Ancient Middle America

Announcements

Features of the Day

• 03:40 video: Spirits of the Jaguar: The Fifth World of the Aztecs
  (ca. 60 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 4)
  
  

Aztec legendary eagle

Old Business

• next time

Assignments

Notes

• Tuesday, 19 February 2008: Spirits of the Jaguar: The Fifth World of the Aztecs (ca. 60 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 4), "Important Animals...."

Announcements

Features of the Day

• Old Business
  
  
  

• Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology
  
  
  
  • Brief Review: Orientation to the Archaic/Lithic, Preclassic, and other Stages
    
    
• stages handout (scanned)    
  
  
  

  Mesoamerican Stages (Periods) stages class handout (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)

  
  

  Mesoamerican Stages (Periods) stages class handout (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

 

• lt 04:10 video: Excavations at La Venta
  (ca. 29 min., 1986, VC 3284)

  
  
  "A recovered mosaic."
  
  La Venta -- Wikipedia
  

 

Old Business

• Tuesday, 19 February 2008: Spirits of the Jaguar: The Fifth World of the Aztecs (ca. 60 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 4), "Important Animals...."
  
  
  
• Ethnographic Analogy: Rural-Urban Patterns in Central Highland Mexico:
  Los Cides miracles, Central Highland Mexico: Tepeapulco, Hidalgo
  
  
  

  	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)

  
  
  

• Major features of natural areas (slides) #10, Mesoamerica vs. Middle America....
  
  
  
• Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology

Assignments

Notes