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Lecture Notes

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This page presents a set of vocabulary sheets that outline the key terms, concepts and characters covered in lectures, plus assorted handouts. Note that some vocabulary sheets are used for several lectures in a row.


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Introduction
Lec1Introductory Remarks - Overview and Class and Lab LogisticsSheet 1 (PDF)
Lec2Archaeology: Nature and Goals; Historical Development as a DisciplineSheet 2 (PDF)
Unit 1 - Earlier Prehistory: A Brief Overview
Lec3Becoming Human: Early Hominids and the Earliest TechnologySheet 3 (PDF)

Humanness (PDF)

Early Site Formation Models (PDF)

Synoptic Overview of Pleistocene Prehistory in the Old World (PDF)

Lec4Becoming Human: Early Humans and Emerging Cultural BehaviorSheet 4 (PDF)
Lec5Becoming Human: Modern Humans and the Advent of Modern BehaviorsSheet 4 (cont.)
Unit 2 - The Near East Case Study
Lec6Theoretical Perspectives; Variables to be Considered in Comparative Studies. The Environmental Setting for Domestication and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Near EastSheet 5 (PDF - 2.1 MB)The Path to Social Complexity (PDF)
Lec7Pre-Neolithic Adaptations and the Natufian in the Near EastSheet 5 (cont.)

Classification of Social Organization (PDF)

Developments Immediately Preceding the "Agricultural Revolution" (PDF)

Map of Major Topographic Units in the Middle East (PDF)

Maps of Near East Vegetation and Environmental Zones: Figures 2-3 and 2-4 in Amazon logo Redman, C. L. The Rise of Civilization: From Early Farming to Urban Society in the Ancient Near East. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman, 1979. ISBN: 9780716700555.

Lec8Domestication: Recognition, Processes and ImpactSheet 5 (cont.)The Domestication Process (PDF)
Lec9Origins and Expansion of Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Near East ContextSheet 6 (PDF)
Lec10Early Village Farming Communities: Geographic Expansion, Emerging Class Stratification and Centralization of ReligionSheet 6 (cont.)
Lec11The Earliest Stages of Urbanization: Ubaid and EriduSheet 7 (PDF)
Lec12Urbanization and City States: Uruk, Civilization and WritingSheet 7 (cont.)
Lec13Urbanization and City States: Ur Political and Social Environments, Material Achievements, the Critical Factors Interacting in the Development of Stratified Society in the Near EastSheet 8 (PDF)
Lec14Refocusing on the Comparative Theme: Eurasia - The AmericasSheet 8 (cont.)
Unit 3 - The Mesoamerica Case Study
Lec15Peopling of The Americas. The Mesoamerican Environmental Setting: Lowlands and HighlandsSheet 9 (PDF)
Lec16Plant and Animal Domestication and the Emergence of Settled Village Life: Tehuacan and OaxacaSheet 10 (PDF)Wave Model of Peopling the New World (PDF)
Lec17Plant and Animal Domestication and the Emergence of Settled Village Life: Comparing Processes in Mesoamerica and the Near EastSheet 10 (cont.)Tehuacan Valley Sequence (PDF)
Lec18The Emergence of the Olmec and Early Lowland Civilization - La VentaSheet 11 (PDF)
Lec19Olmec AccomplishmentsSheet 11 (cont.)Notes on Recently Discovered Olmec Writing (PDF)
Lec20The Maya: The Rise of Tropical Rain Forest City-statesSheet 12 (PDF)
Lec21Maya Achievements and the Decline of the Classic MayaSheet 12 (cont.)
Lec22Prof. Dorothy Hosler: West Mexican Metallurgy and its Importance in Interregional Contact
Lec23Teotihuacan: The Rise and Fall of a Highland State: its Social Consequences
Unit 4 - Decline and Collapse
Lec24Decline of Early Civilizations - Social, Political, Economic - An Examination of Potential Causes in Mesopotamia and MesoamericaNotes on Societal Collapse: Maya and Sumer (PDF)
Lec25Decline of Early Civilizations (cont.)

 








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