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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMANTH 250 Final Exam Prep Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Cahokia: Mound 72 - ✔️✔️-Originally thought to link Cahokian, Mississippian and
Mesoamerican culture
-Evidence of large scale, mass burial
--Women were thought to be the predominant inhabitants of the mound
--Osteological analysis shows that there are men in the mound, but there is still a large
amount of women who were killed and buried
--Is thought to be a male burial with non-local women brought in
-->Possibly war captives
-->While there is evidence of constant warfare in societies such as the Maya, Mississippian
warfare is far less frequent
--In the more important smaller burials, there are often singular pairs of men and women
Cahokia: Monks Mound - ✔️✔️-is the central mound at the Cahokia site.
-It has intersecting and cross-cutting baselines.
-Biggest mound in north america
Moundville - ✔️✔️
Chaco Canyon - ✔️✔️-900-1150 AD
-northern New Mexico
-power travels Matrilineally
-Great Houses: ritual spaces & elite residences (pueblo bonita = biggest)
-Great Kivas: private places of ritual
-had long distance trade with Mayans and Aztec
Pueblo Bonito - ✔️✔️(Chaco canyon)
-largest Chaco settlement
-cultural center of the Chaco world
-conducted trade with Mesoamerica
Fort San Juan de Joara - ✔️✔️-1567-1568, short lived
-earliest spanish colonial attempt in the interior of the US
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-started off as a military fort, Spanish wanted to transition it into a colony
-wanted to establish an interior land route b/w mexico and the SC coast, although they
underestimated the distance b/w the two
-was burned along with other forts in two days, one Spaniard who married a native woman
was spared & told to heed warning to other Spaniards trying to colonize the land
Hohokam - ✔️✔️-300 AD
-directly before Chaco culture
-ancestors to modern Pueblo
--diff. lifestyle and architecture, ritual part of residences
--great houses are recorded, although rare in Hohokam society
-Hohokam & Chaco social orgs. differ greatly
--both have earlier social complexity than southeast
--both have ascribed status
--Hohokam had intensive maize agriculture
Poverty Point - ✔️✔️-late archaic site in Memphis, TN in Mississippi river valley
-hunter-gatherer-fishers
-Mound A built in 1 month
-largest site of its time
-no stone or ceramic vessels, but there were ceramic objects w/ unknown purpose
-multiple bands came together to build here
Topper site - ✔️✔️-paleoindian site in South Carolina
-before clovis point culture
-know that the agreed-upon date for the site is from 16,000 BP, while Goodyear, the
professor excavating the site, has claimed as early as 50,000 year BP
Cerutti Mastodon - ✔️✔️-130,000 BP
-found mastodon bones here broken in unnatural way
-may mean homo erectus was in NA before homo sapiens (heavily disputed)
-evidence furthered by "crafter" stones w/ chip marks, possibly what was used to break
mastodon bones, concrete evidence of this is lacking
Jamestown - ✔️✔️-1st successful, permanent English colony in North America, est. May 1607
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