HIS 338 MEDIEVAL AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

The Middle Ages in the North American Southwest, ca. 400 CE to 1539 CE.  The southwestern United States in big historical perspective.  This course focuses on the 1000 years or so before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas.  Using the body of knowledge that archaeologists and anthropologists who specialize in Southwestern Studies have built up over the last century and a half, we will investigate the complex Agrarian societies of the medieval American Southwest --  Hohokam, Anasazi, and Mogollon -- with an eye to excavating the shared historical past of all Americans, native and immigrant.