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Week 10

 

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
 Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 132-150
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

 

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Week 10 Day 19

Tuesday 10 November 2009



  

Announcements
 
MAforum: Topic 4 -- Maya Rituals and Decline in Big Game

"Forests of the Maya"
episode 2 of the Spirits of the Jaguar series

portrayed the importance of the Jaguar in Ancient Mayan Cultures
(55 min., 1997, VC 3403 -- episode 2)

In 2007 National Geographic News reported that

"Maya Rituals Caused Ancient Decline in Big Game"
in a study which "is an important contribution to the discussion about the so-called Maya collapse"
(15 November 2007).

Copan ritual.

Ritual
Copán, Hondudras

Related Sites:

Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation 3,000 Years Ago
-- ScienceDaily (23 July 2009)

Ancient Maya Tomb Found: Upright Skeleton, Unusual Location
-- National Geographic News (17 May 17 2007)

"The Maya: Glory and Ruin" in National Geographic Magazine
-- National Geographic News (August 2007)

Bloody Maya Rituals Exterminated Large Mammals - Like jaguars
-- Stefan Anitei, Softpedia (16 November 2007)

For Topic 4
first review the National Geographic article
"Maya Rituals Caused Ancient Decline in Big Game"
at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071115-maya-sacrifice.html
and at lease one of the other articles.

Questions:

1. What is the significance of the finds that relate ancient animal rituals to studies of "the so-called Maya collapse"?

2. Why?

3. Why is "the study . . . also useful for modern conservation movements?"

MAforum
 <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/MAforum/>

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

Set CEfolder to the current topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the MAforum
or bring them up in class
 
MAforum: Topic 5
Oldest Artifact in America -- Readers Write . . .


On Thursday, 5 November 2009,
the same folks who last year discovered the "14,000-year-old" coprolites announced the discovery of "the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years."

Oldest American Artefact Unearthed 
-- Nature (05 November 2009)

Copan ritual.

"An Oregon cave has yielded the oldest artefact ever found in the Americas."
Tom Stafford

For Topic 5 first review the Nature article and the "Comments" about the article by other readers . . .
(found below the article itself)

"Oldest American Artefact Unearthed"
<http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091105/full/news.2009.1058.html>

Questions:

1. What do you think is the most important point made by the readers who have commented on the article?

2. Why?

3. What do you expect will be the importance of the new discovery in the long run?"

4. Why?


MAforum
 <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/MAforum/>

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 5

Set CEfolder to the 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)

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
 

Middle American Classic Sites
(slides)

 

A.D.
925
–
800

 

Terminal Classic

 

Classic Maya collapse,
Putún ascendancy

 

  

 

Puuc , Maya

Chichén Itzá

 

A.D.
900
–
600

 

Late Classic

 

Bonampak murals

height of Maya civilization

reign of Pacal at Palenque

 

"Totonac"?

 

 

El Tajín

 

 

 

 

 

Zapotec

Xochicalco

Edzna

Cholula

Bonampak

Monte Albán IV

Monte Albán III-B

Palenque

Uxmal

El Tajín
(Veracruz)

Remojadas
(Veracruz)

Puuc

ca .
A.D.
700
-
650

 

Fall of Teotihuacán

 

 

A.D.
600
–
150 / 250

 

 

Early Classic

 

 

height of Teotihuacán domination and influence

 

 

Teotihuacános

 

 

Teotihuacán III

 

 

 

 

Maya

Copán
(Yax K'uk Mo')

Tikal
(Petén)

Uaxactún
(Petén)

Monte Albán IIIb

Kaminal- juyú
(highland)
Esperanza phase

 
 

Old Business

 
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
 Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 132-150
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

 
 
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Week 10 Day 20

Thursday 12 November 2009

nlt 2:10 Maya Lords of the Jungle
(60 min., 1981, VC 212)

  

Announcements
 
MAforum: Topic 6
New Ancient Mayan Murals


On Monday, 9 November 2009, the prestigious Journal,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
announced a discovery that was "a total shock"
to Mayan researchers of Calakmul, Mexico . . .

Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life
-- LiveScience (09 November 2009)


Copan ritual.

"One corner of the painted Maya pyramid structure at Calakmul, Mexico.
One layer of the mural must still be excavated."
 Carrasco Vargas et al./PNAS

For Topic 6 first review the article from LiveScience . . .

Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life
-- LiveScience (09 November 2009)

Maya "Painted Pyramid" Reveals 1st Murals of Daily Life
-- National Geographic (12 November 2009)

also have a look at

Calakmul -- Wikipedia

the Calakmul class page

the Maya class page

Questions:

1. What do you think will be
the major long-term importance of this discovery?

2. Why?
Mural scene at Calakmul, Mexico, showing the serving and drinking of "ul," or maize-gruel. The hieroglyphic caption says "aj ul," or "maize-gruel person." Credit: Carrasco Vargas et al./PNAS.
Mural scene at Calakmul, Mexico, showing the serving and drinking of "ul," or maize-gruel.
The hieroglyphic caption says "aj ul," or "maize-gruel person."
Carrasco Vargas et al./PNAS


MAforum
 <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/MAforum/>

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 CEfolder to the 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

(Old Business the week after next)

nlt 2:10 video:

Maya Lords of the Jungle
(60 min., 1981, VC 212)

l

Maya stelae of
Copán, Honduras,
Frederick Catherwood, 1839

 
 

Old Business

  • the week after next
  
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 5, "Classic Splendor: the Late Period," pp. 130-150
Read: The Maya, Ch. 6, "The Terminal," pp. 151-164
Read:
 Mexico, Ch. 7, "The Epiclassic Period," pp. 132-150
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • Thursday 12 November 2009: Reviewed "Terms/Concepts" and "Notes" and viewed Maya Lords of the Jungle (60 min., 1981, VC 212).

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