Ancient Civilizations of North America

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Call Number: DVD 970.01 Ba Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / History / Ancient / Ancient Civilizations Of North America
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Course no. 3900.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Disc 1. The unknown story of Ancient North America -- The first human migrations to the Americas -- Clovis man : America's first culture -- The Archaic period : diversity begins -- Late Archaic innovations -- Poverty Point: North America's first city.
Disc 2. Medicine wheels of the Great Plains -- Adena culture and the early Woodlands period -- The Hopewell and their massive earthworks -- The origins of Mississippian culture -- The Mississippian City of Cahokia -- The wider Mississippian world.
Disc 3. De Soto versus the Mississippians -- The ancient southwest : discovering diversity -- The basketmaker culture -- The Mogollon culture -- The Hohokam : masters of the desert -- The ancestral Pueblo.
Disc 4. The Chaco phenomenon -- Archaeoastronomy in the ancient southwest -- The periphery of the ancient southwest -- Late period cultures of the Pacific Coast -- Late period cultures of the Great Plains -- The Iroquois and Algonquians before contact.
Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart.
DVD.

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