sites Flashcards
revise in morning
1
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BOXGROVE UK
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- homo heid
- animal butchery
- tool manufacturing
- complex landscapes
- mode 3 handaxes
2
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HOPEWELL CULTURE
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- 2000 - 1300 BC
- hunter-gatherers group increase in high biomass areas
- causes population increase
- evidence of aggrandizers and religious elites
- religion focuses on world renewal practices based on movements of moon + sun
3
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HOPEWELL MOUND GROUP
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- large enclosure with 29 burial mounds of religious elites
- largest earthwork
- special role as central burial place for prestigious people
4
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OHIO HOPEWELL
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- mobile foragers
- moved foods + plants upland
5
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GOBEKLI TEPE
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- 9500 to 8000 BC
- artifact mound
- 1990s excavations reveal megalithic architecture
- decorative images of animals
- “overwhelming probability that the t-shaped is the 1st known monumental depiction of gods”
6
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JERICHO
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- 8500 BC
- wall + tower = some earliest evidence of town building
- rectangular home
- skulls
7
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AIN GHAZAL
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- 7200 - 6000 BC
- multiple rectangular homes = town
- population approx. 3000
- excavated 1980s & 1990s
8
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CATALHOYUK
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- 7200 - 6500 BC
- proto-urban town
- population approx. = 6000 to 8000
- burials and houses
- goddess figures
9
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MINOAN KNOSSOS
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- 2000 - 6500 BC
- ritual symbolism of bulls and snake goddess
10
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CAHOKIA MOUND 72
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- 1050 - 1350 AD
- mass burial
- lined with white sand
- 53 women between 5-30 with evidence of strangulation
- neatly placed bodies
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ANCIENT MAYA
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- “devine king” who rules with family
- classic period
- human sacrifice must be public to appease gods and establish authority
