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LIFE IN THE STONE AGE
Fall 2000 P210/G117 + (PR) G118; E400/G115 + (PR) G116 MW 2:30-3:45 RH 207
Practicum: Tom Dillard, Friday/Saturday, September 22-23
Course Objectives: An overview of human culture with an emphasis on modern humans from 100,000 years ago to the rise of civilization. Practical hands-on demonstration will include the making of stone tool, fire-making, paper and papyrus manufacture, metal casting, home and hearth crafts, and early writing. Lecture topics will provide a broad conceptual framework of connections, implications, and consequences of cultural development and technology.
Textbooks: Three are required. Each is in a paperback.
Cavalli-Sforza: Great Human Diasporas..............HUMAN
Wilson: Domestication of the Human Species.......DOME
Blankenship: Earth Knack, Stone Age Skills.........KNACK
Instructor: Clarke Johnson DDS, PhD Northwestern and the University of Chicago; IUN Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, Assistant Professor UIC College of Dentistry.
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. My office space is Lindenwood 230. Also, I'm usually in the office after lunch until my afternoon class at 2:30. If the door is closed, check with the department office, room 214. You may leave a message with the department secretary; I check with her regularly when I am on campus. Your visit and conversation are always welcome.
Telephone: My office phone number is 981-5601. There is voice mail. When you leave a message, clearly identify yourself and leave a legitimate phone number. I will return your call. You may call me at home after 6:00 P.M.; however, I am rarely home during the day and am often gone in the evening. The home number is (815) 939-4242. In the event of no answer, leave a message after the fourth ring. Due to telemarketers, you MUST identify yourself as from IUN! If I am slow to get back to you, you are not being ignored. This semester I'm also at UIC. I am here only Monday and Wednesday.
Email: cjohnson@iunhaw1.iun.indiana.edu or try this one CLJ@uic.edu
Registration in E400: Independent Study/Term Paper. This is your opportunity to focus on some specific aspect of Life in the Stone Age. A senior level term paper is asked of you. What will that paper be about? Each student is asked to document his/her classroom project by writing a ten page paper about it, with bibliography.
This Syllabus: The topics and dates are tentative. An updated syllabus will be provided if significant changes are made in the schedule.
Class Participation: Discussion in class is encouraged. Your ideas are welcome.
Requirements: You are expected to attend lectures, attend the practicum, read the texts, watch the audiovisuals, and to study your notes. Each student will be asked to prepare and present a class demonstration. Separate instructions will be issued to you.
Classtime: Each major topic will be rigorously organized and presented in a concise manner. Lectures will be on Monday. You are encouraged to look over the outline presented in a lecture as you study the textbook readings. Many topics covered do not appear in the texts. There will be many video presentations during the course.
Practicum and other Demonstrations Writeup: You are asked to take notes during Tom Dillard's presentation, write them up, and turn them in for a 20 point credit. Your notes will assist you in the mastery of stone tool making. If you don't attend, you can to a writeup based on library materials.
Examinations: There will be three, including the final exam. The dates appear in the syllabus. Study guides will be issued for them and there are reminders in class.
Inclement Weather: In the event that IUN is officially closed or if class in canceled, any scheduled examination will be given at the next scheduled class period. Official campus closings are announced on the radio and may be confirmed by calling campus police. If you call them, please don't tell them I gave you that suggestion!
Final Grade Breakdown for P210: Points
First Hour Exam.....................................50
Second Hour Exam.................................50
Tom Dillard Practicum Writeup...............20
Classroom Presentation...........................30
Third Hour Exam (Final).........................50
Total Points for the Course..............400 points PLUS other writeups as announced
E400 Students: The P210 requirements plus 80 points for the term paper for a total of 480 points PLUS other writeups as announced. The total scores are plotted graphically. Letter grades are distributed according to University and Department guidelines.
Incomplete: Listen up! Department rules require that at least two-thirds of the required course work be completed to qualify for the grade of incomplete instead of a failure. If you want an incomplete, you must let me know. It is your responsibility to stay in touch with the registrar's office, and to complete course work a month before it is due.
Major Illness or Crisis: Let me know what has happened in your life so that we may assist you in successful completion of this course. Be sure to call.
Anthropology Club: There is an active anthropology club on campus. Meetings are informative and your participation in club activities is welcome. Announcements will be made in class from time to time. Watch for posters. You may visit the club's website by way of the IUN website on the Internet.
Anthropology in the News: Articles about anthropology appear frequently and they often pertain to what we are doing in class. If you see an article of interest, bring it in. Many excellent programs about anthropology appear on Channel 11 and 56 in Gary. See also to see are A&E, Discovery, TLC, History, and others. Check your local library for videos on anthropology; many are available for rental.
