ANTHROP 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Canine Tooth, Calusa, Cornmeal

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3350
• Professor: Richard Yerkes

Document Summary

There were no hopewell merchant princes sustained by agricultural surplus: like most american indians, hopewell tribal leaders gained prestige by giving gifts to others. Anthro 3350 into the ohio valley from mexico, during the middle woodland period but early maize needed a 180 220 day growing season. Ad 900 (at the end of the late. Woodland period) that maize was grown in gardens along with squash, gourds and sunflowers. Domesticated beans were not grown in the ohio valley until after. Hopewell diets: reduced birth spacing (ndt) also occurred in late archaic period (shell mounds, increase in number of cavities, farming stress markers not evidence until after ad 900, no fortified villages, less evidence for warfare in hopewell tribes. Hopewell adoption ritual, exchange, and peace negotiations: atalatls to calumets ( peace pipes ) robert l. hall, there remains no more, except to speak of the calumet. There is nothing more mysterious or more respected among them.