potosi, SLP (Detailed San Luis Potosi map) (slides), and Central Highland Mexico: Tepeapulco, Hidalgo (Detailed Hidalgo map) (slides) up to tlachiqueros going to the tinacal
  
  
• Ethnographic Analogy: Rural-Urban Patterns in Central Highland Mexico:
  
  
  

  	Week	Day
  	02 / 03	04 / 06		Compound of the Nine Brothers, Nuevo Leon (Detailed Nuevo Leon map) (slides)
  				San Luis Potosi, SLP (Detailed San Luis Potosi map) (slides)
  				Central Highland Mexico: Tepeapulco, Hidalgo (Detailed Hidalgo map) (slides)
  				Rural Village Patterns in the state of Hidalgo (Detailed Hidalgo map) (slides)

Assignments

Notes

• Thursday 1 October 2009: Finished Compound of the Nine Brothers, Nuevo Leon (Detailed Nuevo Leon map) (slides), San Luis Potosi, SLP (Detailed San Luis Potosi map) (slides), and Central Highland Mexico: Tepeapulco, Hidalgo (Detailed Hidalgo map) (slides) up to tlachiqueros going to the tinacal
• Thursday 8 October 2009: Finished Ethnographic Analogy: Rural-Urban Patterns in Central Highland Mexico, Viewed Excavation at La Venta; didn't review Excavation at La Venta terms/concepts and notes.