UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

ANT319Y - ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA

LECTURE OUTLINE, 2005

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Date                                                     Lectures and Readings

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Sept. 13           Introduction: Environmental Overview; Cultures at European Contact

 

Sept. 20           Second Contact and a Brief History of North American Archaeology

Fagan 1, 2

 

Sept. 27           Routes: Peopling of the New World

Fagan 4

 

Oct. 4              Paleoindians: Basal Cultures in North America

Fagan 4

 

Oct. 11            Hunter-Gatherers: Theory and Method in North American Archaeology

 

Oct. 18            Late Paleoindian Cultures in North America

Fagan 5

 

Oct. 25            MID-TERM TEST

 

Nov. 1             Introduction II: The Archaic Transition: From Big Game to Nuts

Formative Cultures: Farming and Complexity

 

Nov. 8             The Great Plains: Bison Hunters

Fagan 6

 

Nov. 15           Farming on the Plains

Fagan 7

 

Nov. 22           Arctic Early

Fagan 8

 

Nov. 29           Arctic Late

Fagan 9

 

Dec. 6              TERM TEST

 

Jan. 10             The Pacific Coast: Millingstones, Molluscs and Sea Mammals

Fagan 10

 

Jan. 17             The Later Pacific Coast: The Rise of Complexity

Fagan 11

 

Jan. 24             Plateau Pithouse Tradition

 

Jan. 31             Foraging in the Desert: The Great Basin

Fagan 12

 

Feb. 7              Hunting and Gathering in The Southwest

                        Fagan 13

 

Feb. 14            MID-TERM TEST

 

Feb. 28            The Southwest and the Origins of Agriculture

Fagan 14

 

Mar. 7              Pueblos and Painted Pots

Fagan 15

 

Mar. 14            Archaic in the Eastern Woodlands

                        Fagan 16, 17

 

Mar. 21           Early and Middle Woodland Periods: The Moundbuilders

Fagan 18, 19

Mar. 28            Complexity: The Mississippian Chiefdoms

Fagan 20

 

Apr. 4            Late Woodland in the Northeast: People of the Longhouse

Fagan 21

Apr. 11              TERM TEST

                     

  

GRADING:

4 tests @ 18% each     72%

1 essay                         28%