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Dec 12, 2024
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2024-2025 College Catalog
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ARC 205 - Introduction to Southwestern Prehistory 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods Study of the prehistory of the American Southwest from its earliest inhabitants to European contact. Includes anthropology and its subfields, basics of archaeology, the Southwest, Paleoindians, archaic peoples; Hohokam, Mogollon, Anasazi, and other Southwestern cultures; and late prehistoric and historic cultural change.
Information: Same as AIS 205 /ANT 205 . Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - HUM or SBS and C; Meets CTE - A&H or SBS and C.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Describe key concepts and terms in archaeology.
- Describe foraging cultures in the Southwest.
- Characterize and distinguish among settled village cultures in the Southwest.
- Discuss late-prehistoric cultural changes.
Performance Objectives:
- List the four subfields of anthropology.
- Define common archaeological terms, describe archaeological methods and discuss how archaeologists interpret the past.
- Describe the geography and resources of the Southwest.
- Explain current views on the arrival of Native ancestors in the New World in general and in the Southwest in particular.
- Describe foraging lifeways in the Paleoindian and Archaic cultures.
- Discuss the origins of farming and settled village life in the Southwest.
- Characterize settled farming cultures of the Hohokam, Mogollon, Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), and other cultures.
- Discuss late prehistoric and historic cultural changes.
Outline:
- Anthropology and its Subfields
- Biological (physical) anthropology
- Cultural (Sociocultural) anthropology
- Linguistic anthropology
- Archaeology
- Basics of Archaeology
- Archaeological materials
- Finding and excavating archaeological sites
- Dating archaeological materials
- Interpreting archaeological evidence
- Geography and Resources of the Southwest
- Extent of the Southwest
- Environments and resources in the Southwest
- Peopling of the New World
- Origins and spread of New World Peoples
- Earliest peoples in the Southwest
- Paleoindian and Archaic foragers
- Paleoindian cultures and lifeways
- Archaic cultures and lifeways
- Origins of farming and settled village life
- Settled village farming cultures
- Hohokam
- Location and environment
- Characteristics of cultural phases and changes over time
- Relationship to modern Native groups
- Mogollon
- Location and environment
- Characteristics of cultural phases and changes over time
- Relationship to modern Native groups
- Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
- Location and environment
- Characteristics of cultural phases and changes over time
- Relationship to modern Native groups
- Other Prehistoric Cultures
- Location and environment
- Characteristics of cutlural phases and changes over time
- Relationships to modern Native groups
- Late Prehistoric and Historic Cultural Change
- Abandonments and population movements
- Arrival of Athabaskans
- Arrival and impacts of the Spanish
Effective Term: Full Academic Year 2018/19
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