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Mesoamerica -- Wikipedia
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Week 06

Mesoamerica Identifies Itself:

The Preclassic Period

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

Olmec Monumental Head

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Tuesday 26 February 2008

Week 06 Day 11

nlt 03:45 video: "Looking for One Beginning:
The Fallacy of Diffusionism" ..
(50 min., 2001, DVD 208)

Announcements

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MAforum: Topic 5-- Make up a Good Question for the Midsemester Exam

The Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. , from now

MAforum: Topic 4

Question for the Midterm Exam

For Topic 4, have a look at the Midsemester Exam information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/maexams.html#midsemester>
Look over the exam materials on that page
- including the sample exam questions
Click on the various items for details
Then review the materials so far covered this semester
- in your texts
- in your class notes
- on the video viewing guides
- and on the handouts
  - stages handout
    - Mesoamerican Time Line and Stages (Periods)
  - Anthropology and Its Parts
  - Major Characteristics of Anthropology
Useful Information:
- UMD Study Strategies
- test taking strategies
- learning styles
- listening skills
- notetaking
- special facilities / arrangements
- Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 01 - 06
- basic information about the text
- How to write an essay exam -- OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
- extra help with 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 4

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

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Features of the Day

nlt 03:45 video "Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism" -- Films for the Humanities
(50 min., 2001, DVD 208)
REM: check conditino of DVD ..

Kon-Tiki

Old Business

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Old Business

Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology
stages (scanned)

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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

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Notes

Tuesday, 26 February: Introduction to diffusionism, and beginning of "Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism"(50 min., 2001, DVD 208); technical difficulties ended the showing of the video about 25 minutes into the program

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Thursday 28 February 2008

Week 06 Day 12

04:05 Culture and Math: The Maya
(15/31 min., 2006, CC, DVD 1110)

Announcements

REM: The Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. from now
- Sample Exam Questions
  - optional take-home question

MAforum: Topic 4-- Make up a Good Question for the Midsemester Exam

The Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. , from now

For Topic 4, have a look at the Midsemester Exam information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/maexams.html#midsemester>
Look over the exam materials on that page
- including the sample exam questions
Click on the various items for details
Then review the materials so far covered this semester
- in your texts
- in your class notes
- on the video viewing guides
- and on the handouts
  - stages handout
    - Mesoamerican Time Line and Stages (Periods)
  - Anthropology and Its Parts
  - Major Characteristics of Anthropology
Useful Information:
- UMD Study Strategies
- test taking strategies
- learning styles
- listening skills
- notetaking
- special facilities / arrangements
- Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 01 - 06
- basic information about the text
- How to write an essay exam -- OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
- extra help with 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 midnight Friday of Week 6

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Features of the Day

video 04:05 Culture and Math: The Maya
(15/31 min., 2006, CC, DVD 1110) (slides)

"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

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Old Business

Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology

Basic Archaeological Units		2
Process		item or event specific
Stages		4 or 5

Orientation to the Archaic/Lithic, Preclassic, and other Stages

stages handout (scanned)

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods)
stages class handout

(read from bottom to top)

Spanish Conquest

IV.

Postclassic

(slides)

III.

Classic

(slides)

II.

Preclassic

Mesoamerica Identifies Itself

(slides: Introduction, Early, Middle, Late)

"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

The Preclassic Period
- online Time Line and Stages (Periods)
  - stages handout (scanned)
- Class Preclassic slides: Introduction, Early, Middle, Late
  - Tehuacán
    - Tehuacán handout
    - Tehuacán slides
  - Olmec and Epi-Olmec
    - La Venta
    - Pictures of Record slides
  - Cuello
    - Cuello slides
  - Copilco
    - Copilco slides
  - Cuicuilco
    - Cuicuilco slides
  - Teotihuacán I (Tzacualli phase)
  - Monte Albán II
  - Chupicuaro
  - Early Tres Zapotes
  - Tikál
  - Dzibilchaltún

The Lithic, or Early Hunters Stage
(slides)

The Archaic Stage
(map) (slides)

Sites:

Tepexpan (map) (slides)

Tehuacán (handout) (map) (slides)

Cuello (map) (slides)

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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

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Notes

Tuesday, 26 February 2008: Introduction to diffusionism, and beginning of "Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism"(50 min., 2001, DVD 208); technical difficulties ended the showing of the video about 25 minutes into the program
Thursday, 28 February 2008: Finished Basic Terms and Concepts in American Archaeology, LIthic review (slides), and Culture and Math: The Maya (15/31 min., 2006, CC, DVD 1110)

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