ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Dawenkou Culture, Pewter, Grave Goods
Document Summary
Long houses: hard to tell from the posts where the longhouses start and end, used the iroquoian longhouses model and found it similar. Few large central sites, many small villages, no evidence of central political authority. Segregation of site functions and large monumental structures. At the end of the longshan (4000 bp) also marks the end of the middle jomon (major climate change that led to social change??) Cahokia settlement: 4 tiers of site. Immediately preceding the longshan in shandong province: mix of men and women having different things in their burials; sexual division of labour, male-female egalitarianism. Dawenkou grave goods: standard deviation is the description of variance from the mean, comparing different periods and different artifacts that were found in the graves, beads have huge standard deviation. Just before longshan, evidence of wealth accumulation and stratification. Longshan culture: 3 legged jars, black eggshell ware pottery (looks like it"s metal or pewter)
