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| Reason for the scarcity of organics in the Eastern Woodlands |
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Definition
| Acidic soil and moisture. |
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| Diagnostic projectile points of Eastern Woodland Archaic in chronological order |
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| Hardened Stem, Dalton Fluted, Cumberland, Side-Corner, Bifurcate Base. |
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| Significance of Sloan site? |
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Definition
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| Describe timer period, occupation, and subsistence strategies of Icehouse Bottom site. |
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Definition
| Early Archaic. Base camp. Hickory nuts. |
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Term
| Importance of Koster site in Illinois River Valley? |
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Definition
| Best example of a site occupied through all 3 periods. |
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Term
| Two criteria used to identify sedentary settlment |
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Definition
| Substantial dwellings, cemeteries. |
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| Most important food of riverine Southeast adaptations |
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Definition
| Freshwater fish and shell fish. |
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| Significance of Windover site |
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Definition
| Preservation of organic human remains in a wet site, 5-6000BC. |
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| Explanation of bluff-top cemeteries under low mounds? |
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Definition
| Hereditary rights to resources. |
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| Significance of L'Anse Amour site in Labradour |
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Definition
| Land rose up. Melting ice preserved. |
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