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Week 06

Mesoamerica Identifies Itself:

The Preclassic Period

 

Map of the Olmec Heartland and vicinity.

Map: Olmec Civilization,
1200 B.C. - A.D. 600

Olmec map II -- MESOWEB

 

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 66-79
Read: The Maya, Ch. 9, "Maya Thought and Culture," pp. 198-229
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

Cabeza Colosal nº1 del Museo Xalapa.
San Lorenzo
Cabeza Colosal nº1 del Museo Xalapa
 Wikipedia
 
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Week 06 Day 11

Tuesday 13 October 2009

nlt 2:20 video: "Looking for One Beginning:
The Fallacy of Diffusionism" ..
(50 min., 2001, DVD 208)

  

Announcements
 

 

MAforum: Topic 2

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam

The f2009 Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. , from now
and it's not too early to start thinking about the Midterm Exam

sample midterm exam on-line

 

Blue book for exams.

Assignment:

 

1. Make up one good question for the midsemester exam and post it on the the MAforum, and . . .

 2. Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

 

 

Post your meaningful observations on the MAforum
by the end of Week 6

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 2

Set CEfolder to current Topic.

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

 
 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

nlt 2:20 video

"Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism"
-- Films for the Humanities
 (50 min., 2001, DVD 208)
REM: check conditino of DVD .

Panel from the back of the golden throne of King Tut.

Kon-Tiki.
Kon-Tiki
 

nlt 02:40 video:

Brief Review of

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

Olmec Heartland map.

"A recovered mosaic."
La Venta -- Wikipedia
 

Old Business

 
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 66-79
Read: The Maya, Ch. 9, "Maya Thought and Culture," pp. 198-229
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • 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.
  • Tuesday 13 October 2009: Review Excavation at La Venta terms/concepts and notes. Viewed "Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism" (50 min., 2001, DVD 208), didn't review notes/concepts and notes. Next time review notes/concepts and notes, Major Concepts in American Archaeology, and stages and stage criteria (Archaic, Lithic, Preclassic).
 
 

 
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Week 06 Day 12

Thursday 15 October 2009

nlt 2:40 Culture and Math: The Maya
(15/31 min., 2006, CC, DVD 1110)

 

Mayan Numerals

Announcements

    "Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun gestures as he pays his respects at an altar within the Iximche ceremonial site in Tecpan, Guatemala. Chile Pixtun shrugs off the 2012 frenzy, saying he's 'fed up with this stuff.'"

     

  • 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 video 2:40
Culture and Math: The Maya
 (15/31 min., 2006, CC, DVD 1110) (slides)

 

 

Tape, Culture and Math: The Maya.

Mayan Numerals, 5 + 8 = 13.

"Detail showing three columns of glyphs from La Mojarra Stela 1. The left column uses Maya numerals to show a Long Count date of 8.5.16.9.9, or 156 CE"

Maya numerals
Wikipedia

 

Math.

 
 

Old Business

 

  • 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

 

  
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Maya Civilization," pp. 66-79
Read: The Maya, Ch. 9, "Maya Thought and Culture," pp. 198-229
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • Tuesday 13 October 2009: Review Excavation at La Venta terms/concepts and notes. Viewed "Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism" (50 min., 2001, DVD 208), didn't review notes/concepts and notes. Next time review notes/concepts and notes, Major Concepts in American Archaeology, and stages and stage criteria (Archaic, Lithic, Preclassic).
  • Thursday 15 October 2009: Finished Major Concepts in American Archaeology up until Stages. Do stages next time.
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