ANTH 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pinson Mounds, Tumulus, Eastern Agricultural Complex
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Study guide exam 4: native americans were mostly hunter-gatherers. Early archaic:11500-7500bp: happened at the end of the younger dryas, widespread throughout this area, little evidence of cultural complexity. Icehouse bottom, tn: helped develop the chronology for eastern north america, evidence of textiles. Corner notched points (ca 10750 cal bp: found at 117 locations. Koster, il: projectile points found in sequence, dog burials, dog buried as if it was a person. Middle archaic: 7500-5000 bp, altithermal (7500-5000 bp, changes in vegetation/climate, lake levels lowered. Shell mound archaic: st. petersburg, fl. Monumentality: burials inside the shell rings. Watson brake mounds, la: circular shell mound with dead buried inside, giant shell stonehenge, look for alignments, a series of triangles. Caney mounds, la: mounds also made with triangular geometry. Late archaic (5000-3000 bp: widespread distribution, new technology- atlatl weights/hooks. Mill branch, georgia: houses- small and covered with brush, sometimes square, sometimes circular.
