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ANT 2100 Introduction to Archaeology Final FSU Mehta Questions and Answers 100% Pass What did the Trobriand Islanders do? - Kula Gift Exchange Describe the Kula Gift Exchange - Gifts were given in exchange for political prestige How were the Kula Gift Exchange gifts different? - -There were di...

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ANT 2100 Introduction to
Archaeology Final FSU Mehta
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What did the Trobriand Islanders do? - ✔✔Kula Gift Exchange


Describe the Kula Gift Exchange - ✔✔Gifts were given in exchange for political prestige


How were the Kula Gift Exchange gifts different? - ✔✔-There were different meanings embedded in the

objects


-they were a connection to the people


-weren't just things


-represented social bonds and obligations


-inalienability


-convergence of spirit and object


you can never separate the thing from the giver


What was Potlatch? - ✔✔A ceremonial feast practiced by the North American Indian peoples of the

northwest coast where possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.

For political, religious, social prestige.




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,What becomes an integral part of the economy as societies change from egalitarian bands to ranked

societies? - ✔✔The formal trade of exotics becomes an integral part of the economy


Human societies create two main types of trade systems: - ✔✔Direct acquisition


Down-the-line trade


Direct acquisition - ✔✔1. You go to the natural source of a raw material.


2. Extract the material.


3. Exchange goods or services for it or receive an artifact or raw material as a gift.


Down-the-line trade - ✔✔1. People acquire a raw material from people who have immediate access to it.


2. These people trade it to others who live farther away from the source.


3. They may in turn trade it to people living even farther away.


Who were the Mound Builders (Mississippian Culture)? - ✔✔-The various cultures collectively termed

"Mound Builders" were inhabitants of eastern United States AD 800-1500 constructed various styles of

earthen mounds for religious, ceremonial, burial, and elite residential purposes.


-Mississippian societies engaged in intensive village-based maize horticulture


-village-based


What is Cahokia? - ✔✔A Mound Builder city close to modern day St. Louis, Missouri.


-3.5 square miles


-80 mounds


-was 6 square miles


-had 120 mounds




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, What are the Carson Mounds (Carson Site,Carson-Montgomery)? - ✔✔-A large Mississippian culture

archaeological site located near Clarksdale, Mississippi in the Yazoo Basin.


-Only a few large earthen mounds are still present at Carson to this day.


What mound sites should you know? - ✔✔-Cahokia


-Carson Mounds


-Moundville


What is chert? - ✔✔-The single most important and widely used stone in nearly every part of the world

was chert, also known as flint


-Artifacts of chert excavated in an archaeological context are invaluable to archaeologists; they are often

the only surviving source of information about prehistoric cultures.


What is lithic? - ✔✔of the nature of or relating to stone


Burlington Chert - ✔✔Burlington Chert is not geologically from Carson, but it was found there. This

indicated there were large networks and it was brought from very far away.


Residential v. nonresidential groups - ✔✔-Residential groups appear in the archaeological record as

households and villages.


-Nonresidential groups are manifested archaeologically through the use of symbols, ceremonies,

mythologies, or insignias of membership.


4 broad areas of human social and political behavior - ✔✔-gender


-kinship


-social status


-trade




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