ANTH 1413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Hunter-Gatherer, Linear Pottery Culture
28 Mar 2018
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Mesoamerica: few domesticated animals, several important domesticated crops, maize, beans, squash and bottle gourd. Mexican archaic (11,500-4,500 bp: central mexico, tehuacan valley caves, ca. 10,000-5,000 bp first domesticates: (cid:862)me(cid:454)i(cid:272)an e(cid:395)ui(cid:448)alent of the natufian(cid:863) From teosinte to maize: maize domesticated from grass teosinte, primitive traits, brittle rachis, two rows of cupules, single grain per cupules, may have originally been cultivated for the sweet stalk. Early agricultural period in the sw us: 3100 bp: maize-based agriculture in arizona, new mexico. Investments in agricultural production: canal construction at las capas (tucson, az). Major trends in the eastern us: domestication of indiginoues plants began during late archaic period (5,000-3,000 bp, easter agricultural complex. Independent of sw us or mexico: maize introduced by 2000 bp but not a significant factor in social development until 100 years later (ca 950 bp) Eastern agricultural complex: 6 big ones, chenopods (chenopodium, maygrass (phalaris, knotweed (polygonum, little barley (hordeum, sumpweed (iva, sunflower (helianthus annus)
