| Date | Topics | Readings | Due Dates | |
| 21-Aug | T: | Introductions | Chapter 1 | |
| Video: Digging up the Past, 23 min [VHS 12116] | ||||
| 23-Aug | TH: | Anthropology, culture, and the study of world prehistory | ||
| Evolution: explaining biological and cultural change | ||||
| 28-Aug | T: | The first hominids | Chapter 2 | |
| 30-Aug | TH: | The first hominids, continued | Weekly #1 | |
| Video: Ape Man-The Human Puzzle, 50 min [VHS 10856 (vol. 1)] | ||||
| 4-Sep | T: | Lab #1 | Chapter 3 | |
| Beginnings of the genus Homo | ||||
| 6-Sep | TH: | Lab #1 | ||
| Beginnings of the genus Homo | ||||
| 11-Sep | T: | Genus Homo diversity and the global diaspora | Chapter 3 | Lab #1 Writeup |
| 13-Sep | TH: | Pre-modern humans and neanderthals | Weekly #2 | |
| Video: Neanderthals on Trial, 60 min [VHS 19595] | ||||
| 18-Sep | T: | Lab #2 | Chapter 4 | |
| Models of modern human origins | ||||
| 20-Sep | TH: | Lab #2 | ||
| Models of modern human origins | ||||
| 25-Sep | T: | Upper Paleolithic | Chapter 4 | Lab #2 Writeup |
| Flowering of the Human Imagination | ||||
| 27-Sep | TH: | Peopling of the New World | Weekly #3 | |
| Video: Search for the First Americans, 60 min [VHS 10434] | ||||
| 2-Oct | T: | Complex gatherer-hunters and food production | Chapter 5 | |
| Video: Harvest of the Seasons, 52 min [VHS 4101] | ||||
| 4-Oct | TH: | Exam #1 | Weekly #4 | |
| 9-Oct | T: | Origins of agriculture | Chapter 6 | |
| 11-Oct | TH: | Neolithic society and Neolithic sites: Abu Hureya and Çatal Höyük | Weekly #5 | |
| Video: Wisdom of the Stones, 51 min [VHS 19883] | ||||
| 16-Oct | T: | Social and political complexity | Chapters 7 & 8 | |
| Video: Power, Prestige, and Wealth, 60 min [VHS 8224] | ||||
| 18-Oct | TH: | Chiefdoms: megaliths and mound builders | Weekly #6 | |
| Video: Who Built Stonehenge?, 50 min [VHS 16032] | ||||
| 23-Oct | T: | Chiefdoms: North America and Polynesia | Chapter 9 | |
| Video: Myths and Mound builders, 59 min [VHS 3212] | ||||
| 25-Oct | TH: | Ancient states | Weekly #7 | |
| 30-Oct | T: | Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean | Chapters 10 | |
| Video: Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization, 57 min [VHS 10193] | ||||
| 1-Nov | TH: | Trade and warfare in the ancient world | ||
| Video: Ancient Mariners, 60 min [VHS 3211] | ||||
| 6-Nov | T: | South Asia: Harappan Society | Chapter 11 | |
| 8-Nov | TH: | Exam #2 | Weekly #8 | |
| 13-Nov | T: | Lab #3 | Chapter 12 | |
| Video: Egypt-Beyond the Pyramids, 57 min [DVD 1099] | ||||
| 15-Nov | TH: | Lab #3 | Weekly #9 | |
| Video: Egypt-Beyond the Pyramids, 57 min [DVD 1099] | ||||
| 20-Nov | T: | Ancient Africa, Ancient China | Chapter 13 | Lab #3 Writeup |
| Videos: [VHS 11028] & [VHS 19823] | ||||
| 22-Nov | TH: | Happy Thanksgiving | ||
| 27-Nov | T: | Highland Mesoamerica | Chapter 14 | |
| Video: The Aztec Empire, 50 min [VHS 15880] | ||||
| 29-Nov | TH: | Lowland Mesoamerica: Mayan civilization | Weekly #10 | |
| Video: City of the Gods, 28 min [VHS 12117] | ||||
| 4-Dec | T: | The Inca | Epilogue | Media Project Due |
| Video: Inca-Secrets of the Ancestors, 48 min [VHS 14542] | ||||
| 6-Dec | TH: | Review | ||
| Course Evaluations | ||||
| 13-Dec | Final Exam, 12:00-2:00 | |||