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<p><span>Join the Director of the Maya Exploration Center to discover the astounding accomplishments of the ancient North Americans and their significant legacy.</span></p>

Syllabus

  • 01: The Unknown Story of Ancient North America
  • 02: The First Human Migrations to the Americas
  • 03: Clovis Man: America’s First Culture
  • 04: The Archaic Period: Diversity Begins
  • 05: Late Archaic Innovations
  • 06: Poverty Point: North America’s First City
  • 07: Medicine Wheels of the Great Plains
  • 08: Adena Culture and the Early Woodlands Period
  • 09: The Hopewell and Their Massive Earthworks
  • 10: The Origins of Mississippian Culture
  • 11: The Mississippian City of Cahokia
  • 12: The Wider Mississippian World
  • 13: De Soto versus the Mississippians
  • 14: The Ancient Southwest: Discovering Diversity
  • 15: The Basketmaker Culture
  • 16: The Mogollon Culture
  • 17: The Hohokam: Masters of the Desert
  • 18: The Ancestral Pueblo
  • 19: The Chaco Phenomenon
  • 20: Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient Southwest
  • 21: The Periphery of the Ancient Southwest
  • 22: Late Period Cultures of the Pacific Coast
  • 23: Late Period Cultures of the Great Plains
  • 24: The Iroquois and Algonquians before Contact
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Edwin Barnhart

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