Ancient Middle America

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• Teotihaucán and other major Classic Sites
  
  
  • The Classic Stage -- (slides)
    
    
  • Teotihaucán
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  • stages handout
    
    
    

  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

   

  
  

  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

  (time permitting)

  • Quick glimpse of the Bonampak Murals
    
    
  • The Classic Period VIII: Palenque

Old Business

• Continue from Tuesday 01 April 2008: The Classic Period (slides) to #101 re Petén...

Assignments

Notes

• Thursday 10 April 2008: videos, The Fall of the Maya (23 min., 1993, VC 2322), and Copán (15 min., 1985, VC 814), and The Classic Period (slides) to #102, first appearance of Classic complex (Uxactún....)
• Tuesday 15 April 2008: Introduction to and video Out of the past: The Collapse (60 min., 1993, VC 2135)
• Thursday 17 April 2008: The Classic Stage -- (slides) to #141, Early Classic--Teotihuacán, and Teotihuacán slides to Palace of Quetzalcoátl with Joaquin Antonio Fernandez Espinoza de los Monteros, #33