WEEK 1........ Introduction; A Walk Through Time;The Stone Age; Prehistory I;
Aug 28, 30 Connections and How Innovations Are Linked (example: the plow);
Technology, the Axemaker's Gift; the Life of Hunter-Gatherers I.
HUMAN Ch 1 p 1 only to p 18 The Oldest Way of Life
KNACK: Introduction pp 9-11
WEEK 2........ Life of Hunter-Gatherers II: Subsistence, Social Organization, Cosmology, Lifeways
No Class 9/04
Wed Sept 06 KNACK: Ch 3 Tools I p 66-only to p 80
WEEK 3........ Hominids on Parade; Ages of Ice; Giant Stones/Megaliths
Sept 11, 13 HUMAN: Ch 2 pp 27-48 Portraits from the Past
KNACK Ch 2 pp 32-65 Rope, String, Thread
WEEK 4........ Life of Neandertals, First Humans; Diaspora
Sept 18, 20 HUMAN Ch 3 pp 49-73 One Hundred Thousand Years
KNACK: Flintknapping, the remainder of Ch 3 pp 80-89
Sept 22, 23 Practicum in Flintknapping with Tom Dillard
Friday/Saturday 9 AM - 4 PM RH 207
WEEK 5........ Upper Paleolithic Life; Venus Figures; Cave Art; Domestication; After the Ice Age
Sept 25, 27
HUMAN CH 6 pp 126-163 The Last Ten Thousand Years
KNACK: Ch 4 Color pp 90-97
**Study Guide Issued for First Exam, next week
WEEK 6........ FIRST EXAMINATION Monday, October 2nd
Oct 02, 04 The Domestication of Ourselves Long Ago; the Living Environment
DOMES: Ch 1 pp 1-22 Attending to Assumptions
WEEK 7........ the Open Society; Household Order; Sharing; the Use and Designation of Space; Life in Ancient Egypt
Oct 09, 11
DOMES: Ch 2, 3 pp 23-78 The Opening Society; House in Order
KNACK: Fire Ch 1 pp 12-31
WEEK 8........ Open House; Work for Gain; Hospitality; Privacy; Ancient Lives in
Oct 16, 18 Egypt; Special topic: The Practice of Mummification (mask mummies are a separate topic in week 13)
DOMES: Ch 4 pp 79-116 Open House
KNACK: Pottery Ch 6 pp 114-125
**Special Topic:
WEEK 9........ Graves to Monuments; Households to Palaces; The Power of Place
Oct 23, 25 DOMES: Ch 5 pp 117-150 The Surrealities of Power
KNACK: Ch 7 Food and Cooking pp 126-139
**Special Topic:
WEEK 10....... The Domestic Influence; privacy and intimacy; The Origins of Accounting and Mathematics; Craftsmen of Ancient Egypt
Oct 30, Nov 01 DOMES: Ch 6 pp 151-184 The Domestic Influence
KNACK: Ch 8 Soap pp 140-143
**Study Guide issued for Second Exam, next week
**Special Topic:
WEEK 11....... SECOND EXAMINATION Monday, November 6th
Nov 06, 08 Otzi, The Iceman from Europe
KNACK: Ch 11 Glue pp 158-164
**Special Topic:
WEEK 12....... Joseph; Ancient Surgery and Trephination; Scarification; Health and Disease in prehistory; Rise and Fall of State Societies; Languages
Nov 13, 15
HUMAN Ch 7 The Tower of Babel
KNACK: Ch 9 Animals pp 144-158
**Special Topic Special topic: Papyrus, making a papyrus sheet, and handmade paper,
WEEK 13....... Life In Ancient Egypt; Life in Early Cities; Mask Mummies; The Nile's other Gift: Nubia and the Sudan
Nov 20, 22
HUMAN Ch 8 pp 203-226 Cultural Legacies, Genetic Legacies
**Special Topic: Do your own cartouche in hieroglyphics
****Thankgiving Holiday is November 23rd
WEEK 14....... The Age of Metals; The Origins of Writing, Money and Credit
Nov 27, 29 HUMAN Ch 10 pp 245-265 Evolution and Progress
**Special topic: metallurgy; casting by lost wax technique in class.
WEEK 15....... Ancient Seafarers of the Old World; Ships; Navigation at Sea; Astrolabes and the Sextant; Longitude
Dec 04, 06
**Special topic:
WEEK 16....... FINAL EXAM Wednesday, December 13th, 2:30 PM