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Module 6 Flashcards

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Isotropic

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Uniform in all orientations

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Cryptocrystalline

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Extremely Fine grained

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Knapping or flint knapping

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The process of making stone tools

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Conchoidal fracture

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Shell-shaped fracture

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Bulb of percussion

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Area of conchoidal fracture produced during stone tool manufacture

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Striking platform

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Area where a stone tool is impacted during production of flakes

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Core

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Larger rock that has flakes removed from it for tool production

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Flake

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Smaller rock removed from a core during tool production

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Hammerstone

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Stone used to remove flakes from a core or to shape flakes after removal

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Soft hammer

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Similar to a hammerstone, but made of material softer than the rock core; often made of antler or bone

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Reducing firing atmosphere

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Limited supply of oxygen during ceramic firing, typically resulting in black and white ceramics

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Temper

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Non-plastic materials added to clay for ceramic production

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reductive technology

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Artifact production involves removing materials, with no possibility of replacing these

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Additive technology

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Artifact production involves adding materials as desired, permitting a finished product of any desired size or shape

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Plastic

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Materials that can be formed into any desired shape or form

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Oxidizing firing atmosphere

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Unlimited supply of oxygen during ceramic firing, typically resulting in red and buff or multicolour ceramics

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Coiled ceramics

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Ceramics produced by coiling a piece of clay into the desired shape (only form of ceramic production in the Americas prior to European contact)

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Sherd/Shard

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Name given to a fragmentary piece of ceramics (sherd in the Americas; shard in Britain)

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censors

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Name used in Mesoamerican archaeology for incense burners

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Differential use of ceramics

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Archaeological analysis of the distribution of ceramics in different contexts

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weft

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Moving element in weaving (left-to-right portions)

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warp

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Structural element in weaving (up-and-down portions)

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bone cutting

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Sawing or otherwise cutting through bone to produce a desired shape

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bone grinding

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Producing a desired shape in bone by abrading against a rough material like sandstone

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tempering

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Reheating of quenched iron to decrease brittleness

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quenching

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rapid water cooling of carburized iron to increase strength (increases brittleness)

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carburization

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Process of introducing carbon from charcoal fires to iron

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28
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steel

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Hardened iron produced through use of carbon from charcoal fires

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iron

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Relatively soft metal

30
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bronze

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Alloy of copper and tin

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metallurgy

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Producing metal artifacts by heating metal to melting point, sometimes combining different metals

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tin

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Alloyed with copper to produce bronze

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copper

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Widely used in early metal working, sometimes cold hammered into desired shape

34
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hard metals

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Copper, tin, iron

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s twist

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Cordage produced by twisting to the right

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z twist

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Cordage produced by twisting to the left

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sewn basketry

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Another name for coiled basketry

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Constituent analysis

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Analysis of the composition of artifacts, such as the source of lithic raw materials

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form attributes

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Attributes (often of artifacts) that are directly related to function

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stylistic attributes

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Attributes (often of artifacts) that are not directly related to function

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symbolic gift giving

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Gift exchange with greater concern for the act of exchange than the item exchanged

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negative reciprocity

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intentional indebtedness

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balanced reciprocity

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Equal value transactions

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positive reciprocity

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Exchange with no expectation of indebtedness

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Ideology and status, as it relates to trade and exchange

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Rare and valuable items used to enhance status, sometimes as sacred / religious icons

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Information flow, as it relates to trade and exchange

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social function of markets and exchange is to acquire knowledge, rather than materials

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Alliance, as it relates to trade and exchange

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Balanced positive redistribution strengthens social ties

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Social integration, as it relates to trade and exchange

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Exchange of items through bargaining

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Market exchange

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Exchange of items through bargaining

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redistribution

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Distribution of items through government control

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fictive kin groups

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Anthropological name for group affiliations not based on blood or marriage (clans, totems, etc.).

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big man

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Anthropological term (based on ethnographic research) used to describe individuals who accumulate status through material culture over the course of their lives

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Hopewell

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Archaeologically defined culture known for construction of elaborate earthen mounds, long-distance trade of exotic materials

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mound builder

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Generic name given to societies in eastern North America who constructed earthen mounds.

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interaction sphere

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Relatively long-distance interaction, seen archaeologically primarily through ritual behaviours (burials, etc.) and elite (non-essential) items

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Mississippian culture

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Name given to mound building culture that was still active at the time of European arrival (early 1500s) in southeastern North America

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clan

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Fictive kin group typically based upon a shared spirit animal; members of a clan may be related by blood, but this is not a necessary requirement

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spiro

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Large Mississippian mound site in modern Oklahoma, mostly destroyed by looters in the 1930s.

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Caddoan Mississippian culture

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Western-most extent of Mississippian culture in North America

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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex

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Widespread distribution of ritual materials and styles in southeastern North America (known as “Southern Cult” or “Buzzard Cult” in early publications)

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cahokia

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Largest village / city in North America prior to European contact

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Archaeological signature of marketplace

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Physical and material traits that permit distinguishing market activities in a physical space

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Microartifact assemblages

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Collections of material remains left behind at a market space because they were too small for the vendors to notice

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Transient space

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Location on the landscape that can be used for a variety of different purposes

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inferred market system

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Market system believed to have been employed by a past society

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Archaeological signature of economic systems

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Means of recognizing different economic systems through material remains left behind

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Embedded transaction

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Transactions can only occur between individuals with a standing relationship

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atomized transaction

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Impersonal transaction, assumes no prior relationship of people involved

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economic rationality

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Assumption underlying capitalist economic theory, that ancient markets would behave like modern markets

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market system

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Economic system of exchange where prices are determined through bargaining, rather than by a government

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