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Week 14

 

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 8, "Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest," pp. 192-197
Read: The Maya, Ch. 10, "The Enduring Maya," pp. 230-242
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study

 

Inca Gold

Inca Gold
 
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Tuesday 29 April 2008

Week 14 Day 27

nlt 03:40 Out of the Past: "New Worlds"
(60 min., 1993, VC 2128)

  

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MAforum: Topic 14: Question for the Final Exam

Image of a blue book.

For Topic 14 have a look at the Final Exam information
at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/maexams.html#final>

Click on the various items for details

Review the materials

in your text

in your class notes

on the video viewing guides

Assignment:
1. Make up one good question for the final exam and post it on the the MAforum, and . . .
2. Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one
 

Note: The last day for this posting is Friday, 9 May 2008

 

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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 14

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

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

 
 
MAforum: Topic 15

Semester Review and Evaluation		  

Lady Justice (Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice.
Semester Review and Evaluation

Your last required posting is to provide a three-part evaluation of the semester:

A.
 In one or two paragraphs briefly evaluate the course, covering the semester as a whole
B. List the three things that you most enjoyed during the semester
C. Not counting the exams, list the three things that you least enjoyed during the semester

MAforum final semester evaluations are due by Friday evening, 9 May 2008, 11:59 p.m. CDT


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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 9: What can we learn from a Mayan vase?

On 4 December 2007 National Geographic announced:

 

"Rare Maya 'Death Vase' Discovered"

 

"The intricately carved vase is giving experts a glimpse into ancient rituals that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting."

An extremely rare "death vase" was recently discovered in the 1,400-year-old grave of a member of the Maya elite.

This extremely rare "death vase" was recently discovered in the 1,400-year-old grave of a member of the Maya elite. The vase is carved with sculpted scrolls, overlapping tiles meant to resemble serpent scales, and handles fashioned into the shape of bats' heads.

 

Read the article at

<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-maya-vase.html>

 

Question:

In your opinion what is the most important thing we can learn from the discovery of this vase?

Why?

 

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

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REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
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Features of the Day

 

Tenochtitlan.

Tenochtitlán

 

nlt 03:40 video: Out of the Past: "New Worlds"
(60 min., 1993, VC 2128)

 

Macchu Picchu

Macchu Picchu
(Across the Divide Expeditions)




 

Old Business

  • The Classic Period
    (slides)


  • The Postclassid Period
    (slides)

 

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods)
stages class handout

(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)

 
 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 8, "Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest," pp. 192-197
Read: The Maya, Ch. 10, "The Enduring Maya," pp. 230-242
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

  • 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, (slides), Palace of Quetzalcoátl with Joaquin Antonio Fernandez Espinoza de los Monteros, #66 (.ppt)
  • Thursday, 24 April 2008: Teotihuacán slides to "Viking Group", #97/98, video: Ancient Civilizations: The Aztecs (47 min., 1999, VC 3530)
 
 
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Thursday 01 May 2008

Week 14 Day 28

nlt 03:48 The Sweat of the Sun
(52 min., 1975, VC 169)

  

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Comida Mexicana
Thursday, 8 May 2008
3:30
at
Hacienda del Sol
319 East Superior St.
 (map)

Aztec woman blowing on maize.

An Aztec woman blowing on maize
before putting in the cooking put, so that it will not fear the fire.

Florentine Codex
late 16th century

Course WebPage on Aztec Feasts

 
 
MAforum: Topic 10: New Techniques in Ancient Mesoamerica

On 10 December 2007 Science News announced:

"Ancient Maya Marketplace Located, Challenges Views On Goods Distribution"

"Coaxing answers from 1500-year-old clues hidden in soil clumps, a team of archaeologists and environmental scientists identified a marketplace in an ancient Maya city, calling into question archaeologists’ widely held belief that people of the era relied on rulers to tax and re-distribute goods, rather than trading them with one another."

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203134409.htm>

 

BYU environmental scientist Richard Terry samples soil at an ancient Maya site similar to one in present-day Mexico that his team proved was once a marketplace.


BYU environmental scientist Richard Terry samples soil at an ancient Maya site similar to one in present-day Mexico that his team proved was once a marketplace.

 

This present-day marketplace in Antigua, Guatemala has a similar pattern of soil residue to that of an ancient Maya site, proving that the ancient people had a market economy.

This present-day marketplace in Antigua, Guatemala has a similar pattern of soil residue to that of an ancient Maya site, proving that the ancient people had a market economy. -- MSNBC

 

Read the article at

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203134409.htm>

Reference: Brigham Young University. "Ancient Maya Marketplace Located, Challenges Views On Goods Distribution." ScienceDaily 10 December 2007. 10 December 2007

 

Related information:

 

 

Question:

How do you think the new techniques being used in this study might change the interpretation of other features in Ancient Middle America in the future?

Why?

 

MAforum
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Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
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to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 10

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

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

Features of the Day

 

nlt 03:48 video: The Sweat of the Sun
(52 min., 1975, VC 169)
(slides)

 

Aztec gold.
Aztec Gold

 

 

Aztec gold.

Aztec Gold

Inca Gold

Inca Gold

 

 
 

Old Busines

  • The Postclassid Period
    (slides)

 

Mesoamerican Stages (Periods)
stages class handout

(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)

 

Assignments

Read:
 The Maya, Ch. 8, "Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest," pp. 192-197
Read: The Maya, Ch. 10, "The Enduring Maya," pp. 230-242
Post: MAforum
Work on: Case Study
 

Notes

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