Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Final- Cultures/Societies
Cultures/Societies
51
Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
12/03/2011

Additional Anthropology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Bandkeramic
Definition
Neolithic farming settlement in Germany, made linear pottery 5,300-4,000 BC
Term
Ancestral Pueblo
Definition
developed out of indigenous forager roots, they made heavy use of wild plant foods.
Term
Cochise culture
Definition
Mogollon area 2000-500 BC
Term
San Pedro Phase
Definition
500 BC- 200 AD sedentary, corn and the atatl
Term
Late Archaic in the Southwest
Definition
Term
Basket-maker II
Definition
(500 B.C. - A.D. 600) No pottery, reliance on corn and squash, storage pits, pit-houses
Term
Basket-maker III
Definition
(A.D. 600 - 750) Plainware, Beans, Pithouses, This is when pottery began
Term
Pueblo I
Definition
kiva-round ceremonial structure, the kivas would be adjacent to dwellings, ex: Mesa verde
Term
Pueblo II
Definition
rapid population, ex: Chaco canyon, Above ground villages, Pueblo bonito at chaco canyon-had over 800 rooms, Had a stairway leading up to the man made road, Pottery is abundant “corrugated” pottery
Term
Pueblo III
Definition
AD 1150-1300, Chaco Canyon abandoned, major settlement shift to cliffs of Mesa Verde
Term
Pueblo IV
Definition
AD 1300-1400, more abandonments, Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde both abandoned
Term
Mogollon Sequence: Pithouse
Definition
AD 200-1000, pithouses and serious use of corn, first pottery is brown
Term
Mogollon Sequence: Pueblo
Definition
AD 1000-1300, above-ground architecture, sophisticated pottery: Mimbres (most beatiful pottery made in SW), great kivas
Term
Hohokam sequence: Early Preclassic: 200-750 AD
Definition
200-750 A.D., plain buff colored pottery, reliance on corn and squash, Pit houses, arrow points begin to replace atlatl.
Term
Hohokam sequence: Late Preclassic
Definition
A.D. 750-1150 Snake Town (Haury investigated)- pit houses, canal systems 25-30 miles- tapped Guila River, ball courts,
Term
Hohokam sequence: Classic Period
Definition
A.D. 1150-1400 above ground structures, chiefdom level political organization shown by elevated platform w/ structures around (suggests hierarchical power) , polychrome pottery
Term
Eastern North America sequence: Formative
Definition
sedentary in the Late Archaic 2000-500 BC
Term
Eastern North America sequence: Woodland
Definition
post 500 BC, mounds, greater reliance on domesticates dated to 1000BC in some areas
Term
Apache
Definition
Postclassic Pueblo IV , latecomers that arrive from the north
Term
Navajo
Definition
Postclassic Pueblo IV , latecomers that arrive from the north
Term
Zuni
Definition
Present day Anasazi
Term
Hopi
Definition
Present day Anasazi
Term
Pima
Definition
descendant of hohokam: most likely descendants of the Hohokam, used baskets for storage, not involved with elaborate culture like hohokam, less politically complex
Term
Papago
Definition
descendant of hohokam:most likely descendants of the Hohokam, used baskets for storage, not involved with elaborate culture like hohokam, less politically complex
Term
Woodland Period
Definition
increased reliance on domestics, burial mounds, cremation
Term
Mound builders
Definition
East North American cultures that all built mounds (Adena, Hopoewell -> Mississippian)
Term
Adena Culture
Definition
500 B.C.- A.D. 400 - Burial mounds, earthworks, long distance trade
Term
Hopewell Culture
Definition
A.D. 1-400 Serpent mound
Term
Mississippian Culture
Definition
A.D. 1,000-1,500 - intensive maize horticulture, platform mounds
Term
Southern Cult
Definition
series of artistic motifs and associated religious beliefs of Mississippian culture
Term
Olmec
Definition
1,200 - 400 B.C. - massive stone heads, earthen pyramids,
Term
Formative Maya
Definition
1,400 B.C.-250 A.D. El Mirador (300 B.C.-A.D. 250) massive city 6 square miles- monumental structures, large residential compounds, long distance trade
Term
Classic Maya
Definition
A.D. 250-850 - political structure of multiple competing kingdoms, divine kingship, astronomy, stone pyramid structures
Term
Teotihuacan
Definition
Term
Toltecs
Definition
Capital - Tula - ball courts, sculpted columns, Chacmool figures
Term
Aztecs
Definition
A.D. 1,200-1521 derived from chichimecas, chinampas agriculture, human sacrifice, terror, conquest
Term
Chavin
Definition
ceramic site investigated by John Rick, center of religious cult, sinister motifs, use of hallucinogens
Term
Pre-ceramic
Definition
8000-1500 BC, before the invention of pottery/ceramics
Term
Old Kingdom
Definition
2700 -2200 BC drought and political chaos
Term
New Kingdom
Definition
1600-1000 BC New burial procedures: mummification with bodies in rock cut tombs
Term
Most famous burial recovery
Definition
King Tut 1300 BC he was not recovered from a pyramid < excavators chiseled into the natural rocks
Term
Chichimecas
Definition
semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico and southwestern US
Term
Pochteca
Definition
professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec empire
Term
Chimu
Definition
AD 1000-1475, capital city was Chan Chan, walled city with adobe walls, taken over by Incas
Term
Caral-Supe
Definition
preceramic civilization, pyramids, irrigation, avocados, beans, cotton, possible quipu
Term
Moche
Definition
on the north coast of Peru
Term
Inca
Definition
largest prehistoric state in N. World
Term
Sumerians
Definition
3100-2334 BC Mesopotamia, in Ur, military organization, linear cultural sequence
Term
Mexica
Definition
The indigenous people of the valley of Mexico who were the leaders of the Aztecs
Term
Tiwanaku
Definition
southern highlands, 11,000 ft in Andes. AD600-1000. Precursor to Incas
Term
Wari
Definition
civilization/culture of the Andes in Peru that utilized terrace agriculture
Supporting users have an ad free experience!