ANTH 2122H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shell Jewelry, Lithic Reduction, Hand Axe
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 2122 29/01/16 lecture 4: social complexity and complex people in north america. Hunter gatherers: highly mobile, small bands, egalitarian, simple material culture/cultural practices. 2 hectares and used by between 100-150 people year round, exploited range of fish, mussels, nuts, and weedy grass including marsh elder. Exotic exchange systems: appear across the east between 7000 and 8000 ya marginella shell bead from the atlantic coasts, types of slate used for making banner stones . Benton interaction sphere: middle archaic, oversized benton points, turkey-tail point made from fort payne chert helton phase: middle to late archaic, copper, galena, found in occupation layer at koster. Complex hunter gatherers: does the construction of massive earthworks like poverty point require complex social organization planning, labour pool, food surpluses. Mortuary complexes red ocher mortuary complex: possibly related to benton exchange, use of rec ocher (iron oxide) in burials, illinois, western indiana, ohio,
