ECONOM 1014 Quiz: Quiz 3 Study Guide
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The following is a list of terms/concepts and names that will help you focus your studies. For the quiz know these in the context of the assigned readings and class discussion/lecture. Big-game extinction: mastadons, ground sloths, giant armadillos, horses, megafaunal deer>8- 5kya: environmental changes=grassland plains shrinking/drying out; people populations growing. Bottle gourds and cotton; domesticated along the peruvian coast=early. No revolution, everything domesticated in a peaceful fashion. Willey=sites had no ceramics; chambers built in stages. Difference in burials: people treated rather similar, with the exception of age and sex. Perceramic monumental architecture: no carving/quarrying, fill in chambers with standardized bags of rubble=shicra, fill each chamber and level it out (like a layered cake); religious/meeting centers, no inhabitants. Preceramic agriculture: based on rainfall, no irrigation systems. La galgada site: mound was not rectangular, layers more rounded off; articulated. Interpretations of monuments: represent corporate activity, engaged in labor projects. Environmental stresses and role in abandonment of centers.
