ANTH 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mound Builders, Woodland House, Iva Annua
1 Dec 2016
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Not dated because it is a surface site. Sub features is highly predictable: north, south, east, and west horseshoe features. (piled up rocks). Evidence of fiber-tempered pottery, stone hoes, celts, and manos. Beginnings of distant trade (c. mo chert in burial mounds; copper and galena from. Great lakes chert that is not from the local region): possible trade networks developing, long scale trade, getting resources from far away and bringing it back to the local group. Plains woodland period (formative period) can be associated with basketmaker tradition in the southwest. 2,500 1,150 bp (500 bc 800 ad) Thick tone tempered pottery with cord wrapped stick impressions, dentates (nail impressed designs in pottery) and other impressed designs. Burial mounds with cremations, primary, and secondary burials (revisiting the burial, such as adding or removing people from the grave family plots) Also hunted and gathered: seeds, nuts, deer, raccoon, turkey.
