ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Eridu, Social Inequality, Beehive Tomb
10 Dec 2020
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The draper site (a late prehistoric iroquoian village in southern ontario) Generally the north-eastern groups were organized less hierarchically than the societies of the southeast. Leaders were chosen largely for their skills in settling disputes and organizing military expeditions and for their ceremonial knowledge. Leadership roles focused more on achievement than on ascription; the latter pattern was more common among the southeastern groups. Hunting, fishing and collecting continued to be the main subsistence activities. After ad 700, major changes in settlement pattern, subsistence, and social organization occurred in the great lakes region. By ad 1100, maize agriculture had become a more significant part of the subsistence regime. After ad 1300, the stockade villages were occupied on a more permanent basis. Larger villages potentially formed through the nucleation of several smaller communities. Sweat baths, cooking hearths, pits, storage cubicles, and benches all commonly set in longhouses. Draper village underwent five expansions with maximum population being 1800-
