ANTH 009:
RISE OF CIVILZATION IN THE
OLD WORLD
TR 2:30-3:45
114 EES
Instructor: Prof. David Webster
Office: 323 Carpenter Building
Office
Hours:
12:00-2:00 TR, and by appointment
Teaching
Assistant:
Erick Rochette
E-mail: etr109@psu.edu
Office: 421 Carpenter Building
Office
Hours: W 11:00-12:00, R 9:00-10:00 (office hours
are held in the Matson Museum on the second floor of the Carpenter
Building), or by appointment
Monday April 29, 2002
114 EES (Regular Classroom)
2:30pm
Some Common
Ways of Knowing About The Past
January
15
January
17
Evidence Concerning
Paleolithic Humans
Evidence for
Domestication in the Archaeological Record
Origins of Agriculture in
the Near East
Theories of the Origins
of Agriculture
Consequences of the
Food Producing Revolution
V. Gordon Childe’s Criteria
for Urban Revolution
March
12
Chronology
of Early Sumerian Cities
Ubadian Archaeological
Culture
March
26
Functions of Religion in
Early Civilizations
March
28
Ancient Egyptian
Agrarian Economy
Ancient Egyptian
Language and Writing
Egyptian
Sociopolitical Organization