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ANT 2100 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY FINALFSU MEHTA
What did the Trobriand Islanders do? - Answers-Kula Gift Exchange
Describe the Kula Gift Exchange - Answers-Gifts were given in exchange for political
prestige
How were the Kula Gift Exchange gifts different? - Answers--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? - Answers-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.
What becomes an integral part of the economy as societies change from egalitarian
bands to ranked societies? - Answers-The formal trade of exotics becomes an integral
part of the economy
Human societies create two main types of trade systems: - Answers-Direct acquisition
Down-the-line trade
Direct acquisition - Answers-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 - Answers-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)? - Answers--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? - Answers-A Mound Builder city close to modern day St. Louis,
Missouri.
-3.5 square miles
-80 mounds
-was 6 square miles
-had 120 mounds
What are the Carson Mounds (Carson Site,Carson -Montgomery)? - Answers--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? - Answers--Cahokia
-Carson Mounds
-Moundville
What is chert? - Answers--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? - Answers-of the nature of or relating to stone
Burlington Chert - Answers-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 - Answers--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 - Answers--gender
-kinship
-social status
-trade
Moundville, Alabama AD 1000-1450 - Answers--one of the best known ceremonial
centers, having 30 earthen mounds, it was a bustling ritual center
-large amounts of exotic material
-inequality
reciprocity - Answers--non-market exchange of goods or labour ranging from direct
barter (immediate exchange) to forms of gift exchange where a return is eventually
expected (delayed exchange) as in the exchange of birthday gifts.
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