The purpose of the extra credit report is to show that you learned something from the selection and should relate the reading back to concepts discussed in class or in the core readings. Up to 10% of extra credit is possible in the class.  Each article report is worth 1/2 % (that's 0.5%), thus the full 10% requires submission of 20 thoughtful reports. [Required reserve articles may not be used for this assignment].

Promising articles for one page reports:

1. History of American Archaeology

(no references on hand)

2. Peopling of the New World and the Paleo-Indians

-Dillehay, Tom D. (1984) Late Ice-Age settlement in southern Chile. Scientific American v. 251, no. 4, p.106-117.

-Dumond, Don E (1980) The archaeology of Alaska and the peopling of America. Science. v. 209, no.4460. p. 984-991.

-Fagan, Brian (1993) Alaska's first settlements. Archaeology v.46 n.4. p42(2).

-Gladkih, Mikhail I. Ninelj L. Kornietz; Olga Soffer. (1984) Mammoth-bone dwellings on the Russian Plain. Scientific American v. 251, no. 5, p.164-175.

-Haynes, C. Vance, Jr. (1966) Elephant hunting in North America. Scientific American. [Reprinted in Zubrow, Fritz, and Fritz (1974) New World Archaeology: Theoretical and Cultural Transformations. Readings from Scientific American, San Francisco, W.H. Freeman and Co. Pp. 204-212.]

-MacNeish, R.S., R. Berger, and R. Protsch (1970) Megafauna and Man from Ayacucho, Highland Peru. Science 168:975-977.

-Mosimann, James E. and Paul S. Martin (1975) Simulating overkill by Paleoindians. American Scientist. vol. 63, no. 3. pp. 304-313.

-Powledge, Tabitha M. and Mark Rose. (1996) Colonizing the Americas: DNA studies now indicate the first Americans came from Asia in a single migration. (includes related articles) (The Great DNA Hunt, part 2). Archaeology. v49(n6). p58(10).

3. Archaic: Post Pleistocene Foragers

-Anderson, Douglas D. (1994) Sailing an ancient landbridge: a journey into Eskimo prehistory, from Alaska to the Russian Far East. Archaeology v.47 n.4. p50(4).

-Fagan, Brian (1994) Bison hunters of the Northern Plains. (Head-Smashed-In, Alberta, Canada, an ancient bison hunting site of the Plains Indians). Archaeology. v47(n3). p37(5).

-Giddings, James Louis, Jr. (1954) Early man in the Arctic. Scientific American. v. 190, no. 6, p. 82-88.

-Lynch. T.F. and K.A.R. Kennedy (1970) Early Human Cultural and Skeletal Remains from Guitarrero Cave, Northern Peru. Science vol. 169, pp. 1307-1309.

4. Origins of Agriculture and Sedentism

-Flannery, Kent V. and Schoenwetter, James (1970) Climate and man in formative Oaxaca. Archaeology. vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 144-152.

-Jochim, Michael A. (1989) From hunters to farmers. Archaeology. v42(n1). p42(7).

-Thompson-Ian. (1995) The search for settlements on the Great Sage Plain. Archaeology v48(n5). p58(5). [Pueblo]

-Ugent, D. (1970) The Potato. Science. vol. 170, no. 3963, pp. 1161-1166.

-Whittaker, John. (1992) Hard times at Lizard Man. (village near Flagstaff, Arizona). Archaeology. v45(n4). p56(3).

5. Evolution of Complex Societies I:Mesoamerica

-Chase, Arlen-F. and Diane-Z.Chase (1995) A mighty Maya nation. (investigation of ruins in Caracol, Belize). Archaeology. v48(n5). p66(7).

-Jackson, Lawrence J. (1994) Lucky day at Tiger Mound: a tidal flat off the coast of Belize yields evidence of Maya trading settlements that flourished long after the inland cities collapsed. Archaeology. v47(n1). p 60(3).

-Martin, Simon and Nikolai Grube. (1995) Maya superstates: how a few powerful kingdoms vied for control of the Maya Lowlands during the Classic period (A.D. 300-900). Archaeology v48(n6). p41(6).

-Millon, Rene Francis. (1982) Teotihuacan. Archaeology v. 35, p. 85-95

-Moctezuma, Eduardo M. (1984) Great temple of Tenochtitlan. Scientific American v. 251, no. 2, p.80-89.

