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Anth 421 Ch 16 Early and Middle Archaic Cultures
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
12/07/2009

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Reason for the scarcity of organics in the Eastern Woodlands
Definition
Acidic soil and moisture.
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Diagnostic projectile points of Eastern Woodland Archaic in chronological order
Definition
Hardened Stem, Dalton Fluted, Cumberland, Side-Corner, Bifurcate Base.
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Significance of Sloan site?
Definition
Earliest cemetery
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Describe timer period, occupation, and subsistence strategies of Icehouse Bottom site.
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Early Archaic. Base camp. Hickory nuts.
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Importance of Koster site in Illinois River Valley?
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Best example of a site occupied through all 3 periods.
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Two criteria used to identify sedentary settlment
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Substantial dwellings, cemeteries.
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Most important food of riverine Southeast adaptations
Definition
Freshwater fish and shell fish.
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Significance of Windover site
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Preservation of organic human remains in a wet site, 5-6000BC.
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Explanation of bluff-top cemeteries under low mounds?
Definition
Hereditary rights to resources.
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Significance of L'Anse Amour site in Labradour
Definition
Land rose up. Melting ice preserved.
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