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Ancient Civilizations of North America
- Narrated by: Edwin Barnhart
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
For the past few hundred years, most of what we’ve been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now - with the technological advances of modern archaeology and a new perspective on world history - we are finally able to piece together their compelling true stories. In Ancient Civilizations of North America, Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center, will open your eyes to a fascinating world you never knew existed - even though you’ve been living right next to it, or even on top of it, for as long as you’ve been on the continent.
The peoples of ancient North America were exceptionally knowledgeable about their environment, but their intellectual and artistic curiosity went much beyond the immediate need for food and safety. Beginning thousands of years ago, and without benefit of written language, native peoples became mathematicians, construction and soil engineers, astronomers, urban planners, and more. They developed thriving cities, extensive trade routes, canals to bring water to the desert, and earthworks we still marvel over today.
In 24 exciting lectures, you’ll learn about the vibrant cities of Poverty Point, the first city in North America, built about 3,500 years ago, and Cahokia, the largest city of ancient North America. You’ll explore the many ways in which the Chacoan environment provided cultural and religious focus for peoples of the southwest. And you’ll learn about the Iroquoian source of some of our most basic “American” values.
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- James Tighe
- 01-30-19
Where Was This Guy When I Was In College?
Great lectures! Dr. Barnhart provides pertinent information, lots of meaningful details, and he keeps it interesting 100% of the time! At the end of the course, he invites the reader to visit the places he's discussed, and that's exactly what the course makes me want to do.
When a topic has not been completely proven, and remains theoretical, Dr. Barnhart presents all the known potential explanations, along with sensible reasons for each, and encourages the listener to think and draw their own conclusions.
His knowledge and experience are strongly apparent, yet he comes across more like you were sitting on the patio drinking beer with him and listening to him talk, than as if he were in an auditorium delivering a lecture. I wish I'd had professors like him 30 years ago in college!
I will listen to this book/course again!
I just located all of Dr. Barnhart's courses that I could find in Audible, and added them to my wish list!
41 people found this helpful
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- Jill Brim
- 01-31-19
Not as advertised
This was much more of an overview of archeological methods and a listing of historical sites than a review of the civilizations. This course reviews the methods of discovery and doesn’t piece together what the discoveries tell us.
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- Steve Goppert
- 07-26-18
A different perspective - civilizations not tribes
The perspective of thinking of the civilizations and nations rather “tribes” of North America is what prompted me to listen to this course. I have been to many of the locations mentioned in the course, particularly in the Southwest, and had managed a small contract archelogy/environmental company for a bit. So, considered myself somewhat conversant. vis a vie educated, in native or first people cultures. I now realize I missed so much on my brief project reviews and visits to some wonderful National Monuments and other historic sites.
This course has provided me with a bit of education and a very different perspective. Barnhart presents history from the arrival of the first peoples across the Bering land bridge to first European contact. The course proceeds through cultural history in a logical manner of regions of North America. Where I saw ruins and interesting mounds, I now see the rise and fall of civilizations just like those of western and eastern world history. He presented broad interconnected picture of pre-contact life in North America.
I see first contact as another period of change and upheaval no more brutal than Alexander’s conquest of Persia, the Saxon conquest of England and so many other conquests from China to Egypt. I’m sure some reading this may disagree; that just fine with me. Perhaps, as I enter my eighth decade of my cycle of life, I see a different perspective. The culture and nation we live in will end at some time just as it did for those who were here long before us. My lens is not so much one of good and bad as it is a lens of that is how things are. This course reinforced that worldview.
The course also made places I have visited like Chaco Canyon come alive. The mystery of roads, equivalent to Roman roads, that lead to nowhere we can understand is fascinating. The accurate astronomical alignments throughout the Chaco region are impressive. particularly since the Chaco nation had no writing language we know of to record decades or even centuries of observations. I want to revisit Chaco Canyon, the Aztec Ruins, and other places.
In summary, the course was interesting, informative, transformative and well worth time to listen to. Barnhart states that was part of his goal in designing the course. Well done, sir.
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- Jessica Anderson
- 10-31-18
This guy is amazing
this is the third one of his that I finished, it was great. His courses on Central and South America were all so wonderful. Highly recommended!
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- Matthew Dennis
- 10-29-18
Left me wanting more in the best possible way.
There are only a couple audiobooks on Audible on the topic of Native American history. Most of those seem to explicitly dwell on the poor treatment of natives in the post-contact world. But I already knew that contact was not just hugs and puppies for the natives after Columbus; what I wanted to know was: who was here before us, and what did they do? This audiobook more than delivers. I just wish it was longer, but I left these lectures with the distinct impression that the archaeology just isn't there yet, due to e.g. modern cities existing on top of the most interesting sites. Still, the first thing I did after finishing these lectures was make a list of friends who live near some of these sites, and start planning some visits. Tl;dr excellent set of lectures, recommend it to anyone with an interest in ancient North America.
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- Mike
- 07-05-18
Exceptional Science; Exceptional Subject
Dr Barnhart is an archaeologist by trade, and a story-teller by nature - the perfect person to deliver Great Courses material that is utterly empirical yet still comes to life. I personally could never get enough of his nuanced yet compelling treatment of First Nations / European contact, whether it's his courses on the Aztec, Inca, or here with the Mississippian cultures and de Soto. But the focus here on pre-contact lifeways is even more fascinating, as the stories of cities like BCE Poverty Point and CE Cahokia deserve their rightful pedestals in the halls of history.
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- K. Gentry
- 01-28-19
More Entertaining than Fiction
I loved these lectures. These were so full of information that I will listen again, and take notes of all the sites to visit. Edwin Barnhart pulls you into the story, and makes you share his interest. These are not distant removed peoples, but just humanity.
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- Richard G. Schuette
- 09-07-18
Fascinating
This is a great, substantive as possible overview of native north America mostly before contact with Europeans. The narrator is easy to understand with a speech pattern that is not a monotone nor sing song. I loved it and plan on listening over and over.
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- IG-88
- 08-07-18
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This was absolutely outstanding. I loved this course, I wish there was more to listen to I hope they develop a number of other courses focusing on other tribes and even natives of Canada, and the Caribbean. Or state by state. This was wonderful. Get it already.
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- Mark
- 01-10-19
I learned a lot of ancient North American history
I learned a lot in this Great Courses audiobook. Parts were interesting; other parts were a little slow. Because this is an academic lecture, there was a lot of background on how things were learned. It was good, but I was hoping to have those civilizations come more alive to me. Still, I am glad that I listened.
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- Suetpud
- 07-30-22
The disappearing lecture series!
I studied this topic as part of my degree. The lecture series contains a huge amount of interesting information that is not common knowledge and would be fascinating to so many people. However Audible has decided to remove this lecture series half way through my reading it. Appalling!
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- Anonymous User
- 04-08-22
Amazing.
Absolutely amazing, a great introduction to ancient North America that I will be visiting again
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- jrpritchard
- 04-05-21
Fascinating
I really enjoyed this course and learnt a lot about pre-contact Americans. The lecturer is clear, engaging, and clearly cares deeply about the topic. I come away with a much deeper picture of Native American civilizations and a desire to go visit places like Poverty Point and Chaco Canyon to make physical the pictures painted by this course. Recommended.
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- Padre
- 08-19-21
Comprehensive exposition marred by PC preachiness
I have listened to all three Courses by the author on South, Central and now North America. As always he is erudite and enthusiastic. Sadly the PC thinking has become more overbearing. Other than that, a great primer.
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- Mark Henwood
- 06-22-21
Fascinating
Excellent series of lectures providing an overview of the ancient cultures of North America. Now if only travel would open up again so I can go visit some of these sites!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-19-20
Required knowledge
For this reader few courses or books have filled in so many missing pieces or corrected as many misconceptions generated by a standard liberal education and mass culture.