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| developed the Pecos Classification, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. |
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-colorado
-stamped into gully/arroyo
-killed 157 bison 75% show traces of processing
-feeds about 100 ppl for a month |
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-formation of settlement clusters with multiple large, multi-ethnic. villages
-Experimentation and elaboration in ritual
-large open-air plazas become common as focal points for ritual
-settlement clusters linked together by exchange networks
-evidence for conflict |
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-abundent after pliestocene
-benefited loss of other species
-generalized feeders |
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- on Bayou; rich wetlands
-transitional late arch.
-500acers; many post holes and trash
-10ft mounds
-Mound A bird mound
-center of lapidary (stone) industry
-Poverty point objects |
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- clay balls golfball to baseball sized, used to cook food
-like stone boiling but made with clay |
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-lower illinois valley
-use of flotation and skimming
-excellent stratigraphy multi-occupation
-separated by floop deposits
-large scale
-dog burials |
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| -carrying capacity of Chaco Canyon soils |
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-chacoan outlier community
-resembles anasazi
-kivas |
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-largest prehistoric population
- southern illinois
-center of long distance trade netowrk
-massive public architecture
-100 earthen mounds
-trade: carvings, ear ornaments, ramey incised pottery |
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-one of the largest pueblos in Chaco Canyon
-500 rooms 12 kivas 1 great kiva
-5 stories tall |
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| Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump |
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-run herds off cliff
-allignments of rocks ephemeral walls or barriers to funnel herds
-favored location |
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-6 points in association with mammoth
-lay and wait hunting style |
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- late archaic site
-late summer early fall
-300 bison killed
-MNI- minimum number of individuals |
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-major center of Puebloan culture
anasazi |
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| Chacoan decline and collapse (causes) |
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| Chacoan exchange (materials and direction of flow of goods) |
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-ceramics, turquoise, timber, flaked stone, meat flowed into
-no evidence of any export |
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-pueblo bonito
-multi-story pueblos |
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-aztec ruin
-salmon run
-resemble chacoan but further away |
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| Katsina (Kachina) ceremonialism |
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| -a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. |
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| similar style to clovis but smaller and no channel flake |
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| - biface with stem attached to corner |
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| broader top narrow bottom |
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late archaic plains
-hoes, manos, fiber tempered pottery (lighter, less breakable)
-tending wild plants, but no cultigens |
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| Plains Woodland Tradition (farmers) |
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- bow and arrow
-horticulture maize and beans
-pottery -plain or cord roughed, cooking and storage
-burial mounds |
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| flood plain of the Mississippi River |
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| Archaic period eastern woodlands |
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-projectile points
-cultivation by late period
-increased sedentism long distance trade
-pottery late
-burial complexes |
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-early woodland period
-ohio river valley
-conical eathen bural mounds with grave goods
-not a culture but a set of practices, beliefs and mat shared and exchanged over broad area |
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-fortification around site
-archaic woodland
-evidence of conflict
-486 individs
-scalped and mutilation
-accumulation of human remains |
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-woodland mounds
-tombs
-primary and secondary bural
-multilayer over time
-pipes mika and other burial goods
-40 mounds
-250 burials |
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| - facility where bodies of dead are stored before funeral or stored to decompose |
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| woodland archaic developemnets |
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-domestication and cultivation of plants
-pottery stone containers
-metal working
-regional exchange
-mortuary elaboration
-moundbuilding |
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-earliest moundsite
-11 mounds at center surrounding open area |
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| Chiefdom (characteristics) |
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-organization of several communities that are controlled by one kin group which has ventralized power
-social rankings
-tribute and surplus
-power hereditary
-settlment heirarchy and burials |
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| -used in games rolled and throw spear at it |
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| Eastern Agricultural Complex |
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-marsh elder, sunflower, goosefoot
-protiens and fat |
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-earliest pottery
-fiber tempered
-doesn't preserve well |
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| Hopewell Interaction Sphere |
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-mid woodland period
-2 different centers il and oh
-more complex and widespread than adena
-burial mounds |
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-copper spear points, knives, fishhooks
burial context |
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| Mississippian society (characteristics, material culture) |
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- maize major crop
-rapid pop growth
-large complex with public arch and cheifdoms
-shell tempered pot, storage
-war and fertility |
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-cahokia
-largest structuire mid of city 10 stories
-possible temple on top |
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diagonal axis of placement
-270 burials
-10000 artifacts
-sacrifices (women) |
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| Southern Cult (definition, symbols) |
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-widespread set of symbols appearing in trade,pottery copper shell
-themes: anvestors, fertility, war
-eye in hand sun burst weeping eye skull and bones trophy heads |
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- small com then sig. growth
-30 earthen pyramids
-flat top
-charnel house
-clear eliete an common areas
-3000 plus burials
-war |
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