HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Poverty Point Culture, Chenopodium, Projectile Point
24 Jul 2020
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Scholars have divided the archaic period into three parts: early (c9000-c8000 bp or c7000-c6000 bc, note that some classifications actually start the early archaic period a thousand years earlier, and include paleoindians in the category of early. Specializations in the economy led to the domestication in the united states. Southeast of four plants sunflower, squash, marshelder, and chenopods making the united states southeast one of the few places in the world that saw the emergence of agriculture. However, technological and artistic development did not require practicing agriculture, as watson break and poverty point make clear. We see archaic hunter-gatherer towns and cities emerging at places where people can harvest enough food to feed the large population, usually where both fresh-water and sea resources are available. Holocene (began around 11. 700 years ago- present) in this time period, we see climatic and environmental conditions settling into patterns that we know today.
