Well, what I was thinking was I'd do one or two in depth, and then the students could do the super-quickie summaries of the others for their presentation, in front of the rest of the class. That way I wouldn't lose much time. No matter what, I've got six days to spend on civilizations, the question is just: one a day? Three for two days each? Two for two days each by me, then two days of student presentations? Two a day for four days by me, and then two days of student presentations?

I'm definitely giving a lot of time to theories/modern politics/etc in other parts of the class, as these are mostly going to be students whose main interaction with archaeology will be Indiana Jones/2012/Atlantis, and so I want them to have good critical thinking skills about that sort of stuff.