Completed a 48-Lecture Series on "The Great Courses" aka Wondrium tonight.
Very in-depth amount of material, it certainly assisted on our recent trip to Uxmal...
"Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed"
The lectures were taught by Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center.
This was the third series of lectures from Dr. Ed Barnhart at Wondrium.
I've benefited and learned a great deal from these areas of study. Sometimes the material is enough, other-times they act as jumping-off points for additional study. Regardless, I spent about twenty-four hours watching the lectures, and I enjoyed all of it.
Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
LECTURE 1: The Maya, Aztecs, and Mesoamerica
LECTURE 2: Olmec Civilization Emerges
LECTURE 3: Olmec Art as the Mother Culture
LECTURE 4: Olmec Contemporaries
LECTURE 5: Mesoamerican Plants, Cuisine, and Medicine
LECTURE 6: Early Highland Maya—Izapa to Kaminaljuyu
LECTURE 7: Preclassic Maya Lowlands—El Mirador
LECTURE 8: The Popol Vuh—Creation and Hero Twins
LECTURE 9: The Great City of Teotihuacan
LECTURE 10: How the Maya Mastered Mathematics
LECTURE 11: The World’s Most Elaborate Calendar
LECTURE 12: Tikal—Aspiring Capital of the Maya World
LECTURE 13: Maya Hieroglyphs—Breaking the Code
LECTURE 14: Maya Astronomy and Building Orientations
LECTURE 15: The Dresden Codex
LECTURE 16: Palenque—Jewel in the West
LECTURE 17: Sacred Geometry in Art and Architecture
LECTURE 18: Illuminating Works of Maya Art
LECTURE 19: Copan—Jungle Dynasty of the East
LECTURE 20: Calakmul—The Mighty Snake Kingdom
LECTURE 21: The Mesoamerican Ball Game
LECTURE 22: Enigmatic West Mexico and Shaft Tombs
LECTURE 23: Classic Maya Collapse—Cities Abandoned!
LECTURE 24: New Cities of the Terminal Classic—Uxmal
LECTURE 25: Monte Alban and Zapotec Rule over Oaxaca
LECTURE 26: The Mixtec Rise—Gold and Epic Stories
LECTURE 27: The Great Pyramid of Cholula and El Tajin
LECTURE 28: Cacaxtla Murals and Xochicalco
LECTURE 29: The Toltecs—Role Models or Myth?
LECTURE 30: Chichen Itza—Maya Capital of the Yucatan
LECTURE 31: League of Mayapan—Maya New World Order
LECTURE 32: Mesoamerican Religion
LECTURE 33: Aztec Origins—Arrival and Rise of the Mexica
LECTURE 34: The Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan
LECTURE 35: Life in the Aztec World
LECTURE 36: How the Aztecs Expanded Their Empire
LECTURE 37: Independent Tarascans—Desert Warriors
LECTURE 38: Paquime—Northernmost Mesoamerican City?
LECTURE 39: Illuminating Works of Aztec Art
LECTURE 40: Tulum—Aztecs at the Ancient Maya Port City
LECTURE 41: First Contact with Europe in Mesoamerica
LECTURE 42: The Siege of Tenochtitlan
LECTURE 43: Conquest of the Maya and Landa’s Legacy
LECTURE 44: Fall of the Last Maya Kingdom—The Itza
LECTURE 45: The Caste Wars of Yucatan
LECTURE 46: Echoes of the Past in Mexico
LECTURE 47; Maya Survival and Revival
LECTURE 48: Frontiers of Mesoamerican Archaeology