Date	Topic	Assignment
January 7	What is Old World Archaeology?
January 9	The Neolithic Revolution and Multiple Explanations	Text pp. 41-79
January 12	State Formation and Old World Archaeology	Text pp. 353-363
January 14	In-class discussion or exercise
January 16	Enter Mesopotamia	Text pp. 92-105
January 19	Martin Luther King Day	No Class
January 21	Ubaid	Text pp. 106-112
January 23	Uruk and the Uruk Expansion	Text pp. 139-153
January 26	Discussion or exercise
January 28	Development of Writing in Mesopotamia	“The context of the emergence of writing in Mesopotamia” (on reserve)
January 30	Proto-Elamite Expansion	Text pp. 153-157
February 2	The Early Dynastic Period	Text pp. 169-191
February 4	Discussion, Film, or Exercise	Woolley “The Royal Tombs of Ur” (on reserve)
February 6	The Dynasty of Akkad—Sargon
February 9	Ur III and Isin-Larsa	“The Temple” (on reserve)
February 11	Exercise and Discussion	Term paper topics due
February 13	Meanwhile, in Egypt…	“The rise of complex societies in Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa” (on reserve)
February 16	Egypt and the Predynastic	Text pp. 124-138
February 18	Rise of Statehood in Egypt
February 20	Pyramids and the Old Kingdom
February 23	The First Intermediate Period	“Time and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries” (on reserve)
February 25	The Middle Kingdom	“Trampling the Foreign Lands” (on reserve)
February 27	The 2^nd Intermediate period and early New Kingdom
March 2	Discussion, Film, or Exercise
March 4	Midterm Review Session	Exam Review Sheet
March 6	Midterm Exam
March 9-13	Spring Break	No Classs!
March 16	The early XVIIIth Dynasty
March 18	The Sun Kings—Akhenaten & Tutankhamon
March 20	Apres la Deluge: The 19^th Dynasty and the Outside World	“All the King’s sons” (on reserve) Your thesis statements are due today!
March 23	Egypt Absorption Day	“The Coming of the Sea Peoples” (on reserve)
March 25	The Indus Valley Culture	Text pp. 191-215
March 27	Mysteries of the Indus
March 30	Indus Absorption day
April 1	The Oxus Culture	Text pp. 215-227
April 3	Interaction with the Indus	Text pp. 228-232
April 6	Missing Links—Nomads and Barbarians
April 8	Term Paper Day	No Class, but feel free to visit me!
April 10	State Holiday	No Class
April 13	To The Year 1900 B.C.—The Near East	Term papers due
April 15	Wessex	“Composing Avebury” (on reserve)
April 17	The Sacred Landscape	“The age of Stonehenge”
April 20	Exercise
April 22	Archaeology and Politics
April 24	Overview of Old World Archaeology
April 27	Final Review Session	Last Day of Class!