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

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