HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Woodland Period, Iroquois, Matrilocal Residence
24 Jul 2020
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Focussing on the northeast, and southern ontario in particular, has shown us that outside of the areas of major cultural developments (like adena, hopewell, and. Mississippi), we see long- term continuity in lifeways and very slow cultural increasingly diverse small- scale ethnicities. We can see all this complexity in the late development from the archaic period through to the late woodland period. Yet, in the midst of this slow, incremental change, we can trace the emergence of. Woodland period because we have increasing amounts of evidence, which include oral traditions, material culture, and written documents from recently arrived. Local diversity may have existed before the late woodland period, but we do not have the evidence to show it. Our evidence for late woodland ethnic diversity must be used with care and caution. The best arguments have a range of types of evidence used together to support an observation. These two cultural groups are also linguistic families.
