ANTHROP 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Civilian Conservation Corps, Ian Hodder, Serpent Mound
27 Jan 2017
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Anthro 3401: obsessed with collection of detail/facts rather than questions of antiquity, c. b. Moore: from 1892 1894 excavated st. johns shell middens in florida and later shell mound, georgia, spent over 20 years investigating and creating typologies and creating categories for artifacts and mounds, f. w. Putnam: harvard trained zoologist, later turned archaeology, systematic excavations revealed 3 distinct mound building cultures, established department of anthropology at uc berkeley, great serpent mound preservation. Descriptive-historical: nels nelson, upper rio grande valley, nm, galisteo basin and chaco canyon, pioneered stratigraphic excavations, categorized ceramics into 7 categories in sw area, a. v. Kidder: worked in sw, developed a 2,000-culture chronology based upon excavations at pecos. Poverty point objects: work projects administration (wpa) and civilian conservation corps (ccc, kentucky, georgia, alabama, etc, look at fort ancient and hopewell societies, goal was to put people to work, not do archaeology.
