ANTH 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mississaugas Of The New Credit First Nation, Smallpox, Digging Stick
9 Dec 2014
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Topic: woodland period (1000 bc - 1600 ad) Most known about this period: more people, more settlements, written accounts by. Central themes: (1) pottery (ceramics): methods of manufacture, uses, designs, i. e. punctate, Dentate stamp, cord-wrapped impressed, cross-hatching, hypotheses on use of designs: method of carrying water. Replaced skins bags etc: method for cooking too that wasn"t available before, mystery that"s never been resolved; anecdote: guelph native women"s circle. Common situations: europeans flocked here, found artifacts and collected some of them. Items around 400 years old in box: clay beads, arrow heads, hammers, human visages, scrapers, punctate: use stick/bone to puncture hole in top of pot, dente stamp: item w/teeth along edge of it. Another method: ball of clay work it into a shape. Key: fire it to make it hard: mccluskey decorative motifs, two categories really, these are artistic representations: no significance beyond pot makers desire to design something.
