Possible Paper Topic List
Anthropology 207
Decision due September 24
Topics with fewer sources are asterisked *
1.
Domestication of
plants or animals in: North America,
Mexico, South America, the Fertile Crescent, Asia, Africa, or the Pacific
Islands
2.
The effect of
environment and human culture
3.
The peopling of the
Americas
4.
Ur and the invention
of writing
5.
The first
colonialism—the Uruk expansion
6.
*The response to the
first colonialism—the Proto-Elamite expansion
7.
The first cultural
collapse—the PPNB collapse
8.
Mayan writing
9.
The first city in
North America—Cahokia
10.
Middle Mississippian
culture in North America
11.
Late Mississippian
culture in North America
12.
European contact in
North America, South America, or Mexico
13.
*The Wessex culture in
England
14.
*Linear Bandkeramik
Culture (LBK) in Europe—the expansion of farming into Europe
15.
The Shang Dynasty of
China
16.
The Zhou Dynasty of
China
17.
*The Xia Dynasty of
China
18.
*Shamanism
19.
The very short-lived
Qin dynasty of China
20.
The Olmecs
21.
The Aztecs
22.
The Zapotecs
23.
The Toltecs
24.
Chichen Itza
25.
Archaeological Theory
26.
Science and
Archaeology
27.
Ethnographic analogy
in archaeology
28.
Maize and culture
29.
The Indus Civilization
30.
The Oxus Civilization
(Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex)
31.
The Old Kingdom of
Egypt
32.
Nubia and Egypt
33.
The Middle Kingdom of
Egypt
34.
The New Kingdom of
Egypt
35.
Any of the
Intermediate Periods of Egypt
36.
Colonialism in
Prehistory
37.
Geology and
Archaeology
38.
Problems in
Archaeological Interpretation
39.
The site of Moundville
in Alabama
40.
The Poverty Point site
in Louisiana
41.
North Carolina
archaeology in: Paleoindian period, Archaic period, Woodland period,
Mississippian period, proto-historic/Contact period, or Historic period
42.
Historic Archaeology
43.
Slave archaeology
44.
Cultural Resource
Management and modern archaeological problems
45.
The Native American
Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the politics of modern
archaeology
46.
Museums and
archaeology