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.
Lecture notes files.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
VOCABULARY SHEETS |
HANDOUTS |
| Introduction |
| Lec1 |
Introductory Remarks - Overview and Class and Lab Logistics |
Sheet 1 (PDF) |
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| Lec2 |
Archaeology: Nature and Goals; Historical Development as a Discipline |
Sheet 2 (PDF) |
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| Unit 1 - Earlier Prehistory: A Brief Overview |
| Lec3 |
Becoming Human: Early Hominids and the Earliest Technology |
Sheet 3 (PDF) |
Humanness (PDF)
Early Site Formation Models (PDF)
Synoptic Overview of Pleistocene Prehistory in the Old World (PDF)
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| Lec4 |
Becoming Human: Early Humans and Emerging Cultural Behavior |
Sheet 4 (PDF) |
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| Lec5 |
Becoming Human: Modern Humans and the Advent of Modern Behaviors |
Sheet 4 (cont.) |
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| Unit 2 - The Near East Case Study |
| Lec6 |
Theoretical Perspectives; Variables to be Considered in Comparative Studies. The Environmental Setting for Domestication and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Near East |
Sheet 5 (PDF - 2.1 MB) |
The Path to Social Complexity (PDF) |
| Lec7 |
Pre-Neolithic Adaptations and the Natufian in the Near East |
Sheet 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 Redman, C. L. The Rise of Civilization: From Early Farming to Urban Society in the Ancient Near East. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman, 1978. ISBN: 0716700557.
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| Lec8 |
Domestication: Recognition, Processes and Impact |
Sheet 5 (cont.) |
The Domestication Process (PDF) |
| Lec9 |
Origins and Expansion of Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Near East Context |
Sheet 6 (PDF) |
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| Lec10 |
Early Village Farming Communities: Geographic Expansion, Emerging Class Stratification and Centralization of Religion |
Sheet 6 (cont.) |
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| Lec11 |
The Earliest Stages of Urbanization: Ubaid and Eridu |
Sheet 7 (PDF) |
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| Lec12 |
Urbanization and City States: Uruk, Civilization and Writing |
Sheet 7 (cont.) |
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| Lec13 |
Urbanization and City States: Ur Political and Social Environments, Material Achievements, the Critical Factors Interacting in the Development of Stratified Society in the Near East |
Sheet 8 (PDF) |
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| Lec14 |
Refocusing on the Comparative Theme: Eurasia - The Americas |
Sheet 8 (cont.) |
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| Unit 3 - The Mesoamerica Case Study |
| Lec15 |
Peopling of The Americas. The Mesoamerican Environmental Setting: Lowlands and Highlands |
Sheet 9 (PDF) |
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| Lec16 |
Plant and Animal Domestication and the Emergence of Settled Village Life: Tehuacan and Oaxaca |
Sheet 10 (PDF) |
Wave Model of Peopling the New World (PDF) |
| Lec17 |
Plant and Animal Domestication and the Emergence of Settled Village Life: Comparing Processes in Mesoamerica and the Near East |
Sheet 10 (cont.) |
Tehuacan Valley Sequence (PDF) |
| Lec18 |
The Emergence of the Olmec and Early Lowland Civilization - La Venta |
Sheet 11 (PDF) |
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| Lec19 |
Olmec Accomplishments |
Sheet 11 (cont.) |
Notes on Recently Discovered Olmec Writing (PDF) |
| Lec20 |
The Maya: The Rise of Tropical Rain Forest City-states |
Sheet 12 (PDF) |
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| Lec21 |
Maya Achievements and the Decline of the Classic Maya |
Sheet 12 (cont.) |
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| Lec22 |
Prof. Dorothy Hosler: West Mexican Metallurgy and its Importance in Interregional Contact |
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| Lec23 |
Teotihuacan: The Rise and Fall of a Highland State: its Social Consequences |
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| Unit 4 - Decline and Collapse |
| Lec24 |
Decline of Early Civilizations - Social, Political, Economic - An Examination of Potential Causes in Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica |
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Notes on Societal Collapse: Maya and Sumer (PDF) |
| Lec25 |
Decline of Early Civilizations (cont.) |
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