Final Flashcards
Epistemology
how we know the world
Ontology
the way the world is
Animism
relationship between physical/metaphysical, animate/inanimate, living/non-living, human/non-human
Shamanism
certain people communicate with the other worldly
Relational ontology
everything is related in the way the world is
Essentialist ontology
Ocean Bay Tradition (Pacific Alaska)
7500-3500 ya in pacific alaska
Associated artifact types (Pacific Alaska)
blades, microblades, harpoon-like, ground slate tools, boats, oil lamps
Pacific Alaska
oldest coastal occupation known - 9000 ya
Ulu Knives (pacific alaska)
made of ground slates during kachemek period (3500 -1000 ya)
Toggling harpoons (Pacific Alaska)
stick to whales - kachemek period (3500-1000 ya)
Pithouses (Pacific Alaska)
lived in pithouses - pacific alaska
Labrets (Pacific Alaska)
body adornment to mark special
Evidence of shamanism (Pacific Alaska)
increase of ceremonial objects
Inequality (Pacific Alaska)
some treated differently (where live, pithouses, body adornments)
Trans-Arctic
Thule, Inuit, Arctic Small Tool, Dorset, Norton, Umiak
Thule Culture and Inuit Peoples(Trans-Arctic)
ancestors of the inuit people (met Vikings) - 8-900CE - siberia to Greenland 1100 years ago in a matter of years - technology including whats (blubber & bones)
Arctic Small Tool Tradition (Trans-Arctic)
5000 ya in north alaska and greenland - used blades of stone, needles, harpoon heads, and projectiles (bow and arrow)
lived in houses dug into the ground
Independence Phase (Trans-Arctic)
4000-3700 ya - slightly bigger tools than small tools with ellipttical houses with hearth in the middle and cache in the floor
Pre-Dorset (Trans-Arctic)
Sarqaq - slightly diff than independence phase w socketed harpoons and soapstone lamps
Dorset (Trans-Arctic)
more emphasis on specialization, settlements, and no dog sleds. move north with climate and 1200 ya - new art
Carving Traditions (Trans-Arctic)
Dorset (carvings of animals and masks + carved bone - shamanism?)
Longhouses (Trans-Arctic)
Dorset Longhouses used during summer - 100 people per to build membership (contrast w inequality bc equal spaces)
Norton (Trans-Arctic)
early version of Thule? 3000 ya. - 1000 ya and first pottery in arctic
choris: 3000-2500ya
norton: 2500-2050ya
Ipuitak: 2050 - rise of Thule
Choris Pottery (Trans-Arctic)
small, cord marked, round bottomed
Masks (Trans-Arctic)
made by Ipuitak peoples - spiritual?
Umiak (Trans-Arctic)
boat - 2000 ya
made from seal/walrus skin over driftwood/whale bone
18m in length - og paddled but later w sails
Other important technologies (Trans-Arctic)
toggle head harpoons
ice picks
kayaks
sleds (no dogs)
Inequality (Trans-Arctic)
non egalitarian society (gendered inequality? karigi only for men)
leaders called Umilaliks - uneven access to whale resources (tongues, tails, flippers)
Moundbuilders
brought people from digg places together due to world view
materialized history
started NA Archeology
Social Complexity (Moundbuilders)
thought had to have inequality, specialization, public works, and agriculture
however j because one exists doesn’t mean all exist
Adena (Moundbuilders)
2500-2200ya - hunter gatherers who supplemented with gardening
Adena Earthenworks (Moundbuilders)
conical made of dirt and stone
biggest = grave creek (built gradually)
under are postholes with deceased = people were burned and buried over
embankments with ditches
Adena Material Culture (Moundbuilders)
gorget adornment piece
stone tablets
Hopewell (Moundbuilders)
2200 - 1600 ya, widespread, diverse, more earthenworks
Hopewell alignments (Moundbuilders)
Ohio Newark Earthwork: aligns w/ moon at north most point of moon rising
Hopewell interaction sphere (Moundbuilders)
draws from all continent - bird objects, copper from great lakes, etc
Effigy Objects (Moundbuilders)
pipes that look like animals that cross domains (people cross domains??)
Hopewell declines (Moundbuilders)
1600ya - self sufficient, southeast ritual landscapes?
