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| Neolithic farming settlement in Germany, made linear pottery 5,300-4,000 BC |
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| developed out of indigenous forager roots, they made heavy use of wild plant foods. |
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| Mogollon area 2000-500 BC |
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| 500 BC- 200 AD sedentary, corn and the atatl |
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| Late Archaic in the Southwest |
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| (500 B.C. - A.D. 600) No pottery, reliance on corn and squash, storage pits, pit-houses |
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| (A.D. 600 - 750) Plainware, Beans, Pithouses, This is when pottery began |
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| kiva-round ceremonial structure, the kivas would be adjacent to dwellings, ex: Mesa verde |
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| rapid population, ex: Chaco canyon, Above ground villages, Pueblo bonito at chaco canyon-had over 800 rooms, Had a stairway leading up to the man made road, Pottery is abundant “corrugated” pottery |
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| AD 1150-1300, Chaco Canyon abandoned, major settlement shift to cliffs of Mesa Verde |
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| AD 1300-1400, more abandonments, Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde both abandoned |
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| Mogollon Sequence: Pithouse |
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| AD 200-1000, pithouses and serious use of corn, first pottery is brown |
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| Mogollon Sequence: Pueblo |
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| AD 1000-1300, above-ground architecture, sophisticated pottery: Mimbres (most beatiful pottery made in SW), great kivas |
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| Hohokam sequence: Early Preclassic: 200-750 AD |
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| 200-750 A.D., plain buff colored pottery, reliance on corn and squash, Pit houses, arrow points begin to replace atlatl. |
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| Hohokam sequence: Late Preclassic |
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| A.D. 750-1150 Snake Town (Haury investigated)- pit houses, canal systems 25-30 miles- tapped Guila River, ball courts, |
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| Hohokam sequence: Classic Period |
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| A.D. 1150-1400 above ground structures, chiefdom level political organization shown by elevated platform w/ structures around (suggests hierarchical power) , polychrome pottery |
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| Eastern North America sequence: Formative |
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| sedentary in the Late Archaic 2000-500 BC |
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| Eastern North America sequence: Woodland |
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| post 500 BC, mounds, greater reliance on domesticates dated to 1000BC in some areas |
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| Postclassic Pueblo IV , latecomers that arrive from the north |
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| Postclassic Pueblo IV , latecomers that arrive from the north |
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| descendant of hohokam: most likely descendants of the Hohokam, used baskets for storage, not involved with elaborate culture like hohokam, less politically complex |
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| descendant of hohokam:most likely descendants of the Hohokam, used baskets for storage, not involved with elaborate culture like hohokam, less politically complex |
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| increased reliance on domestics, burial mounds, cremation |
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| East North American cultures that all built mounds (Adena, Hopoewell -> Mississippian) |
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| 500 B.C.- A.D. 400 - Burial mounds, earthworks, long distance trade |
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| A.D. 1,000-1,500 - intensive maize horticulture, platform mounds |
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| series of artistic motifs and associated religious beliefs of Mississippian culture |
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| 1,200 - 400 B.C. - massive stone heads, earthen pyramids, |
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| 1,400 B.C.-250 A.D. El Mirador (300 B.C.-A.D. 250) massive city 6 square miles- monumental structures, large residential compounds, long distance trade |
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| A.D. 250-850 - political structure of multiple competing kingdoms, divine kingship, astronomy, stone pyramid structures |
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| Capital - Tula - ball courts, sculpted columns, Chacmool figures |
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| A.D. 1,200-1521 derived from chichimecas, chinampas agriculture, human sacrifice, terror, conquest |
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| ceramic site investigated by John Rick, center of religious cult, sinister motifs, use of hallucinogens |
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| 8000-1500 BC, before the invention of pottery/ceramics |
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| 2700 -2200 BC drought and political chaos |
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| 1600-1000 BC New burial procedures: mummification with bodies in rock cut tombs |
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| Most famous burial recovery |
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| King Tut 1300 BC he was not recovered from a pyramid < excavators chiseled into the natural rocks |
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| semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico and southwestern US |
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| professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec empire |
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| AD 1000-1475, capital city was Chan Chan, walled city with adobe walls, taken over by Incas |
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| preceramic civilization, pyramids, irrigation, avocados, beans, cotton, possible quipu |
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| on the north coast of Peru |
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| largest prehistoric state in N. World |
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| 3100-2334 BC Mesopotamia, in Ur, military organization, linear cultural sequence |
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| The indigenous people of the valley of Mexico who were the leaders of the Aztecs |
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| southern highlands, 11,000 ft in Andes. AD600-1000. Precursor to Incas |
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| civilization/culture of the Andes in Peru that utilized terrace agriculture |
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