Upon completing this course students will:
- Demonstrate a general understanding of the history of the human occupation of eastern North America.
- Understand how current foci in the archaeology of this region articulate with larger disciplinary questions in anthropological archaeology.
- Explore the co-development of human societies and environmental and ecological landscapes.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the theories and methods shaping the contemporary practice of archaeology in eastern North America.
- Evaluate how the history of Indigenous, European, and African American peoples in eastern North America articulates with contemporary social and political issues, including the management and stewardship of cultural heritage.

1. Archaeological practice: methods, evidence, and interpretation
2. Geography and cultural ecology 
3. Peopling of eastern North America
4. Pleistocene-Holocene climate change, diversity, and regional adaptations
5. Late Archaic lifeways: Early villages, monumentality, and plant domestication
6. Early and Middle Woodland networks and mortuary customs
7. Late Woodland regionalism: the first farmers 
8. Northern Iroquoian and Algonquin societies
9. The Mississippian world
10. Pericolonialism: European explorers, missionaries, and Indigenous responses
11. Early colonial encroachment: Forts, outposts, and the shatter zone
12. Enslavement and plantation economies
13. Race, inequality, and postbellum archaeology and history
14. Archaeologists, descendant communities, and the evolution of cultural heritage management