Teaching the Deep History of Italy in situ. Frederick S. Paxton Connecticut College

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1 Teaching the Deep History of Italy in situ Frederick S. Paxton Connecticut College

2 Perugia

3 View across the Tiber Valley to Assisi, on a flank of Mt. Subasio (upper left)

4 2004 (2 nd ed. 2011) 2007

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7 The Monumental Entrance to Etruscan Perugia

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12 Earth history The Field trip to the Mountains of St. Francis

13 The Cenozoic mudstones (marls) and sandstones of the Contessa Valley

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16 The Cretaceous limestones of Bottaccione Gorge

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18 The students at the site of the discovery of the Iridium layer left by the K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction event 65 million years ago

19 Late Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone above Burano Gorge Early Jurassic limestone cliffs in Furlo Gorge

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21 The deep history of humanity

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23 The Whiteboard after the second day of student presentations on the Seven Daughters

24 Midterm Assignment and Exams Research Assignment Ca words on an individual, thing, event, or concept in the index of The Mountains of St. Francis or The Seven Daughters of Eve. Collect the information in the book and then go to Wikipedia for more data. Move out from page on your subject into the wider Wikiverse by following five to ten blue-highlighted hyperlinks to related pages. Cite Wikipedia by clicking on Cite this page under Tools in the left column and cutting and pasting the bibliographical entry. Choose whichever style you prefer, like MLA, below: Wikipedia contributors. "Basques." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 Feb Web. 10 Feb

25 Preparing for the Oral Midterm Exam Choose 2 of the following topics, 1 from each group (5 minutes each). Be prepared to 1) explain their importance in understanding the deep history of Italy and humanity in Europe 2) ask me a couple of questions about them, and 3) answer a couple of questions from me. Adria (the Adriatic Promontory) Italy, Italians and the geology Faults and landscapes Fossils, especially forams and ammonites Mountains and plate tectonics Sedimentary rocks The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary and life on Earth Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis Mitochodrial DNA and Y-Chromosone DNA The lifeways of hunter-gatherers at the end of the last Ice Age The transition from foraging to farming (from Paleolithic to Neolithic) Distinctive features of the genus homo and of homo sapiens as a species

26 Preparing for the Written Midterm Exam One page will have a copy of figure 6 on page 272 of Seven Daughters. Be prepared to note where each of the clan mothers probably lived, and the percentage of contemporary Europeans descended from each, on the figure, and write 2-3 paragraphs on what of any three of their imagined lives reveal about the deep past of humans in Italy and/or elsewhere in Europe.

27 Preparing for the Written Midterm Exam One page will have either the figures on p. 103: the south side of Bottaccione Gorge, and p. 140: stratigraphy of the mountains of St. Francis; or the figures on p. 122: a cross section of the landscape from Gubbio to the Burano Gorge, and p. 214: a deep seismic cross section of the landscape between the Tiber River the Burano Gorge. (as below) Explain the figures on the page (and how they related to one another) and write a paragraph on their significance in understanding the deep history of Italy

28 Etruscan History

29 Field Trip to Tarquinia and the Necropolis of Banditaccia at Cerveteri

30 Museo Nazionale Tarquiniense

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39 The Tomb of the Reliefs

40 Etruscan Perugia

41 Etruscan Perugia Arco Etrusco Porta del Sole Walls Arco di San Ercolano Porta Marzia Walls Porta Trasimena and San Giacomo

42 Recent excavations beneath the cathedral

43 The Etruscan Well

44 Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell Umbria Cemeteries of Etruscan Perugia Ipogeo dei Volumnii

45 Final Exams Final Oral Exam Preparation For each of the last two class meetings you will each present your thoughts on one of the sixteen essays assigned from Sobin s Luminous Debris and then lead a discussion with the rest of the class.

46 Preparing for the Written Final Exam Part 1 will ask you to write a paragraph on 1 of the topics in Etruscan history from the choices below, any 3 of which will appear on the exam. Language and Literature Religion Social Organization Music, Dancing and Banqueting Warfare Part 2 will ask you to write a couple of sentences on 3 of 6 images of dated objects or paintings we have discussed (like those below), focusing on what they reveal about Etruscan culture at the time of their creation.

47 . In Part 3 you wll write a couple of sentences on 3 of 6 dated maps or building/city plans from the same sources; and in Part 4 you will write a couple of sentences on 3 of 6 images from Sobin s Luminous Debris.

48 Bringing it all back home Connecting the global and the local through Big History The Tiber River Valley between Perugia and Assisi The Connecticut River Valley

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