-Plunket-Patricia. Urunuela-Gabriela. (1998) Appeasing the volcano gods. Archaeology v51(n4). p36(7).

-Sheets, Payson D. (1994) Tropical time capsule: an ancient village preserved in volcanic ash yields evidence of Mesoamerican peasant life. (Ceren, El Salvador). Archaeology v47(n4). p30(4).

-Smith, Michael E. (1997) Life in the provinces of the Aztec Empire. Scientific-American. v277(n3). p76(8).

-Wiseman, James. (1998) Eagle eye at NASA. Archaeology v51(n4). p12(5).

6. Evolution of Complex Societies II: Mississippi Valley

-Lepper-Bradley-T. (1995) Tracking Ohio's Great Hopewell Road: aerial reconnaissance and infrared photography help scholars map a sacred roadway nearly 60 miles long. Archaeology v.48 n.6. p52(5).

-Prufer, Olaf H. (1964) The Hopewell Cult. Scientific American. v. 211, no. 6. Pp. 90-94, 96-98, 100, 102.

-Saraceni-Jessica-E. (1996) Redating Serpent Mound. (prehistoric mound in Ohio). Archaeology v.49 n.6. p16(2).

-Stuart-George-E. (1991) Etowah: a Southeast village in 1491. (1491: America Before Columbus). National-Geographic. v.180 n.4. p54(14).

7. Evolution of Complex Societies III: South America

-Donnan, Christopher B and Luis Jaime Castillo (1992) Finding the tomb of a Moche priestess. (first-millennium Peruvian culture). Archaeology v45(n6). p38(5).

-Fagan, Brian (1994) The magnificent Moche. (exhibition of artifacts from royal tombs of Sipan in ancient Moche kingdom in Peru). Archaeology v47(n3). p12(3).

-Moseley, Michael-E. and James B. Richardson, III. (1992) Doomed by natural disaster. (destruction of the Moche capital). Archaeology v45(n6). p44(2).

-Schuster-Angela-MH. (1992) Inside the royal tombs of the Moche. (first-millennium Peruvian culture). Archaeology v45(n6). p30(8).

-Schuster, Angela MH. (1993) Moche masterworks. (Royal Tombs of Sipan exhibition). Archaeology v46(n5). p66(3).

-Shimada, Izumi and John F. Merkel (1991) Copper-alloy metallurgy in ancient Peru: more than 1,000 years ago civilization in South America was forged out of copper alloys. Recent excavations have revealed many aspects of copper-alloy metallurgy, from mining to smelting to metalworking. Scientific-American v265(n1). p80(7).

-von Hagen, Adriana and Sonia Guillen (1998) Tombs with a view: burials on a rock ledge high above an Andean lake yield evidence of a people known to have been among the Inka's fiercest enemies. (Chachapoya). Archaeology v.51 n.2. p48(7).

8. Newcomers to an old world

-Fagan, Brian (1993) In the footsteps of the Norse. (Norse settlement at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland). Archaeology v. 46 n. 1. p14(3).

-Fagan, Brian (1995) A finite Iroquoian legacy. (possible loss of archeological sites). Archaeology v48(n5). p89(5).

-Fagan, Brian (1993) The arrogant archaeologist. (ethics and conservation issues). Archaeology v46(n6). p14(3).

-Harrington-Spencer-PM. (1991) The looting of Arkansas. (theft ofarchaeological artifacts;Special Report;includes related articles). Archaeology v. 44 n.3. p22(9).

-Hansen, Richard D. (1997) Plundering the Peten. (site looting of the Mirador Basin of Guatemala). Archaeology v50(n5). p48(2).

-Meighan-Clement-W. (1994) Burying American archaeology. (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). Archaeology v47(n6). p64(3).

-Mobley, Charles M. (1993) Land of promise & paradox: a last frontier for American archaeology, Alaska harbors a wealth of sites but has few archaeologists to stem the tide of natural and human destruction. Archaeology v46(n4). p36(7).

-Slayman-Andrew-L. (1996) Where the past serves the present: for the Caribbean island of Nevis, tourism and historic preservation go hand in hand. Archaeology v49(n1). p79(6).