User talk:Hoopes

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, May 2, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article:

For students in ANTH 415: relevant to the theme of the origins of agricultural villages and complex, stratified societies or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article about the topic on which you have written a paper or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester.

For students in ANTH 508: relevant to the theme of the archaeology of the Central Andes or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article about the topic on which you will be writing your term paper or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester.

I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is acceptable if you would like to tackle that. The power of Wikipedia is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Wikipedia articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Wikipedia content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Wikipedia via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts by adding four tildes to the end!

To begin this assignment, you must first login to Wikipedia with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Wikipedia, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself. Sign in to the appropriate section under "KU Student Editors" below by adding an asterisk followed by a space and four tildes (Hoopes (talk) 16:24, 14 April 2025 (UTC)) so that Wikipedia will automatically add links to your user page and talk page.

If you are editing an existing Wikipedia article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Wikipedia.

If you want to develop a new Wikipedia article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Wikipedia), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding User:Username/Article title to the main userpage somewhere.

For including references, the quickest and easiest method is by clicking on the "Cite" link at the top of the editing pane and using one of the drop-down templates to insert a reference. If you want to code references by hand, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system Wikipedia calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of Smith 2008, p.123 after the statement to be cited. To learn how to do this, look at the code used for references on existing Wikipedia articles, most of which have both in-text references and a list of references at the end.

Please sign this list (with four tildes) once you've created your Wikipedia user account. You should also add a short statement about what entry you'll be creating or working on. (When you've done this correctly, it should look like the first entry below.) I will be communicating with students directly via the Talk page of their User pages and this list will provide direct links to those. Please check there for messages.

• Hoopes (talk) 14:39, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Jscoe3 (talk) 15:18, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Arenee2000 (talk) 15:20, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Mcamp13 (talk) 15:21, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• steviesteves1976^Talk 15:22, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Please sign this list (with four tildes) once you've created your Wikipedia user account. You should also add a short statement about what entry you'll be creating or working on. (When you've done this correctly, it should look like the first entry below.) I will be communicating with students directly via the Talk page of their User pages and this list will provide direct links to those. Please check there for messages.

• Hoopes (talk) 16:17, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Gko7493 (talk) 19:08, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Sarajayhawk (talk) 19:09, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Jacksonbadams (talk) 16:23, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

The following is a short list of just some of the kinds entries that can be improved with additional details and sources. Please feel free to add additional entries that you would like to see! If you decide to take one of these, please sign after it (with four tildes) so other students will know it's already taken.

• Periods: Natufian culture, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Formative stage, Old Kingdom of Egypt
• Neolithic Middle East: Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, ʿAin Mallaha, Atlit Yam, Çatalhöyük
• Mesopotamia: Tell es-Sawwan, Uruk, Eridu, Royal Cemetery at Ur
• Indus Valley: Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Kalibangan, Lothal, Indus script
• China: Banpo, Erlitou, Anyang, Oracle bone
• Mesoamerica: Guilá Naquitz, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Tenochtitlan
• Central Andes: Caral, Chavín de Huantar, Tiahuanaco

• V. Gordon Childe, Robert John Braidwood. Peter Bellwood, Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus

The following is a partial wish list of just some of the entries that I would like to see created (in red) and/or improved (in blue). Please feel free to add additional entries that you would like to see! (I'll be adding more, too, as I find time.) If you decide to take one of these, please sign after it (with four tildes) so other students will know it's already taken.

• Archaeological cultures: Valdivia culture, Chinchorro mummies, Norte Chico civilization, Chavín culture, Paracas culture, Nazca culture, Recuay culture, Moche culture, Tiwanaku, Wari culture, Chimú culture, Chachapoya culture, Sican culture, Inca
• Archaeological sites: Real Alto, Huaca Prieta, Caral, Cerro Sechín, Kuntur Wasi, Pachacamac

• Julio C. Tello, Wendell C. Bennett, John Howland Rowe, Gordon Willey, Maria Reiche, Anne Paul. Helaine Silverman, John Janusek, Michael Moseley. Jeffrey Quilter, Tom Dillehay
• Inca queens and empresses, Mamacona, Acllahuasi, Taki Unquy

Your assignment, due on Thursday, April 16, by 5 pm, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article relevant to the analysis of archaeological materials. Please follow the general guidelines and instructions as listed below for "Ancient American Civilizations".

