Title:
Ancient civilizations of North America / Professor Edwin Barnhart, Maya Exploration Center.
ISBN:
9781629975481
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Course no. 3900.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital.
Contents:
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.
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Language Note:
In English ; closed-captioned.
Performer:
Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart.
OCLC Number:
on1043903273
Availability:
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