Great courses (DVD)

Course no. 3900

24 lectures (30 min. each)

Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart

DVD

Closed-captioned

Disc 1.

Unknown story of Ancient North America -- First human migrations to the Americas -- Clovis man : America's first culture -- 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 -- Hopewell and their massive earthworks -- Origins of Mississippian culture -- Mississippian City of Cahokia -- Wider Mississippian world

Disc 3.

De Soto versus the Mississippians -- Ancient southwest : discovering diversity -- Basketmaker culture -- Mogollon culture -- Hohokam : masters of the desert -- Ancestral Pueblo

Disc 4.

Chaco phenomenon -- Archaeoastronomy in the ancient southwest -- Periphery of the ancient southwest -- Late period cultures of the Pacific Coast -- Late period cultures of the Great Plains -- Iroquois and Algonquians before contact