Ancient North America ANTH 231 Susan Rowley

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Ancient North AmericaANTH 231Susan Rowley
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Introduction

• Welcome to the museum
• Home of the Museum of Anthropology and the
  Laboratory of Archaeology (LOA)
• Facilities for your use in this course
• Collections of the museum
• Collections of the LOA
• Library of the LOA
• Teaching lab of the LOA

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Expectations

• Yours
• Information is clearly presented
• Lectures add to the text
• Mine
• Attend classes
• Complete assignments
• Ask questions

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Grading for this course

• Two examinations
• Mid-term (20)
• Final (30)
• A paper outline and preliminary bibliography
  (10)
• A paper (25)
• Attendance at lab classes (10)
• Experiment worksheet (5)

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A few questions
These are to help me frame the information we
will be covering
Faculty? - Arts, Science, other?
Year - First? Second? Other?
Other AnSo courses?
Other Archaeology courses? 103? 232?
Have you written a paper before?
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The course

• We will be covering all of North America in only
  25 classes!
• We will be following the order of the text.
• Issues of presentation and ordering
  notwithstanding

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Themes

• Diversity
• Adaptation
• Change
• Continuity

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The earliest known sites

• We will start by discussing the interpretation of
  past societies.
• Then I will introduce the earliest known sites in
  North America

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The Great Plains

• Bison hunters (Photo reconstruction of Head
  Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta as far back as
  3,000 B.P.)
• Farmers

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The Arctic

• Life on the sea ice
• Long summer days long winter nights
• (Photo of a ca. 4250 BP maskette)

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The West

• The NWC And California (Photo of Xatem,
  excavations here go back 8,000 years)
• The Southwest (Photo of Mesa Verde ca. A.D. 1200)

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The Eastern Woodlands

• Hunters and gatherers
• Farmers
• Traders
• Earliest point of contact (outside the far north)
  with Europeans
• (Photo Birdman tablet from Cahokia ca. A.D.
  1150)

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See you next class