ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Relative Dating, Anglo-Irish Big House, Geologic Time Scale
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Lecture 17 - those who come before us. Communication between these colonies involved runners: hohokam, lived in a hot desert environment, so made pit houses which would keep them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. They had an irrigation system by digging canals. They lived spread out from one another: ancestral pueblo (anaszi, chaco canyon (a huge city/ village with many houses/ rooms) was the centre the center of the anaszi community. The great kiva was a cultural room where ceremonies took place. There was a massive temperature regulating structure which was built to keep the temperature steady from night to day. The people went further to get resources to build the houses, and since they had no wheelbarrows it required manual labor. This show coordination and organization, where there must have been a leader to overlook the projects. Population sizes were increasing, so cooking was done in large quantities.
