Date	Topic	Assignment
January 6	What is Old World Archaeology?
January 8	The Neolithic Revolution and Multiple Explanations	Text pp. 41-79
January 11	State Formation and Old World Archaeology	Text pp. 353-363
January 13	In-class discussion or exercise
January 15	Enter Mesopotamia	Text pp. 92-105
January 18	Martin Luther King Day	No Class
January 20	Ubaid	Text pp. 106-112
January 22	Uruk and the Uruk Expansion	Text pp. 139-153
January 25	Discussion or exercise
January 27	Development of Writing in Mesopotamia	“The context of the emergence of writing in Mesopotamia” (on reserve)
January 29	Proto-Elamite Expansion	Text pp. 153-157
February 1	The Early Dynastic Period	Text pp. 169-191
February 3	Discussion, Film, or Exercise	Woolley “The Royal Tombs of Ur” (on reserve)
February 5	The Dynasty of Akkad—Sargon
February 8	Ur III and Isin-Larsa	“The Temple” (on reserve)
February 10	Exercise and Discussion	Term paper topics due
February 13	Meanwhile, in Egypt…	“The origin of Ancient Egyptian Society” (on reserve)
February 15	Egypt and the Predynastic	Text pp. 124-138
February 17	Rise of Statehood in Egypt
February 19	Pyramids and the Old Kingdom
February 22	Exercise and Discussion
February 24	The First Intermediate Period	“Time and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries” (on reserve)
February 26	The Middle Kingdom	“Trampling the Foreign Lands” (on reserve)
March 1	Discussion, Film, or Exercise
March 3	Midterm Review Session	Exam Review Sheet
March 5	Midterm Exam
March 6-14	Spring Break	No Classs!
March 15	The 2^nd Intermediate period and early New Kingdom
March 17	The early XVIIIth Dynasty	Thesis Statements due
March 19	The Sun Kings—Akhenaten & Tutankhamon
March 22	Exercise and Discussion
March 24	Apres la Deluge: The 19^th Dynasty and the Outside World	“All the King’s sons” (on reserve)
March 26	The Sea Peoples	“The Coming of the Sea Peoples” (on reserve)
March 29	Egypt Absorption Day	No readings
March 31	The Indus Valley Culture	Text pp. 191-215
April 2	Good Friday Holiday	No Class
April 5	Mysteries of the Indus
April 7	The Oxus Culture	Text pp. 215-227
April 9	Interaction with the Indus	Text pp. 228-232
April 12	Missing Links—Nomads and Barbarians	Term papers due
April 14	No class--please complete your exercise
April 16	Day off!	No Class
April 19	To 1900 BC
April 21	Archaeology and Politics
April 23	Overview of Old World Archaeology
April 26	Final Review Session	Last Day of Class!