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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMANTH 250 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100% PASS)
Cahokia - ✔️✔️-1000-1350 AD
-center of mississippian world?
--maize agriculture
--religon
--platform mounds
--extensive trade
--riverine systems
--social stratification
Moundville - ✔️✔️-Northern Alabama
-1100-1450 AD
Chaco Canyon - ✔️✔️-AD 900-1150
-most famous of the Pueblo ancestors
-pueblo bonita
-Great Houses: multi-purpose constructions (residence for an elite few, sacred spaces, and
storage)
-Kivas and small settlements
-Great kivas: sipapu
--Private, ritual activities
Poverty Point - ✔️✔️-Northeastern Louisiana
-1700-1100 BC
The Historic Iroquois - ✔️✔️-archaic and woodland phases
-no mississippian expression
-1000 BC to AD 1100 (Fagan)
Maize - ✔️✔️-leads to social complexity bc it is a very productive dietary staple
Corn Mother - ✔️✔️-Grandmother figure who grows maize for the family
-two male children that want to know where it comes from and they follow her to a hut that
she gets corn from
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-they see that she is shaking the corn from her body
-they kill the corn mother, so they have to grow their own and its only available twice a year
Teosinte - ✔️✔️-may be the wild ancestor of maize (species that the native americans started
with before domesticating it into maize)
hominy - ✔️✔️-at Moundville
-is nixtamalized
-involves drying then grinding
--use of mortar and pestle
-soak maize in bitter solution of lye/woodash
-long cooking periods
house societies - ✔️✔️-the "house" owns materials, not individuals
-status of the house
-passed down to descendants
-exogamous
--martrilineage
-kinship and political relationships are centered around membership in the house-- acts as
corporate entity
-ex: Iroquois
exogamy - ✔️✔️-marrying and having relationships outside of your specified group
-helps w/ the spread of info and the exchange of genes
infographics - ✔️✔️-targeted specific audience
-concise (only has necessary info)
-has a clear point
-infographics targeted to the public can bridge the divide b/w anthropology academia and the
general public
posole - ✔️✔️-a different way to make maize
-knowing different ways to make maize shows how info and foodways spread to other
regions
jimsonweed - ✔️✔️-a psychotropic drug
peyote - ✔️✔️-a psychotropic drug
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