Please sign this list (with four tildes) once you've created your Wikipedia user account. You should also add a short statement about what entry you'll be creating or working on. (When you've done this correctly, it should look like the first entry below.) I will be communicating with students directly via the Talk page of their User pages and this list will provide direct links to those. Please check there for messages.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

• Archaeological features: Temple of the Inscriptions
• Thematic topics: Franciscan missions to the Maya, Midwifery in Maya society, Maya cave sites, Human trophy taking in Mesoamerica, Women rulers in Maya society, Women in Maya Society, Maya mythology, Mayan Genetics, Maritime Trade Among the Ancient Maya, Maya Economy, Entheogenics and the Maya
• Archaeological sites: K'o, Ek' Balam, El Perú (Maya site), El Perú (Maya site),
• Indigenous Personalities: Siyaj Chan K'awiil II, 18 Rabbit, Ha' K'in Xook, Ek Chuaj
• Miscellaneous topics: Xtabentún (liqueur), Maya belt plaques

• Richard Stockton MacNeish, Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, William Saturno, Dennis Tedlock, Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, November 22, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the archaeology of pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article about the topic on which you will be writing your term paper or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is acceptable if you would like to tackle that. The power of Wikipedia is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you. You will be able to get a good overview of approaches to the topic by reviewing the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica (WP:MESO), itself an excellent online guide to resources on the archaeology of Mesoamerica.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Wikipedia articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Wikipedia content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Wikipedia via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts by adding four tildes to the end!

To begin this assignment, you must first login to Wikipedia with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Wikipedia, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself.

If you are editing an existing Wikipedia article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Wikipedia.

If you want to develop a new Wikipedia article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Wikipedia), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding User:Username/Article title to the main userpage somewhere.

For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system wikipedia calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of Smith 2008, p.123 after the statement to be cited.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

• Temple of the Inscriptions
• Franciscan missions to the Maya
• Midwifery in Maya society
• Maya cave sites
• Human trophy taking in Mesoamerica
• Women rulers in Maya society
• K'o
• Ek' Balam
• El Perú (Maya site)
• Siyaj Chan K'awiil II
• Xtabentún (liqueur)
• El Perú (Maya site)
• 18 Rabbit
• Maya mythology
• Women in Maya Society
• Ha' K'in Xook
• Mayan Genetics
• Ek Chuaj
• Maritime Trade Among the Ancient Maya
• Entheogenics and the Maya
• Maya belt plaques
• Maya Economy

• Richard Stockton MacNeish
• Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro
• William Saturno
• Dennis Tedlock
• Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, December 2, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the lost city in archaeology, literature, film, video games, etc. (for students in ANTH 177) or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article on the "lost city" about which you have written (for students in ANTH 177) or the paper on an aspect of pseudoarchaeology (for students in ANTH 212), or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is definitely acceptable if you want to tackle that. The power of Wikipedia is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Wikipedia articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Wikipedia content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Wikipedia via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts by adding four tildes to the end!

To begin this assignment, you must first login to Wikipedia with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Wikipedia, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself.

If you are editing an existing Wikipedia article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Wikipedia.

If you want to develop a new Wikipedia article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Wikipedia), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding User:Username/Article title to the main userpage somewhere.

For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system wikipedia calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of Smith 2008, p.123 after the statement to be cited.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

• Psychic archaeology
• Nazi archaeology
• Grave Creek Stone
• Michigan relics
• Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
• Thunderstone (folklore)
• Antonio del Río
• San Pedro Mountains Mummy
• Holly Oak gorget
• Tucson artifacts

• Temple of the Inscriptions
• Franciscan missions to the Maya
• Midwifery in Maya society
• Maya cave sites
• Human trophy taking in Mesoamerica
• Women rulers in Maya society
• K'o
• Ek' Balam
• El Perú (Maya site)
• Siyaj Chan K'awiil II
• Xtabentún (liqueur)
• El Perú (Maya site)
• 18 Rabbit
• Maya mythology
• Women in Maya Society
• Ha' K'in Xook
• Mayan Genetics
• Ek Chuaj
• Maritime Trade Among the Ancient Maya
• Entheogenics and the Maya
• Maya belt plaques
• Maya Economy

• Aztec use of entheogens
• Tsentsak
• Sandobele
• Vegetalismo
• Trance
• Entoptic phenomena (archaeology)
• San Jose de Moro
• Tsunki
• Yacuruna
• Yuwipi
• Sangoma

• Konstantin Bogdanov
• John M. Janzen
• George Carr Frison
• Phyllis M. Kaberry
• Alice Beck Kehoe
• Richard Stockton MacNeish
• Mari Lyn Salvador
• Helena Wulff
• Ruth Tringham
• Roscoe Hall Wilmeth
• William Abel Caudill
• June Nash
• Karen McCarthy Brown
• Albert Buell Lewis
• Ibrahim Muti’I
• Eileen Krige
• Robin W.G. Horton
• Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro
• Donald Collier
• Irving Rouse
• June Nash
• William Saturno
• Dennis Tedlock
• Samuel Kirkland Lothrop