Poverty Point (Moundbuilders)
3500 years ago - trading center 740 acres in size - open to the east (water) but closed to land
Poverty Point Earthenworks (Moundbuilders)
6 concetric half circles with 6ft tall ridges postholes, hearths, middens
mound A shaped like bird? 3 mos of 2000 people working
Poverty Point material cutlrue (moundbuilders)
PPOs, plummets for fishing, soapstone, groundstone, intentionally broken soapstone (align w angles)
Poverty Point Objects (PPOs) (Moundbuilders)
clay objects used to heat (hot stones)
Poverty Point alignments (Moundbuilders)
with intentionally broken soapstone - solstice and equinox alignments
Watson Brake (Moundbuilders)
buried under, no ev of people living on - localized
Shell Rings (Moundbuilders)
marine sites with caches in mounds - remains of feasting? cremations?
Silver Glen (Moundbuilders)
site in northeast florida
Moundbuilding traditions in subtropical Florida
terraforming - build landforms in everglades
mortuary temples in fort center florida
After Hopewell (Late Woodland Mississippian)
1600 ya decline of hopewell - “Dark Ages”
American Dark Ages (Late Woodland Mississippian)
decentralization, fewer connections to outside, local
continue religion but not exoticcs
Troyville (Late Woodland Mississippian)
LA - 1400-1300 ya, massive landscapes that people pilgramige towards
80 ft tall pyramids - part of larger complex
also not burial mounds
Kolomoki Mounds (Late Woodland Mississippian)
later example of moudns in GA
Atlatl to bow and arrow (late woodland mississippian)
slow transition 1200 ya
Evidence for territorialization, intensification, convergence (late woodland mississippian)
localized ceramic styles more distinctive but appear in new territories (peaceful + violent marriage)
Chunkey Stone (late woodland mississippian)
game to adults spaces - public + ceremonial = relating to other & avoiding violence
Importance of Maize (late woodland mississippian)
restricted in mississippi valley - borrowed from southeast w/ parallels to ceramics & other tech
Toltec (late woodland mississippian)
AK - 1300 ya maize as a staple
arranged by moon cycle
American Bottom (late woodland mississippian)
1100 - 950 ya
Floodplain of Mississippi in Illinois and Missouri - maize agriculture + centralization, social inequality, urbanization
live in pole and thatch houses w courthouses in villages of 1000 residents
Material culture of the American Bottom (late woodland mississippian)
red slipped pottery & spindle whorls, smoking pipes - participate in inequality
Medieval Warming Period (late woodland mississippian)
increase of 2 degrees + rainfall - lead to boom in American Bottom
Cahokia (late woodland mississippian)
950 ya birth of a city to emerge in urban centers due to climate, miaze, populations, & changes in cosmos
Cahokia eartheworks and landscape modifications (late woodland mississippian)
level ground to make pyramids (ex: Monk’s Mound)
Cahokia grid and astronomical alignments (late woodland mississippian)
5 degrees E off North - box of summer sunrise sunset and north moon rise and set
Monk’s Mound (late woodland mississippian)
3rd largest pyramid in Americas
Mound 72 (late woodland mississippian)
burials on top of shell beads
Stone Idols (late woodland mississippian)
related to crop production
Human Sacrifices (late woodland mississippian)
young people - women - sacrified (5 on mound 72) - ritual practice?
Mississippianization (arch patterns) (late woodland mississippian)
Cahokia influence mid continent - outposts with tools and beads and spatial deisigns
Gender equity with female sacrifices - matrilinal society
Warfare and violence (late woodland mississippian)
iconography spread
colonialize winterland using force
visible in iconography + spatial patterns (warrior status and prestige)
Cahokia’s Decline (late woodland mississippian)
650 ya - cahokia abandoned & warfare increased - cemeteries turn to 40% violent death - maybe due to little ice age?
Image and stereotype of Plains Indigenous Person (Great Plains)
image of horse + bows and arrows - recent developments dont capture changing nature
Importance of Bison (Great Plains)
bison-bison big in great plains - rely on for food and way of life
Communal Projects (Great Plains)
stone cairns, stone effigies, tipi rings, ritual sites
Fincastle (Great Plains)
Alberta - communal gathering to hunt bison - butcheron on site
Bone uprights (Great Plains)
hammer bones into ground - spiritual?
Plains Archaeological Pattern (Great Plains)
tipi rings
drive cairns - lead to easier site
paniken - dried meeat
1000 ya decrease 450 ya