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Aztec Sunstone Calendar

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Week 05

Thinking like an Ancient Mesoamerican:

Mesoamerican Landscapes


More
Basic American Archaeology

 

Read:
Mexico, Ch. 5, "The Preclassic Period: Early Civilizations," pp. 76-100
Read: The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 56-66
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

 

Tlaloc vase.

Tlaloc vase

 
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Week 05 Day 09

Tuesday 6 October 2009

02:10 Spirits of the Jaguar: The Fifth World of the Aztecs
(ca. 60 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 4)

 



Announcements

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

 

Features of the Day

Old Business
next time

02:10 video:

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

Tepetlaoztoc Codex, Manuscript.

Tepetlaoztoc Codex, Manuscript

Aztec eagle in cactus.

Aztec legendary eagle

 

Old Business

  • Next time
 

Assignments

Read:
Mexico, Ch. 5, "The Preclassic Period: Early Civilizations," pp. 76-100
Read: The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 56-66
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

 
 
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Week 05 Day 10

Thursday 8 October 2009

nlt 02:40 Excavations at La Venta
(ca. 29 min., 1986, VC 3284)


 

Announcements

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

 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

nlt 02:40 video:

Excavations at La Venta
(ca. 29 min., 1986, VC 3284)

Olmec Heartland map.

"A recovered mosaic."

La Venta
Wikipedia

 

  • 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)

Stages handout thumbnail.
(scanned version)

Mesoamerican Stages
(Periods)

stages handout
(as defined by various authors)

(read from bottom to top)

V. Spanish Conquest  
IV. (slides)
III. Classic (slides)
II. Mesoamerica Identifies Itself

(slides: Introduction, Early, Middle, Late)

 

I.

 

"Hunting / Gathering"

Archaic, or Incipient Agriculturalists

(slides)

 


Sites:


  Tepexpan (map) (slides)
     
     
Cuello (map) (slides)
 

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. 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. 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

 
 

Assignments

Read:
Mexico, Ch. 5, "The Preclassic Period: Early Civilizations," pp. 76-100
Read: The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 56-66
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

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.

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