14

Jan 10

LECTURE

How do we study artefacts?

How do we study past beliefs and explain past cultures? Archaeological interpretation

Review: Fagan: Ch 5 Individuals and Interactions

Ch 6 Studying the Intangible

Ch 7 Explaining the Past

Jan 11

TUTORIAL

15

Jan 17

LECTURE

Archaeology of Death: bioarchaeology and beliefs

Course Kit: review Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy, and read Sexing and Aging the Skeleton, Whispers from the Ice, Kwaday dan Tsinchi, and review Fagan 243-256

Jan 18

TUTORIAL

16

Jan 24

LECTURE

The story of humanity’s journeys resumes: Modern humans settle the world

Farming and its importance

Fagan Ch 10, 257-283. The Great Diaspora

Fagan Ch 11, 283-314. The Earliest Farmers

Jan 25

TUTORIAL

17

Jan 31

LECTURE

Civilizations of the Old World: Ur, Egypt, and You

Fagan Ch 12 315-344. The First Civilizations

Feb 1

TUTORIAL

Seeing the Museum

18

Feb 7

LECTURE

no class – work on Museum Assignment

Feb 8

TUTORIAL

no class – work on Museum Assignment

Feb 13-17

READING WEEK

19

Feb 21

LECTURE

Ancient civilizations of the Old World, cont’d

Fagan Ch 13, Early Asian Civilizations

ONLINE: Jared Diamond: Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?

www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html

Feb 22

TUTORIAL

 Egypt

20

Feb 28

LECTURE

Peoples of the New World: Ontario

Precontact Ontario

www.adamsheritage.com/pre/preont1.htm   Read each section (tabs along side)

Mar 1

TUTORIAL

Guns, Germs and Steel

MUSEUM ASSMT DUE

21

Mar 7

LECTURE

Complex societies and civilizations of the New World: an introduction

Fagan Ch 14 and Ch 15, 364-416: Maize, Pueblos, and Mound Builders, and  Mesoamerican Civilizations

Mar 8

TUTORIAL

Mexico and QUIZ

22

Mar 14

LECTURE

Mesoamerica, continued, and Andean civilizations

Fagan Ch 16 - 419-440 Andean Civilizations

Course Kit: Finding the Tomb of a Moche Priestess

This web reading about European contact and conquest in the Americas:

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/columbus.html, www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Latin.html,

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html,

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/inca.html

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/maritime.html

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/eurowar.html

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/communicate.html

www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/relex.html

Mar 15

TUTORIAL

Contact: The Aztec

23

Mar 21

LECTURE

Archaeology, ethics, politics

The Past in the Present

Course Kit: Action Archaeology and the Community at El Pilar, Cultural Resource Management

AND these online readings.

Issue: Ethics and archaeology.

Can you dig it? http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1056932

Issue: Repatriation

Read the Kennewick Man Virtual Exhibit at the Burke Museum:  www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/kman/virtualexhibit_intro.htm  Ensure that you see the pages called Chronology of Events Who are Native Americans? Ancient People in the Americas The Idea of Race Native American Views Anthropologist's Views

Issue: Looting in North America

Hester Davis 1998. Facing the Crisis. Archaeology Magazine. http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/loot/index.html Read each section.

Issue: History that hurts

Alyssa Fisher. 2003. A Sight Which Can Never Be Forgotten. Archaeology Magazine.         http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/massacre/index.html

Issue: Archaeology and War

Spoils of War, re: Iraq, from 2003. http://www.archaeology.org/0307/etc/war.html

    (Optional: for more, see Protecting Iraq's Ancient Heritage:         http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/iraq/index.html )   

Mar 22

TUTORIAL

Ethics and Repatriation

24

Mar 28

LECTURE

Palaeoanthropology, Archaeology and the Future

Course Kit: Legacies of Human Evolutionary History

and

Why Societies Collapse: www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s707591.htm

The Ends of the World as We Know Them www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205Y.shtml

Godzilla's Attacking Babylon: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/godzilla/

TUTORIAL

last tutorial

25

Apr 4

LECTURE

Take-home final exam handed out

Sept 13

Welcome, introduction to the course

None

Sept 20

Introduction to anthropology, archaeology, palaeoanthropology. Notes on study skills

 Fagan: review table of contents

 Chapter 1: 2-29

Sept 27

What’s left behind: the archaeological record and how we obtain it

Fagan Chapter 2, 3: 31-85

Oct 11

Anthropology and Archaeology

Hand out Assignment #1

Review for Quiz #1

KIT: Putting the World in Perspective,

The Essence of Anthropology, and

The Nature of Anthropology

Oct 18

The big picture: biology and evolution; our primate heritage

KIT: Biology and Evolution, and

Living Primates

Oct 25

Primates: biology and behaviour

KIT: An Overview of Primates,

Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy, Linda Fedigan and Birute Galdikas,

The Culture of Chimpanzees

Nov 1

Meet your great-great-great…. grandparents: early forms of hominid

KIT: Macroevolution and the Early Primates

Fagan: Ch 8  Human Origins

KIT: Something New and Different, and Cat in the Human Cradle

Nov 8

Lecture

Review

Tutorial

Nov 15

Lecture

Early Homo sapiens: biology and culture. Early humans: facts and representations

Fagan: Ch 9 African Exodus

KIT: Sex, gender, and the behaviour of early Homo 

Nov 22

lecture

Modern humans and their  differences

Nov 29

lecture

Back to archaeology: How do we study artefacts?

Fagan: Ch 4 How did People Live?

Ch 5 Individuals and Interactions

tutorial

DEC 6

How do we study past beliefs and explain past cultures?

Fagan Ch 6 Studying the Intangible

Ch 7 Explaining the Past