ANTH 4170 - Mesoamerican Archaeology

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ANTH 2030 with a grade C or higher, or consent of instructor.
Description
This course highlights some of the major cultural achievements of Mesoamerican peoples. The class begins with the peopling of the New World over 10,000 years ago and proceeds to cover the origins of agriculture and the development of complex societies from the Olmec to the Aztec. The course draws from the rich iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological data of the region to explore concepts and specific sites up until the time of Spanish Contact, A.D.1521.