ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Santa Barbara City College, Ancestral Puebloans, Hohokam
Document Summary
Going back to before agriculture to hunter-gatherer societies. Over the course of the archaic period, people start to notice that there are different types of seeds and nuts. Often associated with village sites, but not necessarily. Maize and squash 3,400 years ago from highland mexico. Maize and squash by 3,400 years ago. Pit houses and stored maize 2,950 years ago. People still hunt jackrabbits and deer here. Ancestral pueblo (we will mostly be talking about the basket maker groups) Largest and most complex archaeological site of the hohokam. No evidence of poverty, hence the name. If you have external storage pits, individual houses do not have control over who has access to those resources, but if they are inside then they do. For thousands of years, people had been bison hunters here. We can see the shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture. Oldest evidence of the use of ground stone in food preparation.
