CF/ANTH 3334 Fall Semester 2007 Lecture Schedule !Syllabus Update!
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Theme One: making Sense of the Past |
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Aug 24 |
Pseudoscience and archaeology : a general introduction to the course. A glimpse at why people make fantastic claims in archaeology (Feder Chapter 1, science and pseudoscience.) The Gullibility Problem in general (Sagan, The Most Precious Thing) Why scientists care about the scientific method (Sagan, Science and Hope. Course Pack Reader, "The Nature and Dangers of Cult Archaeology").)
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Aug 27 |
Telling the truth about the past , or how you know what you know (Feder Chapter 2 , Sagan, Chapter 12, Course Pack Reader: "ETs Rafts, and Runestones: Confronting Pseudoarchaeology in the Classroom")
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Aug 29 |
Bold Conjecture and Archaeology: An Example from the Maya Civilization (Sagan Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 17)
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Theme Two: Giants, Monsters, and other Archaeological Hoaxes |
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Aug 31 |
The Cardiff Giant, Suckers in New York (Feder, Chapter 3, Williams Chapter 4 in the Course Pack Reader ) Documentary film on the Cardiff Giant with a focus on how to set up a good archaeological hoax and get popular interest. |
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Sep 05 |
Piltdown Man (Feder, Chapter 4, Dawson ’s Dawn Man, or why serious scientists got fooled into believing in an evolutionary dead end.) |
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Theme Three: Brave New World: Imagining the Discovery of America |
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Sep 07 |
Fakery and the Earliest Americans (Williams, Chapter 6, in the Course Pack Reader), Class discussion. |
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Sep 10 |
Who Really Discovered America? (Feder, Chapter 5, a review of the different theories for trans-oceanic contacts and migrations before Columbus, Williams, in the Course Pack Reader, Chapter 7 on Nineteenth Century revelations, explorations and “Discoveries” explaining the peopling of the Americas by ancient civilizations) |
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Sep 12 |
Lost Tribes, Found Continents, and Faithful Journeys: Pseudoscientific and faith-based views of New World Origins (Williams, Chapters 9 and 11, historical accounts of various theories, champions, and archaeologists’ responses in the early part of the Twentieth Century. John Clark's BYU Forum address on the Book of Mormon, in the course pack reader; Feder, Chapter 6, summarizes and reviews the basic arguments concerning diffusion to the Americas from the Old World.) |
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Sep 14 |
The Moundbuilders, A Vanished Race (Williams Chapters 2 and 3 in the Course Pack Reader.) |
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Sep 17 |
Myth of the Moundbuilders, the Real Story of Complex Society in North America (Feder Chapter 7 ) | |
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Sep 19 |
Dissecting the Giants, Fakes, and Early Americans and Moundbuilder Myth |
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Theme Four: Brave Old World: Atlantis, Primordial Mother Civilization, and Diffusionist Science |
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Sep 21 |
"Atlantis Uncovered” BBC Horizons film, (review Williams Chapter 7, Feder Chapter 8, “Lost, One Continent") |
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Sep 24 |
Lost Continents and Mother Cultures: Atlantis |
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Sep 26 |
Graham Hancock and the latest Pseudoscientific version of the lost original civilization (“Atlantis Reborn”, BBC Horizons film.) |
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Sep 28 |
"Hitler's search for the Holy Grail," a Michael Wood film. | film |
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Oct 01 |
Dissecting the Mother Culture Myth and Mid-Term Exam Review |
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Theme Five: The Not-so-New World, Trans-Oceanic Diffusion Before Columbus |
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Oct 03 |
Mid-Term Exam
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Oct 03 |
Research Topic Outline due today |
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Oct 5 |
The African Connection: Mexican Civilization inspired by ancient Egyptians and later West African voyagers (Ortiz de Montellano in the Course Pack Reader.) |
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Oct 08 |
The Chinese Connection: How Bronze Age Chinese May have inspired the Olmec Civilization of Mexico (Meggers in the Course Pack Reader). |
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Oct 10 |
1421 The Chinese Star Fleet Discovers America? Film ( Feder Chapter 5)
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Oct 12 |
The Jomon-Valdivia Ecuador Case : Betty Meggers gets serious with ancient similarities.
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Oct 15 |
The Vikings, Fakery and the Real Thing (Williams Chapter 9) |
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Oct 17 |
Dissecting Diffusion
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Theme Six: Aliens and the Human Past |
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Oct 19 |
Aliens and UFOs today, Generating X Files (Sagan Chapter 4 “Aliens” and Chapter 5 “Spoofing and Secrecy”) |
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Oct 19 |
Research Paper Due Today |
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Oct 22 |
Film: "Ancient Astronauts, the Mysteries Continue"
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Oct 24 |
Ancient ETs and Astronauts (Feder Chapter 9, Sagan Chapters 9 and 10.) |
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Oct 26 |
The Maya as Terrestrials rather than ETs , the Saga of a real Maya king. (Feder, Chapter 11 on Arguelles “Mayan Factor” and Chapter 11 on Pakal of Palenque .) |
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Oct 29 |
Dissecting Aliens
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Theme Seven: New Agers, Psychics, and the Maya |
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Oct 31 |
New Age Maya. Film, “Incidents of Travel at Chichen Itza” |
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Nov 02 |
Psychic Archaeology and ancient Ruins. (Feder, Chapter 10, Sagan Chapter 13, “Obsessed with Reality”, Williams Chapter 12)
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Nov 02 |
Research Papers graded and returned |
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Theme Eight: Creation, Evolution, and Archaeology |
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Nov 05 |
Creationism and Evolution (Feder Chapter 11)
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Nov 07 |
Film "God, Darwin and Dinosaurs".
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Nov 09 |
The Search for Noah's Ark and the Flood in Scientific Perspective (Feder Chapter 11)
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Nov 12 |
Archaeology and the Bible, a Test of Paradigms
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Nov 14 |
Film, "Who Were the Israelites?" and discussion of Scriptural Narrative and Science
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Nov 16 |
The Shroud of Turin : Artifacts, Relics, and Faith (Feder Chapter 11)
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Theme Nine: Fantastic Archaeology and Real Problems |
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Nov 26 |
Psychic and Religious Topics Dissection |
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Nov 28 |
Film "Who Owns the Past?" |
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Nov 30 |
Dimming the Lights Fantastic: Archaeology Theme Parks and Tourism
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Dec 03 |
This is no Indiana Jones Film: The Grim Facts of Looting
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Dec 05 |
Fantastic Trash: the Realities of the living in the Material World
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Dec 06 |
Ethics Dissection and Final Exam Review
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Dec 10 |
Final Exam Monday December 10, 3:00pm-6:00pm |
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