5. Late Archaic Innovations

Question 1

Where did the innovations in the late Archaic period come from?

Answer 1

1. inspiration and inventions
2. Climate pressures

Question 2

Why did the Pacific Coast region stay largely the same, while other areas of North America changed?

Answer 2

1. They had an abundance of resources and didn’t need to innovate

Question 3

What is one example of a late archaic innovation along the Pacific Coast?

Answer 3

1. Acorn Leaching

Question 4

What is acorn leaching?

Answer 4

1. A way to extract the bitter and indigestible tannins and eat them by pounding them to a powder and cooking them in big pits with water and clay

Question 5

What subtle change occurred in the burial practices of the Pacific people in the late archaic?

Answer 5

1. Cemeteries

Question 6

What were Pacific people buried with along the Pacific Coast?

Answer 6

1. Gender specific items, such as grinders for women and projectile points for men.

Question 7

What is an indication of inland trade with coastal regions on the Pacific Coast?

Answer 7

1. Marine shell jewelry in inland cemeteries

Question 8

What were the seasonal travel practices like along the Pacific coast?

Answer 8

1. People moved upland in the winter and to the lowlands in the summer

Question 9

What major shift occurred in the Pacific Northwest in the late archaic?

Answer 9

1. A shift to permanent villages

Question 10

What evidence indicates an increase in warfare in the Pacific Northwest in the late Archaic?

Answer 10

1. A high percentage of bodies with signs of violent deaths

Question 11

What likely caused the people of the Pacific Northwest to settle in permanent villages?

Answer 11

1. Seeking protection in villages due to an increase in violence

Question 12

Why do we not know much about the Pacific Coast people?

Answer 12

1. Natives do not allow archaeologists to dig on their lands