Great courses (Compact disc)

Title from disc label

Learn about ancient North Americans' culture and achievements

24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture

Compact discs

"Course no. 3900."

Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title; includes lecture outlines and notes, and bibliography

Unabridged

Edwin Barnhart, lecturer

Volume 1 of 2, Disc 1. 1.

Unknown story of ancient North America --

2.

First human migrations to the Americas --

Disc 2. 3.

Clovis man: America's first culture --

4.

Archaic period: diversity begins --

Disc 3. 5.

Late archaic innovations --

6.

Poverty Point: North America's first city --

Disc 4. 7.

Medicine wheels of the Great Plains --

8.

Adena culture and the early Woodlands period --

Disc 5. 9.

Hopewell and their massive earthworks --

10.

Origins of Mississippian culture --

Disc 6. 11.

Mississippian city of Cahokia --

12.

Wider Mississippian world

Volume 2 of 2, Disc 7. 13.

De Soto versus the Mississippians --

14.

Ancient Southwest: discovering diversity --

Disc 8. 15.

Basketmaker culture --

16.

Mogollon culture --

Disc 9. 17.

Hohokam: masters of the desert --

18.

Ancestral pueblo --

Disc 10. 19.

Chaco phenomenon --

20.

Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient Southwest --

Disc 11. 21.

Periphery of the Ancient Southwest --

22.

Late period cultures of the Pacific Coast --

Disc 12. 23.

Late period cultures of the Great Plains --

24.

Iroquois and Algonquians before contact