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Copan Jade

Copán Jade,
Honduras
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Week 09

Comparitive Analysis:
Classic Life

 

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

Maya stelae of Copán, Honduras, Frederick Catherwood, 1839

Maya stelae
Copán, Honduras
 
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Tuesday 25 March 2008

Week 09 Day 17

nlt 03:40 Out of the Past: "Artisans and Traders"
(60 min., 1997, VC 2130)

 

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Maya stelae of Copán, Honduras, Frederick Catherwood, 1839

Maya stelae
Copán, Honduras

A chief feature of the Mesoamerican Class is Urbanism/Urbanization.

That concentrates people, which allows markets to develop with sufficient population to allow specialization of labor.

Today's video reviews those aspects of urbanization from a comparative perspective.
   

Old Business

  • next week
   

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
   

Notes

 
 
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Thursday 27 March 2008

Week 09 Day 18

nlt 03:45 "Forests of the Maya"
55 min., 1997, VC 3403

 

Announcements

 

 
MAforum: Topic 6

Mayan Adventure		  

"Adventure awaits travelers to the land of the Maya"

often read the headlines of travel sections of newspapers and magazines

Sunday, October 28, 2007 -- Mcclatchy Newspapers / Duluth News Tribune, p. A17

Cancun area map.

Yucatan Map
(www.allaboutcancun.com/)
You can find in the Duluth News Tribune an article on-line, for example, at

<www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=53138&section=Travel>

The Maya class site

<www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/mamaya.html#title>

The article in the Duluth paper provides several links to online resources:

www.cancun.com and www.allaboutcancun.com
have information about hotels, activities, restaurants and more

www.yucatantoday.com
concentrates mostly on Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula

www.isla-mujeres.net
bills itself as the island’s official Web site

www.xel-ha.com
details the attractions of this entertaining ecological park

Questions:
1. If you were to be a "traveler to the land of the Maya" what two "adventures" would be on the top of your list of things to see/do?

 
2. Why?

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 6

Set MAfolder 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

 

  • nlt 03:45 video: "Forests of the Maya"
    episode 2 of the Spirits of the Jaguar series
    (55 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 2)

Jaguar
 

Old Business

  • next week
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 4, "Classic Splendor: the Early Period," pp. 88-101
Read: The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 102-129 [Tikál]
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

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