Ant 202 final terry jones Flashcards
Paleoindian
Pre 10,000BP, fluted points, narrow spectrum big game hunting
formative
sedentary, large communities
Archaic
broad spectrum hunting/ gathering in new world only
Classic
peak of cultural above ground architecture achievement, platform mounds for religious/elite activities, chiefdom, multicolored pottery
Post-Classic
post 1400 AD, major cultural collapse
Social Stratification
society broken into ranked groups
Paramount chief
highest level chief in a Chiefdom
Primary traits of civilization
Urbanization, labor specialization, social stratification, food surplus, states
City
more than 25,000 people
Secondary traits of civilization
water control, writing, monumental architecture
Chiefdoms
simple, top leader over everyone else
States
complex, many tiered political structure
Urbanization
Cities, more than 25,000 people (what phenom)
Medieval Climatic Anomaly
800-1350 AD, unusually long droughts (different parts of the world)
Human Sacrifice
n Mississippian culture, questioned at mound 72
New Kingdom
1600-1000 BC, no pyramids, mummification/massive tombs for rulers
Old Kingdom
2700-2200 BC, 3rd-6th dynasties, huge pyramids, Giza pyramid of Khufu
Ancestral Pueblo/Anasazi
500 BC- 1300 AD, formative (what civilization)
Late Archaic in the Southwest
2000-500 BC, maize cultivation
Basketmaker II
500 BC-600 AD, formative, pithouses, very little pottery, reliance on corn/ squash, storage pits, baskets and nets
Basketmaker III
600-750 AD, formative, well-made gray pottery, domestication of beans, pithouses
Pueblo I
750-900 AD, formative, above ground architecture (aka pueblos), kivas
Pueblo II
900-1150 AD, classic, Chaco canyon and Mesa Verde, phase in anasazi sequence
Pueblo III
1150-1300 AD, classic, clifftop living in Mesa Verde (defense), violence raiding and warfare (Haas and Creamer), case for cannibalism, abandonment b/c drought
Pueblo IV
1300-1400 AD, post-classic, pop decline
Mogollon Sequence
Pithouse
Pueblo (what sequence)
Pithouse
200-1000 AD, formative,square pithouses wtih storage, serious use of corn, brown pottery
Pueblo
1000-1300 AD, formative, above ground architecture, mimbres pottery, great kivas (religion)
Hohokam Sequence
San Pedro Phase Early Preclassic Late Preclassic Classic Period (what sequence)
Early Preclassic
200-750 AD, first buff colored pottery, arrow points reliance on corn/ squash, formal deep pithouses
Late Preclassic
750-1150 AD, snaketown, pithouses, irrigation, ball courts, elaborate pottery
Classic Period
1150-1400 AD, ground architecture with woven tops, mounds, multicolored pottery
Eastern North America
Formative
Woodland
(where located)
Apache
In mogollon sequence, southern New Mexico, Brown pottery
Zuni, Hopi, Navajo
P4, last Anasazi left at present day sites of Pueblo Indians (tribes)
Pima/papago
where Hohokam sequence is, buff-colored pottery
Formative in the eastern north America sequence
2000-500 BC, poverty point, conical mounds
Woodland Period
post 500 BC, burial mounds, Eastern North America (what period)
Moundbuilders
3 cultures are moundbuilders- Adena, Hopewell and Mississippian, first two are primarily hunting and gathering
Adena Culture
500 BC- 400 AD, burial mounds, hunting/gathering, buildings in circles and squares (what culture)
Hopewell Culture
100-400 AD, Effigy mound (serpent), hunting and gathering, trade, platform pipes= art, copper artifacts, sophisticated pottery
Mississippian Culture
1000-1500 AD, intensive maize use, storage, formative settlements by rivers, Monk’s mound, Cahokia(1st city), palisades(walls that enclose)
Olmec
1500-500 BC, massive stone heads, pyramids, glyphs,ex= La Venta San Lorenzo
Preclassic maya
1500 BC- 250 AD, monumental structures, ball courts, long distance trade, writing, ex= El mirador
Lekson’s theory of the Chacoan state
struggle for power, Chacoan leadership moved and resettled, chocolate and feathers (what theory)
Cannibalism in the Southwest
Turner= charnel deposits, White= “pot polish”, Marlar= coprolite
(shows what possibility?)
Inter-group violence
Haas and Creamer, during P3, cliff living for defense shows what?
The Great drought and its impacts
1276-1300 AD, wiped out many cultures, found by dendrochronology
Childe’s Urban Revolution
Childe hierarchy, need for traders and accountants, increase food production, labor specialization
Boserup’s Population Pressure theory
cities are being pushed into agriculture b/c of pop growth