1.

January 16 - Introduction

2.

January 18 - The Southwest: Environmental and Cultural Setting

read Plog textbook pp. 7-29

3.

January 23 - Southwestern Archaeology - Research History and Ethnography

read Plog textbook pp 29-36.

Downum (1993) Southwestern Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future.

4.

January 25 - Archaeological Research Methods

read Plog textbook pp. 71-81

Kuwanwisiwma & Ferguson (2004) "Ang Kuktota--Hopi Ancestral Sites and Cultural Landscapes"

W1: read and come prepared to discuss Dongoske et al. (1997) "Archaeological Cultures and Cultural Affiliation" . Follow writeup instructions.

5.

January 30 -The Earliest Americans: The Peopling of the Americas and the PaleoIndian Period

read Plog textbook, pp. 37-45

read, bring to class & be ready to discuss: Archaeology Southwest 14(2) "Rethinking the Peopling of the Americas"

W1: due in class Writeup of Dongoske et al. (1997)

6.

February 1 - The Archaic Period and the Beginnings of Cultivation

read Plog textbook pp. 46-55

Nabhan (1992) "Native American Cornucopia"

Cushing (1979[1884]) "Zuni Farming: Starting a New Field," "Corn Raising: The Decay of the Seed" and "Corn Raising: The Regeneration of the Seed" (pp. 249-281)
Archaeology Southwest 13(1) Early Maize in the Southwest

E1: pass out in class: Botanical Garden - Exploration #1

7.

February 6 - Early Pithouse Dwellers

read Plog textbook, pp. 56-70

8.

February 8 - Pottery (Guest)

read Plog textbook pp. 66-67

9.

February 13 - Dating Techniques

read Plog textbook pp. 30-31

E1: due in class Botanical Garden - Exploration #1

E2: pass out in class Interpreting Tree Ring Dates - Exploration #2 

10.

February 15 - Mimbres Villages and the Process of Aggregation (Guest)

read Plog textbook pp. 71-72, 76-78, 87-93

Archaeology Southwest 17(4) Archaeology and Meaning of Mimbres

11.

February 20 -Social Organization and Pueblo I

read Plog textbook section on "The Anasazi," pp. 78-81

12.

February 22-Pueblo II and the Chaco Phenomenon

read Plog textbook pp. 93-117

Archaeology Southwest 14(1) Ancient Chaco's New History

E2: due in class Tree Ring Dating - Exploration #2

13.

February 27 - Developments at Chaco

W2: read and come ready to discuss Bernardini (1999) "Reassessing the Scale...Pueblo Bonito..."

14.

March 1 -The Chaco Regional System

W2: due in class Writeup of Bernardini (1999)

15.

March 6 : Review Session

16

March 8 - FIRST TEST

17.

March 20 - The End of Chaco and Post-Chacoan Organization: the Zuni Region

read Kintigh et al. (1996) "Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site"

18.

March 22 - The Occupation & Abandonment of the Mesa Verde and Four Corners Regions (Guest)

read Plog textbook, pp 118-153, focus on pp. 151-153.

W3: read and come prepared to discuss Van West (1996) "Agricultural Potential ..."

19.

March 27 - Reconfiguring the Social Landscape after AD 1300: Religion, Migration and Conflict

read Plog textbook, pp. 158-171,179-193

W3: due in class Writeup of Van West (1996)

20.

March 29 - Large Towns, Elites and Social Complexity in the Western Pueblo Area

21.

April 3 - The Rio Grande, Specialization and Exchange

read Plog textbook pp. 154-158

W4: read and come prepared to discuss Spielmann (1998) "Ritual Influences . . . Glaze A Ceramics"

22.

April 5 - The Development of the Hohokam and the Hohokam Regional System

read Plog textbook pp. 81-86

Archaeology Southwest 14(3) Rewriting Prehistory in the Hohokam Heartland

Archaeology Southwest 18(4) The Archaeological Heritage of the Santa Cruz Valley

W4: due in class Writeup of Spielmann (1998)

E3: pass out in class: Pueblo Grande Labor Estimate - Exploration #3

23.

April 10 - Hohokam Classic (Guest)

read Plog textbook pp. 134-146, 178-179

Abbott (2002) "Ceramic Markers of Ancient Irrigation Communities"

Archaeology Southwest 18(1) One Valley, Many Histories

Film: Under these Fields (15 min.)

24.

April 12 - Hohokam and the Salado (Guest)

read Rice and Redman (1993) "Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert" 

E3: due in class Pueblo Grande Labor Estimate - Exploration 3

25.

April 17 - Casas Grandes  

read Plog textbook pp. 172-178

Archaeology Southwest 17(2) The Casas Grandes Community

26.

April 19 - European Contact, Its Consequences, and the Pueblo Revolt

read Plog textbook pp. 181-198

Archaeology Southwest 19(1) The Quest for Coronado

27.

April 24 - Historic Preservation and Contemporary Native Americans in the Southwest

read Ferguson and Anyon (2001) Hopi and Zuni Cultural Landscapes

Ferguson and Eriacho (1990) "Ahayu:da/Zuni War Gods"

Nabhan (1982) "Throwing Up the Clouds"

Swentzell (1988) "Remembering Tewa Pueblo Houses and Spaces"

course evaluations in class

Review Session (time and place TBA)

28.

April 26- No Class (SAA annual meeting)

29.

May 1 - SECOND TEST