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

 

Syllabus

 

Exam 1 Study Guide

Exam 1 Answer Key

 

Exam 2 Study Guide

Exam 2 Answer Key

Exam 1 & 2 Scores

 

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Monday April 29, 2002

114 EES (Regular Classroom)

2:30pm

 

 

January 8

Some Common Ways of Knowing About The Past

 

January 10

Meanings of Prehistoric

Goals of Archaeology

Anthropology

 

January 15

Basic Assumptions

Context

Site

Chronology

 

January 17

Evolution Lecture 1

Evolution Lecture 2

Evolution Lecture 3

Evolution Lecture 4

 

January 22

Phylogeny

Evidence Concerning Paleolithic Humans

Human Evolution Chart

Pleistocene

 

January 24

Homo Erectus

Archaic Humans

Tools

Mitochondrial DNA

 

January 31

Competing Hypotheses

Creative Explosion

 

February 5

Chronology of Neanderthals and “Modern” Humans

Cave Sites

Upper Paleolithic Sites

 

February 12

Domestication

 

February 14

Evidence for Domestication in the Archaeological Record

Process of Domestication

Human Demography

 

February 19

Chronology of Domestication in the Near East

Origins of Agriculture in the Near East

Theories of the Origins of Agriculture

 

February 21

Slide Summary

Consequences of the Food Producing Revolution

 

February 28

Political Evolution

Creative Explosion Debate

Civilizations

V. Gordon Childe’s Criteria for Urban Revolution

Egalitarian Societies

Institutions

 

March 12

Definition of City

Sumerian Cities

Chronology of Early Sumerian Cities

Ubadian Archaeological Culture

 

March 14

Uruk Period

 

March 19

Sumerian Writing

 

March 26

Sumerian Deities

Functions of Religion in Early Civilizations

 

March 28

Ancient Egyptian Chronology

Ancient Egyptian Agrarian Economy

Ancient Egyptian Language and Writing

 

April 9

Egyptian Archaic Period

 

April 11

Old Kingdom

Scorpion King

 

Week of April 15

Egyptian Religion

Egyptian Gods

Egyptian Officials

Egyptian Sociopolitical Organization

 

Week of April 22

Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization