Pre Modern History

Resources

General

Fordham Historical Source - http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp

BBC, Horrible Histories - http://horrible-histories.co.uk/

John Green, Crash Course World History - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

Columbia University, Asia for Educators - http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/

Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/

The Bodleian Library, Oxford University, UK - http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley

The British Museum - http://www.britishmuseum.org/

Yale Online Courses - http://oyc.yale.edu/

The Smithsonian Museum, USA - http://www.si.edu/

Podcasts- Hard Core History - http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

British History Podcast - http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/

National Public Radio, USA - http://www.npr.org/

Indian Jones- Myth, Reality and Twenty First Century Archaeology- http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1975/indiana-jones-myth-reality-and-21st-century-archaeology

National Geographic, USA - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

National Library of Australia – www.nla.gov.au

Docuwatch,( A documentary database with access to hundreds of documentaries), http://www.docuwat.ch/watch-documentaries/

Resources by Area of Study

Indigenous Australia

Books

Arthur, W., & Morphy, F.,. Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time, North Ryde, N.S.W. Macquarie Library, 2005

Flood, J Archaeology Of The Dreamtime : The Story Of Prehistoric Australia And Its People, Marleston, South Australia, J.B. Publishing, 2004.

Flood, J. The riches of ancient Australia : a journey into prehistory, St. Lucia, Qld, University of Queensland Press, 1990.

Gilligan, I 'Reports: Clothing and Climate in Aboriginal Australia', Current Anthropology, 49, 3, 2008, pp. 487-495.

Hiscock, P., Archaeology of ancient Australia, Routledge, 2008.

Kinsela, A., ‘Movements in the Ancient World: Australia from Past to Present’. Agora, 49(1), 2014, pp. 47-49.

Mulvaney, D. J., & Kamminga, J. Prehistory of Australia, St Leonards, N.S.W., Allen & Unwin, 1999.

Ross, J 'A continent of Nations: The emergence of new regionally distinct rock art styles across Australia', Quaternary International, 285, 2013, pp. 161-171.

Russell-Smith, J., Diane, L., Minnie, G., Billy, G., Nipper, K., George, N., Kate, L., Pina, G., & George, C., 'Aboriginal Resource Utilization and Fire Management Practice in Western Arnhem Land, Monsoonal Northern Australia: Notes for Prehistory, Lessons for the Future', Human Ecology, 2, 1997, p. 159.

Websites

Australian Museum,‘Indigenous Australians Overview’, accessed 20^th August 2014 from: .

Cameron, P.,‘Aboriginal Life Pre-Invasion’, accessed 21^st August 2014 from: .

Creative Spirits, ‘History’ (see also: ‘Aboriginal History Timeline (1400-1769)’), accessed 20^th August 2014 from: .

Anasazi

Childs, Craig House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest. Little, Brown and Company, February 22, 2007.

Cordell, Linda S. Ancient Pueblo Peoples. St. Remy Press and Smithsonian Institution, 1994.

Fagan, Brian M. "Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent (part five)." Thames and Hudson, Inc., New York, New York, 1991.

Fagan, B. Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Fagan, B., From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites, Basic Books, 1998.

Jennings, Jesse D. Glen Canyon: An Archaeological Summary. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1966, republished 1998.

LeBlanc, Steven A. Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999.

Plog, Stephen, Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, Thames and Hudson, London, England, 1997.

Roberts, David D. In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1996.

Sofaer, Anna, The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression, University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Journals

American Antiquity

Audio-Visual

Sofaer, Anna (1999), The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, South Carolina Educational Television

History Channel, Digging for the Truth: Mystery of the Anasazi, 2005

Websites

“The Anasazi or "Ancient Pueblo" in Grahame, John D. and Sisk, Thomas D., (eds.) 2002. Canyons, cultures and environmental change: An introduction to the land-use history of the Colorado Plateau. Northern Arizona University, [Accessed 05/08/14] http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/anasazi.htm

Hewit Institute and University of Northern Colorado, The Ancestral Puebloans, Hewit Institute and University of Northern Colorado, Accessed 5/8/14, http://hewit.unco.edu/DOHIST/puebloan/begin.htm

Sofaer, Anna, (ed.)“The Mystery of Chaco Canyon”, The Solstice Project, http://www.solsticeproject.org/

National Geographic, “Archeology”, National Geographic, http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/

Aztec

Berdan, Frances, The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston,1982.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill, Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2000.

Carrasco, David, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press,1982.

Clendinnen, Inga, Aztecs: An Interpretation, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Davies, Nigel, The Aztecs: A History, London, Macmillan, 1973.

Gruzinski, Serge (). The Aztecs: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. Hassig, R., “Aztec Flower Wars” The Quarterly Journal of Military History 9(1), 1996

http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/MES-05-SciAm-.pdf

León-Portilla, Miguel (Ed.) “The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico”. Ángel María Garibay K. (Nahuatl-Spanish trans.), Lysander Kemp (Spanish-English trans.), Alberto Beltran (illus.) (Expanded and updated edition ed.). Boston, Beacon Press, 1992/1959.

Journals

American Antiquity, http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/AmericanAntiquity.aspx (Available through the National Library of Australia)

Primary Sources in Translation

Codex Mendoza: Aztec manuscript/ Commentaries by Kurt Ross, Fribourg, Productions Liber SA, 1984.

Find gloss in The Essential Codex Mendoza, http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art111/readings/The%20Essential%20Codex%20Mendoza.pdf

Audio-Visual

In Search of History: The Aztec Empire (The History Channel)

In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548v0

Websites

Diedrich, Cajus, et.al. (eds.)“Pre-Columbian Aztecs,” World Museum of Man and Prehistory- The History of Man though the Study of Tools and Weapons, http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/aztec.php

Michael E. Smith, “Aztec Culture: An Overview”, Arizona State University, http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/Smith-AztecCulture-WWW.pdf

National Geographic, “Archeology”, National Geographic, http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/