ANTHROPOLOGY
324
SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Spring 2003
In this course I survey the development of
civilization in the Central Andes from its emergence on the Peruvian coast
around 3000 B.C. to the European conquest of the area in the 16th century
A.D. In this survey I shall examine
the various methods used by modern scholars to study Andean pre-Columbian
civilizations through archaeology, history and ethnology, discussing how these
approaches differ in their theoretical and methodological applications and in
their potential for reconstructing the past.
I focus on the best- known Central Andean
civilization, that of the 15th century AD Inca, and its two chief
predecessors - the Titicaca Basin of southern highland Peru and western
Bolivia, and the Pacific Coastal Plain of northern Peru. The people of these regions created long
traditions of urban society with complex systems of subsistence technology,
settlement, political structure, artistic expression, and religious
ideology. I shall explore the
histories of these important Andean civilizations and the neighboring areas
that they dominated, examining the ways in which their development was
influenced by ecological, technological, cultural and ideological factors. In addition I discuss the ways in which
their modern descendants have modified these same Andean traditional strategies
in addressing their more recent historic circumstances.
Readings
The
required books for this course are:
Garth
Bawden. 1996. The Moche. Oxford,
Blackwell.
Alan
L. Kolata. 1993. The Tiwanaku. Oxford, Blackwell.
Michael
E. Moseley.1992. The Incas and their
Ancestors. London, Thames and
Hudson.
In
addition all teaching notes can be found on the web at: http://www.unm.edu/~gbawden/
plus
suffix as noted in the individual class headings in the schedule.
ANTHROPOLOGY 324
Spring 2003
12.30 - 1.45
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Dane Smith Hall, Room 325
Instructor: Garth Bawden.
Telephone: 277-4405 (Dionne Rodriguez)
e-mail: gbawden@unm.edu
Offices: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology 121
& Anthropology Annex, B09
Office
Hours: Wednesday 2.00-4.00 pm
Assistant
Instructor: Veronica Arias
e-mail
: arias@unm.edu.
Office: Anthropology Annex, B09
Office
Hours: TBA
Class
Schedule
Introduction
Jan
21: General Introduction.
Jan
23: Environmental factors. 324-environ/324-environ.htm]
Jan
28: Review of Andean Research and
Culture History. 324-research/324-research.htm
Readings
for this section:
Bawden. Chapters 1 and 2.
Kolata. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Moseley. Chapters 1 and 2.
Andean Social Organization and Structure
Jan
30: The Ayllu. 324-ayllu/324-ayllu.htm
Feb
4: Andean Land Management and Sacred
Geography. 324-land/324-land.htm
Feb
6: Basic Andean Cosmology. 324-cosmology/324-cosmology.htm
Feb
11: Shamanism and Religious
Practice. 324-shamanism/324-shamanism.htm
Readings
for this section:
Bawden. Chapter 5 (139-149).
Moseley. Chapter 3.
Inca Political Organization
Feb
13: Inca Video. 324-IncOrigin/324-IncOrigin.htm
Feb
18: Inca Origins and Myths.
Feb
20: The Archaeology of Cuzco and its
Hinterland. 324-IncCuzco/324-IncCuzco.htm
Feb
25: Inca Imperial Cosmology and
Political Organization. 324-IncAdmin/324-IncAdmin.htm
Feb
27: Regional Inca Archaeology. 324-IncReg/324-IncReg.htm
Readings
for this Section
Kolata: Chapter 6 (205-214).
Moseley: Chapter 3.
Mar
4: First Hour Exam.
Origins of Coastal Andean Civilization
Mar
6: Preceramic Period Origins. 324-Preceramic/324-Preceramic.htm
Mar
11: Initial Period Roots. 324- Initial/324-Initial.htm
Reading
for this Section
Moseley. Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
Peruvian North Coast
Tradition
Mar
13: Moche Antecedents. 324-MochOrigins/324-MochOrigins.htm
[Mar16-22:
Spring Break]
Mar
25: Moche Archaeology. 324-MArcheo/324-MArcheo.htm
Mar
27: Moche Political Ideology. 324-MPol/324-MPol.htm
Apr
1: The end of the Moche Period. 324-MLateA/324-MLateA.htm
324-MLateB/324-MlateB.htm
Apr.3: The Emergence of Chimú and Sicán 324-MTransition/324-MTransition.htm
Apr
8: The Chimú State and Chanchan. 324-ChState/324-ChState.htm
[Apr
10: No Class]
Apr
15: Second Hour Exam
Readings
for this Section
Bawden. Chapters 2 (Review) and 3 to end of book.
Moseley. Chapters 7 (161-190), 8 (209-216) and 9
(248-261).
The Southern Highland
(Titicaca Basin) Tradition
Apr
17: Initial Period Origins. 324-TOrigins/324-TOrigins.htm
Apr
22: The dominance of Tiwanaku. 324-TRise/324-TRise.htm
Apr
24: The Tiwanaku Hinterland. 324-THint/324-THint.htm
Apr
29: The Tiwanaku Empire. 324-TEmp/324-TEmp.htm
May
1: Middle Horizon Connections: The Wari
Empire. 324-Wari/324-Wari.htm
May
6: Tiwanaku Collapse and its Aftermath
May
8: Review
Readings
for this Section.
Kolata. Chapters 3 (Review) and 4 to end of book.
Moseley. Chapters 6 (145-152), 7 (201-208), 8
(216-230) and 9 (231-248).
May
15 Final Exam