ANT 2140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Snaketown, Historical Archaeology, Calabash

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 2140
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The biogeography of peruvian and amazonian domesticates: andes: beans potatoes, chili peppers, quinoa, peanuts, coca, cotton, gourds, amazon: manioc. Development of complexity in south america: late pleistocene/early holocene. Broad spectrum hunter-gatherer (band level: early-mid holocene. H-g/horticulturalists in andes (tribal: mid-late holocene. Chiefdom to state-level societies dependent upon intensive agriculture. Evidence for initial food production (pastoralism and agriculture: guitarrero cave, peru, 8500 bc- hg experiments with plant domesticates (later beans and chili peppers, nomadic pastoralism in the andes: telarmachay cave- domestication of camelids. 4300 bc; pachamachay cave, ayacucho 4500 bc- llamas, alpacas, squash. Know briefly who these complex societies were, what scales of complexity they showed and why (e. g chiefdom, state, etc. ), and what they were most famous (or infamous) for: Chavin, chavin de huantar: early horizon 900-200 bc; The biogeography of mesoamerican domesticates: dog, turkey, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, chili peppers, tobacco, cacao, avocadoes, beans, squash, maize.