Anthropology 200Y

2013/2014
Chazan
Introduction to Archaeology

Prof. Michael

Course Text:
Michael Chazan. World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through
Time. 2nd Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Canada.
Available at the University Bookstore.
Course Requirements:
Two quizzes: 10% each
Two Tests: 15% each
Four papers: 10% each
Tutorial Participation: 10%
Tests and quizzes will be in class. Quizzes will be 40 minutes long
and include only short answer questions, tests will be 90 minutes and
include longer answers. Tests are cumulative for the material covered
in the semester. For the Term 2 test only a small subset of the material
from Term 1 will be included. You will be given a study guide in
advance of each of the tests and quizzes. If you are going to be absent
for a test please contact your TA as early as possible to make
arrangements.
The requirements for the paper assignments vary and will be specified
to you at the time each paper is assigned.
If you feel a grading error has been made on your test, quiz or paper
please prepare a cover sheet (printed out, not hand written) and
submit this to your TA along with the test, quiz or paper. The cover
sheet must indicate precisely where you believe there is an error.
There is a 10% penalty per day for late assignments unless
arrangements are made in advance with your TA or you have medical
documentation.
Course Outline:
DATE

TOPIC

Sept. 9
Sept. 16

Class Intro
Arch. Method
History of
Archaeology
Contemporar

Sept. 23
Sept. 30

READING

Chpt. 1

ASSIGNMEN
T/
TUTORIAL*
EVALUATIO
N
No Tutorial
Field Arch.

Chpt. 2

Survey

Supplement

Debating

Oct. 7

y Issues in
Archaeologic
al Theory
Quiz
1/Human
Evolution
Intro.

al Reading
TBA
Intro Part 2

Oct. 14
Thanksgivin
g
Oct. 21

Early Homo

Chpt. 3

Oct. 28

Neanderthals

Chpt. 4

Nov. 4

Modern
Humans

Chpt. 5

Nov. 25
Dec. 2

Quiz 1

No Tutorial

Paper 1 Due

Stone Tools
Religion and
Evolution

No class

Nov. 11
Nov. 18

Theory

Art

No Class
Out of Africa

Chpt. 6

America and
Ontario
Test 1

Paper 2 Draft
Paper 2 Final
Due
Test 1

Paper 2
Draft
Review
Carbon 14
No Tutorial

Winter Holidays
Jan. 6

Origins of
Agriculture

Intro Part 3

Jan. 13

Near East

Chpt. 7

Jan. 20

Americas

Chpt. 8

Paper 3 Draft

Jan. 27

Diversity

Chpt. 9

Paper 3 Final
Due

Intro Part 4

Quiz 2

Feb. 3
Feb. 10

Quiz 2/Intro
Complexity
Complexity
without State

Feb. 17
Family Day

Ceramics

Chpt. 10

Harris
Matrix
Paper 3
Draft
Review
Politics and
Archaeolog
y
No Tutorial
TBA

No class

Feb. 24

Mesopotamia

Chpt. 11
Supplement
al Reading
TBA

March 3

Egypt

Chpt. 1

Paper 4 Draft

Paper 4
Draft
Review

Paper 4 Final
Due

TBA

March 10
March 17
March 24
March 31

Indus and
China
Mesoamerica
Andes
Test 2

Chpt. 12

No Tutorial

Chpt. 13
Chpt. 14

TBA
No Tutorial
Test 2

*Tutorial times and locations are available at

http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/timetable-2013-14/timetable-2013-14 .
Please attend the tutorial for which you are registered.