Spring Semester 2004
Jeffrey Vanderziel

WEEK 2
Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XI: A description of the Indians established in that State.
Lecture Notes (In order to use the lecture notes, you need to have the "Power Point" program installed on your computer).

Suggested Additional Readings:
"Nationalism and Archaeology: On the Constructions of Nations and the Reconstructions of the Remote past" by Philip L. Kohl in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 27. (1998), pp. 223-246.
"Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist" by Bruce G. Trigger in Man, New Series, Vol. 19, No. 3. (Sep., 1984), pp. 355-370.

WEEK 3
Lecture Notes

WEEK 4
Wheat, Joe Ben. "A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill" in Scientific American, January 1967. Reprinted in Prehistoric Times. 1983. Edited by Brian Fagan, pp. 109-117.
Lecture Notes

WEEK 5
Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 1: "The America's Earliest Humans" , pages 1-20.
Lecture Notes

WEEKS 6 to 9: Regional Chronologies:
Arctic and Sub-Arctic: Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 9:480-49
Northwest Coast: Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 8:429-439
California and Great Basin: Heizer, Robert F. and Albert B. Elsasser 1980. The Natural World of the California Indians. Chapter 7
Southwest:
Great Plains: Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 6:287-297
The Northeastern Woodlands: Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 5:224-238
The Southeastern Woodlands: Kehoe, Alice B. North American Indians. A Comprehensive Account. 1992. Prentice-Hall: Englewood, NJ. Chapter 4:160-177
Lecture Notes: Week 6 (Arctic/Sub-Arctic)
Lecture Notes: Week 7 (Northwest Coast/California)
Lecture Notes: Week 8 (Southwest)
Lecture Notes: Week 9 (Great Plains/Great Basin)

CURRENT TOPICS: PLANT DOMESTICATION

Cordell, Linda S., Stephen R. Durand, Ronald C. Antweiler and Howard E. Taylor. 2001. "Toward Linking Maize Chemistry to Archaeological
Agricultural Sites in the North American Southwest" in Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 28, 501–513
Freitasa, Fabio Oliveira Freitasa, Gerhard Bendela, Robin G. Allabyb, Terence A. Brown. 2003. "DNA from primitive maize landraces and archaeological remains: implications for the domestication of maize and its expansion into South America" in Journal of Archaeological Science 00 (2003) 1–8
Fritz, Gayle J. 1994. "Are the First American Farmers Getting Younger?" in Current Anthropology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 305-309.
Gremillion, Kristen J.; Sobolik, Kristin D. 1996. "Dietary Variability among Prehistoric Forager-Farmers of Eastern North America" in Current Anthropology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 529-539.
Riley, Thomas J.; Edging, Richard; Rossen, Jack. 1990. "Cultigens in Prehistoric Eastern North America: Changing Paradigms" in Current Anthropology, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 525-541

CURRENT TOPICS: STATE-LEVEL SOCIETIES IN NORTH AMERICA?

Anderson, David G. 1996. "Fluctuations Between Simple and Complex Chiefdoms: Cycling in the Late Prehistoric Southeast". In: Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by John F. Scarry. University of Florida Press, pp. 231-253
Earle, Timothy K. 1987. "Chiefdoms in Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspective" in Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 16, pp. 279-308.
Hally, David J. 1996. "Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms". In: Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by John F. Scarry. University of Florida Press, pp. 92-127.
Knight, Vernon James, Jr. 1997. "Some Developmental Parallels Between Cahokia and Moundville". In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T. P. Pauketat and T. E. Emerson, pp. 229-268. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Milner, George R. 1996. "Development and Dissolution of a Mississippian Society in the American Bottom, Illinois". In: Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by John F. Scarry. University of Florida Press, pp. 27-52.
Stoltman, James B.1978. "Temporal Models in Prehistory: An Example From Eastern North America" in Current Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 703-74.

CURRENT TOPICS: SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Cannibalism

Abler, Thomas S. 1980. "Iroquois Cannibalism: Fact not Fiction" in Ethnohistory, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 30-316
Malar, Richard A., Banks L. Leonard, Brian R. Billman, Patricia M. Lambertk & Jennifer E. Marlar. 2000. "Biochemical evidence of cannibalism at a prehistoric Puebloan site in southwestern Colorado", in Nature, vol. 407, pp. 74-78

Cameron, Catherine M. 1999. "Room Size, Organization of Construction, and Archaeological Interpretation in the Puebloan Southwest" in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 18, 201–239.
Ezzo, Joseph A. Ezzo, Clark M. Johnson, T. Douglas Price. 1997. "Analytical Perspectives on Prehistoric Migration: A Case
Study From East-Central Arizona" in Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 24, pp.447–466
Ezzo, Joseph A., T. Douglas Price. 2002. "Migration, Regional Reorganization, and Spatial Group Composition at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona" in Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 29, pp. 499–520
Lekson, Stephen H. 2001. "Flight of the Anasazi", in Archaeology, Sep/Oct2001, Vol. 54 Issue 5, pp 44-48

CURRENT TOPICS: REPATRIATION AND REBURIAL: NAGPRA

Ferguson, T. J. 1996. "Native Americans and the Practice of Archaeology" in Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 25, pp. 63-79
Haas, Jonathan. 1996. "Power, Objects, and a Voice for Anthropology" in Current Anthropology, Special Issue Anthropology in Public, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
Johnson, Greg. 2002. "Tradition, Authority and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act", in Religion vol. 32, 355–381
Merrill, William L.; Ladd, Edmund J.; Ferguson, T. J. 1993. "The Return of the Ahayu:da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution" in Current Anthropology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 523-567
Rose, Jerome C.; Green, Thomas J.; Green, Victoria D. 1996."NAGPRA is Forever: Osteology and the Repatriation of Skeletons" in
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 25, pp. 81-103.