WEEK 4 - PRECERAMIC MESOAMERICA Required Reading: ; Flannery 1968b Suggested Reading: Coe 1981; Grove 1981; Coe 1995 (look at
the pictures!);Benson & de la Fuente 1996 (look at the pictures!)
Monday, September 6 - (LABOR DAY)
Wednesday, September 8 - Maize and early farming
Friday, September 10 - Theories on the origins of village life
WEEK 5 - OLMECS AND THE VALLEY OF OAXACA Required Reading: Mexico, Chapters 4 & 5; The
Maya, Chapter 2; The Art of Mesoamerica, Chapter 2; Grove 1997 Suggested Reading: Coe 1992
Monday, September 13 - Olmec civilization in the Middle Preclassic
Wednesday, September 15 - Olmecs outside the Gulf Coast "heartland"
Friday, September 17 - Early settlement in the Valley of Oaxaca
WEEK 6 - THE VALLEY OF OAXACA Required Reading: Mexico, Chapter 6 Suggested Reading: Blanton 1981; Blanton & Kowalewski
1981; Flannery & Marcus 1983; Marcus 1990
Monday, September 20 - FIRST EXAM
Wednesday, September 22 - Monte Albán I & II
Friday, September 24 - Monte Albán IIIA & IIIB
WEEK 7 - THE VALLEY OF MEXICO Required Reading: Mexico, Chapter 6; Millon 1981 Suggested Reading: Millon 1974 (look at the maps & pictures!)
Monday, September 27 - Settlement history in the Valley of Mexico
Wednesday, September 29 - The rise of Teotihuacan
Friday, October 1 - Early Teotihuacan
WEEK 8 - CLASSIC TEOTIHUACAN Required Reading: Mexico, Chapter 6; The Art of
Mesoamerica, Chapter 4 Suggested Reading: Berrin 1988; Berrin & Pasztory 1993
Monday, October 4 - Teotihuacan art and iconography
WEEK 10 - EARLY CLASSIC MAYA CIVILIZATION Required Reading: The Maya, Chapter 4; The Art of Mesoamerica,
Chapter 6 Suggested Reading: Coe 1967; Sharer 1994, Chapter 4; Schele
& Friedel 1990, Chapter 4; Schele & Miller, Chapters 1-2
Monday, October 18 - Origins of Maya Dynasties
Wednesday, October 20 - The iconography of kingship
Friday, October 22 - Tikal and Calakmul
Week 11 - LATE CLASSIC MAYA CIVILIZATION Required Reading: The Maya, Chapters 5 & 9; The
Art of Mesoamerica, Chapter 7 Suggested Reading: Sharer 1994, Chapter 5; Schele & Friedel
1990, Chapters 6-8; Friedel et al. 1993; Robertson 1983 (look at the pictures!);
Kerr 1989 (look at the pictures!); Fash 1991; Tedlock 1985
Monday, October 25 - Palenque
Wednesday, October 27 - Copán
Friday, October 29 - Yaxchilan
Week 12 - THE EPICLASSIC TO EARLY POSTCLASSIC TRANSITION Required Reading: The Maya, Chapters 6 & 7; Mexico,
Chapter 7;
The Art of Mesoamerica, Chapter 8 Suggested Reading: Sharer 1994, Chapter 6
Monday, November 1 - Classic Veracruz
Wednesday, November 3 - Cacaxtla, Cholula, and Xochicalco
Friday, November 5 - Toltec and Mixtec Civilization
Week 13 - LATE POSTCLASSIC CIVLIZATION Required Reading: Mexico, Chapter 8; Aztecs, Introduction
& Part I Suggested Reading: Diehl 1981; Diehl 1983
Monday, November 8 - SECOND EXAM
Wednesday, November 10 - The Mexica and the founding of Tenochtitlan
Friday, November 12 - Aztec Society
Week 14 - AZTEC CIVILIZATION I Required Reading: Aztecs, Part II; The Art of Mesoamerica,
Chapter 9 Suggested Reading: Pasztory 1983; Broda et al. 1988
Monday, November 15 - Aztec Art and Culture
Wednesday, November 17 - Aztec Religion
Friday, November 19 - Aztec Politics and Economics
WEEK 15 - AZTEC CIVILIZATION II Required Reading: Mexico, Chapter 9; Aztecs, Parts
III & IV Suggested Reading:Sahagun
Monday, November 22 - The Aztec State
Wednesday, November 24 - THANKSGIVING BREAK
WEEK 16 - AZTEC CIVILIZATION II Required Reading: Aztecs, Parts III & IV; The Maya,
Chapter 8; Mexico, Epilogue Suggested Reading:Sahagun
Monday, November 20 - Mexico on the Eve of Conquest
Wednesday, December 1 - Maya Civilization on the Eve of Conquest