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43 Cards in this Set
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Pre-Clovis
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culture, before 11,500 RCYBP
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Paleoindian
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culture, 11,500 RCYBP
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Archaic 1
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culture, early holocene in New World, 6000B.C. to 1500-1000 B.C.
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Ceramic period
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culture, 2,000 RCYBP
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Historic
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culture, 250 RCYBP
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End of Pleistocene
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11,000 years ago
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Holocene
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8,000-3,000 years ago (North America)
12,000 BP - present (worldwide) |
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Archaic 2
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New World, 6000 B.C. to 1500-1000 B.C.
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Mesolithic
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Old World, period of hunter-gatherers in Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia between end of Pleistocene and introduction of farming. Middle Stone Age
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Squier and Davis
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Mapped Hopewell mounds
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Binford
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Continuem of Hunters and gatherers: Forager ----> Collectors
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Woodburn
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Continuem of Hunters and gatherers: Immediate return
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Bettinger
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Continuem of Hunters and gatherers: Processors---> Travelers
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G.P. Murdock
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?????
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Common cultural traits of Mesoamerican civs
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vigesimal (20) #s, solar calendar, architecture, writing, ball game, religion, pantheon of gods, substitance =CRON, beans, squash; dress, trade, technology
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Olmec
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foundation culture, Mexico, many ideas taken from them.
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Maya
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not unified under one king, wrote in long count, city-states
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Toltec
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not much knowm. Prob formed by people leaving Teotihucan and moving towards Mexico. + Maya= Chichen 'Itza
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Woodland period
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1,000 B.C. Moundbuilding/ hopewell flourishing
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Earthworks
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mounds inside
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Mounds
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burials inside
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Travel or trade
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Most likely travel:
-no hopewell artifacts elsewhere -travel prob by river systems |
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Seip Earthworks
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200 burials, possible craft houses, hopewell
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Small streams
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mot much predates late Archaic
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High Order Streams
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Paleoindian/early archaic, skip late/mid archaic
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Alluvial fans
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many late/mid archaic or older
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Mississippian Time period
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900-1,500 A.D.
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Aztec
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Human sacrifice came to its peak. 3 groups unified under one king
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Residential mobility
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H-Gs whole group can get up and go at any time
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types of storage
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-insurance caches
-temporary caches -seasonally enhanced -high tech specialised seasonal |
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Storage correlates with:
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Population and enviornment
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Population jumps are associated with:
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-specialisation
-specialisation + storage -husbandry -domestication |
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Mesolithic
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-1st "modern" cemetaries
-origins of agriculture |
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Clovis
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-11,200 to 10,900 BC
-"fluted" points |
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Lepenski Vir
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-"Iron gates" = gorges
-H-Gs -camps/fishing camps -Vlasac site (houses) |
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date of Lepenski Vir and associated sites
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11,000 to 5,000 BC
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Catolhoyak
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-Ian Hodder
-no streets -4,500 years older than pyramids -burials under houses -obsidian, ceramics -bull shrines |
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Mississipian
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Mound builders
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Cahokia, Il
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mound builders site
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Spiro, OK
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Another mounds site
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Etowah, GA
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yet another mounds site
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Averbuch, TN
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more mounds
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Cactus hill
Meadowcroft |
pre-clovis
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